Mutahar Ali

About Me

I am a first-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.

Research Interests

• Security and Privacy
• Systems and Networking

Research Experience

• 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: Dr. Ihsan A. Qazi, Dr. Zafar A. Qazi, Dr. Agha A. Raza

• Undergraduate Research Assistant (Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022)
  Networks and Systems Group (NSG), LUMS
  Advisors: Dr. Ihsan A. Qazi, Dr. Zafar A. Qazi

Publications

• Understanding Users’ S&P Attitudes Towards Conversational AI Platforms
  Mutahar Ali, Arjun Arunasalam, Habiba Farrukh
  IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P), 2025 (To Appear)

Pre-prints

• 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
  Preprint on arXiv

Teaching

• Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • CS-190: Security & Privacy (Spring 2025)
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, LUMS
  • CS 382: Network-Centric Computing (Spring 2023, Spring 2022)

Awards

• Graduated LUMS with an Award of Distinction (2023)
• Students as Co-Researchers Grant (2022)
• Dean’s Honor List (2019-2022)

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