Soroush Karami is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Computer Science, where he is being advised by Jason Polakis. He works on computer privacy and security. His focus is on investigating online threats that users face, and designing security techniques to provide a more secure digital environment for everyone. The goals of this work are understanding Web and browser's privacy leakage and securing users. He received his M.Sc. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (Iran) and his B.Sc. degree from Shiraz University of Technology (Iran).

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Feb 24, 2021	Paper won the Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS'21.
Oct 09, 2020	Successfully passed the preliminary examination (Ph.D. Thesis Proposal).
Aug 07, 2020	Paper accepted at NDSS'21.
May 07, 2020	Awarded from Google for finding a security bug in Chrome browser. Bug Bounty Award CVE-2020-6473
Apr 02, 2020	Awarded from Facebook for demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities. Bug Bounty Award
Jan 31, 2020	Awarded a travel grant to attend and give a talk at NDSS'20 Symposium.
Dec 08, 2019	Paper accepted at NDSS'20.
Sep 13, 2017	Awarded Peter and Deborah Wexler Graduate Student Scholarship.
Aug 25, 2017	Joined to BITS laboratory.
Aug 15, 2017	Started Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Aug 13, 2017	Moved from Tehran to Chicago!
Mar 5, 2017	Accepted a full funded Ph.D. offer from University of Illinois at Chicago.

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