Ph.D. Candidate @ UVA
Dept. of Computer Science
mshoaib [at] virginia [dot] edu
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Professor Wajih Ul Hassan, where I am a member of the DART Lab. My research broadly focuses on systems security, attack forensics, and threat detection. I recently worked on LLM security during a research internship at Sophos, applying my work to practical security operations.
My interests span Emerging Systems Security, Intent-Based Threat Detection, Program Analysis, and Attack Forensics. I build resilient systems that capture adversarial intent semantically rather than through brittle pattern matching, apply programming languages research to safer abstractions for security logic, and study the security and forensic challenges of emerging platforms such as AR/VR.