Mutahar Ali | University of California, Irvine (UCI)

About Me

I am a second-year PhD student in the Computer Science department at University of California, Irvine (UCI) advised by Prof. Habiba Farrukh. Before joining UCI, I was a Research Associate in the Computer Science department at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where I also earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, graduating in 2023.

Graduate Student Researcher (Sep. 2024 - Present)
Security and Privacy of Emerging Computing Technologies (SPECT) Lab, UCI
Advisor: Prof. Habiba Farrukh
Full-time Research Associate (Jul. 2023 - Aug. 2024)
Internet and Data Systems Lab (IDSL), LUMS
Advisors: Prof. Ihsan A. Qazi, Prof. Zafar A. Qazi, Prof. Agha A. Raza
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022)
Networks and Systems Group (NSG), LUMS
Advisors: Prof. Ihsan A. Qazi, Prof. Zafar A. Qazi

Understanding Users’ S&P Attitudes Towards Conversational AI Platforms
Mutahar Ali, Arjun Arunasalam, Habiba Farrukh
IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P), 2025
Warping the Edge: Where Instant Mobility in 5G Meets Stateful Applications
Mukhtiar Ahmad, Faaiq Bilal, Mutahar Ali, Muhammad Ali Nawazish, Amir Salman, Shazer Ali, Fawad Ahmad, Zafar Ayyub Qazi
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2025

PeekXR: Understanding Privacy Leakages from Eye Gaze in Extended Reality
Chuyang Peng, Mutahar Ali, Habiba Farrukh
ACM MobiSys, 2025
Best Poster Runner Up

Graduate Teaching Assistant
- CS-190: Security & Privacy (Spring 2025)
- CS-141: Concepts in Programming Languages (Fall 2025)
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, LUMS
- CS 382: Network-Centric Computing (Spring 2023, Spring 2022)