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Zain ul Abi Din
dblp:241/6211
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5ranked-venue papers
3as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-6964-9890ORCID · reported
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Security and privacy · 3 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-authorDatabases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | FP-Rowhammer: DRAM-Based Device Fingerprinting
Hari Venugopalan, Kaustav Goswami 0002, Zain ul Abi Din, Jason Lowe-Power, Samuel T. King, Zubair Shafiq |
AsiaCCS | 3 |
| 2025 | MerRec: A Large-scale Multipurpose Mercari Dataset for Consumer-to-Consumer Recommendation Systems
Lichi Li, Zain ul Abi Din, Zhen Tan 0001, Sam London, Tianlong Chen 0001, Ajay H. Daptardar |
KDD (1) | 2 |
| 2021 | Doing good by fighting fraud: Ethical anti-fraud systems for mobile paymentsabstractApp builders commonly use security challenges, a form of step-up authentication, to add security to their apps. However, the ethical implications of this type of architecture has not been studied previously.In this paper, we present a large-scale measurement study of running an existing anti-fraud security challenge, Boxer, in real apps running on mobile devices. We find that although Boxer does work well overall, it is unable to scan effectively on devices that run its machine learning models at less than one frame per second (FPS), blocking users who use inexpensive devices.With the insights from our study, we design Daredevil, a new anti-fraud system for scanning payment cards that works well across the broad range of performance characteristics and hardware configurations found on modern mobile devices. Daredevil reduces the number of devices that run at less than one FPS by an order of magnitude compared to Boxer, providing a more equitable system for fighting fraud.In total, we collect data from 5,085,444 real devices spread across 496 real apps running production software and interacting with real users. Zain ul Abi Din, Hari Venugopalan, Adam Wushensky, Steven Liu, Samuel T. King |
SP | 1 |
| 2020 | PERCIVAL: Making In-Browser Perceptual Ad Blocking Practical with Deep Learning
Zain ul Abi Din, Panagiotis Tigas, Samuel T. King, Benjamin Livshits |
USENIX ATC | 1 |
| 2020 | Boxer: Preventing fraud by scanning credit cards
Zain ul Abi Din, Hari Venugopalan, Jaime Park, Andy Li, Weisu Yin, Haohui Mai, Yong Jae Lee, Steven Liu, Samuel T. King |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |