Alisha Ukani
Postdoctoral Scholar at Center for an Informed Public
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlisha Ukani is a PhD candidate and systems/privacy researcher at UC San Diego with 12 years of software engineering experience focused on empirical measurement of online security and privacy. She has interned at Google (multiple projects including Privacy Sandbox work that led to a WWW 2024 paper) and Brave, and has shipped production-scale infrastructure and tooling during internships at Google and Slack. Her work blends systems engineering, data-driven measurement, and browser security—ranging from detecting fingerprinting on auth pages to diagnosing network availability anomalies and proposing practical fixes. At Harvard she built low-latency VM snapshotting prototypes and led high-traffic web infrastructure improvements, demonstrating an ability to move between deep research and production impact. Based in San Diego, she pairs rigorous academic training with a demonstrable track record of turning empirical findings into deployable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Arts (A.B.) with honors and cum laude in field Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) with honors and cum laude in field Computer Science at Harvard University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (24)
php10
hopper10
hacklang9
hhvm9
virtual-machine9
spotify9
jest-environment8
chromeless8
puppeteer7
chrome6
integration-testing6
python6
technical-writing4
preprocessing4
fingerprinting4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alisha/music-intros
Jan 2015 - Feb 2020
Give it an artist, get a quick introduction to that artist
Contributions:30 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
javascriptartist
alisha/sestina
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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