Umar Iqbal
Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolUmar Iqbal is an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a researcher with eight years' experience focused on web security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and malware detection. He completed a PhD at the University of Iowa after internships at Apple, Mozilla, Brave, and Microsoft, blending academic rigor with industry-facing privacy research. His work spans building practical defenses and evaluating privacy risks in real-world systems, informed by hands-on roles from research assistantships to product-oriented internships. Based in Missouri, he brings a track record of translating cutting-edge research into deployable insights and collaborations across academia and major tech companies. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained engagement with both browser vendors and platform teams during internships, giving him unique visibility into how privacy features are adopted in practice.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, Urdu
Github Skills (35)
filterlist10
vector-database10
adblock10
blocking10
llm10
filter10
fine-tuning10
ublock-origin10
cookie10
application10
artifact9
disconnect9
http-archive9
gpt9
data-structures9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uiowa-irl/AdGraph
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 80 pushes in 3 months
uiowa-irl/FP-Inspector
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Artifact release for our IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 paper entitled Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
behaviorssymposiumbrowserprivacysecurity
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