I am a PhD candidate in the USER Lab at the University of Tennessee, advised by Dr. Scott Ruoti. I investigate how users manage cryptographic keys across different systems, with the goal of identifying generalizable design principles for future usable and secure key management systems.
News
- 09/2026: Passed my Ph.D. proposal
- 08/2026:
- Two papers accepted to ACM CCS 2026:
- “Setting Up TLS Authentication Was Hell”: A Usability Study of Client Certificate Authentication
- A Multi-Month Study of Git Commit Signing
- Attended USENIX Security 2026 in Baltimore, MD
- Two papers accepted to ACM CCS 2026:
- 01/2025: Started my PhD at UTK
- 09/2024: Completed my MSc degree
- 02/2024: Selected to participate in the Summer School on Real-World Crypto and Privacy in Vodice, Croatia
- 07/2023: #ChosenforChevening
- 10/2022: Completed Nigeria’s mandatory National Youth Service