Soroush Karami
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Chicago, Illinois 60607

   
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).
Publications
Unleash the Simulacrum: Shifting Browser Realities for Robust Extension-Fingerprinting Prevention
Soroush Karami, Faezeh Kalantari, Mehrnoosh Zaeifi, Xavier J. Maso, Erik Trickel, Panagiotis Ilia, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupé, and Jason Polakis
31st USENIX Security Symposium, 2022.
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The Dangers of Human Touch: Fingerprinting Browser Extensions through User Actions
Konstantinos Solomos, Panagiotis Ilia, Soroush Karami, Nick Nikiforakis and Jason Polakis
31st USENIX Security Symposium, 2022.
Pool-Party: Exploiting Browser Resource Pools as Side-Channels for Web Tracking
Peter Snyder, Soroush Karami, Benjamin Livshits, and Hamed Haddadi
arXiv:2112.06324 December 2021.
Awakening the Web's Sleeper Agents: Misusing Service Workers for Privacy Leakage
Soroush Karami, Panagiotis Ilia, and Jason Polakis
28th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'21), 2021.
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Distinguished Paper Award
Carnus: Exploring the Privacy Threats of Browser Extension Fingerprinting
Soroush Karami, Panagiotis Ilia, Konstantinos Solomos and Jason Polakis
27th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'20), 2020.
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