Yuvraj Agarwal
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Software and Societal Systems Department
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yuvraj Agarwal is an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, and the director of SynergyLabs. His lab focuses on research at the intersection of hardware and software systems, and in the recent past his group has focused on energy efficiency, security and privacy as a central research theme. In additional to publications at competitive conferences (MobiSys, Ubicomp, SenSys, IPSN, NSDI, USENIX, Oakland, BuildSys, CHI), SynergyLab specifically strives to build and deploy systems that have real world impact and benefit society. His group leads research around smart buildings, systems for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), privacy and security, and have also had significant impact in mobile computing and energy efficient computing. Several of the systems that Yuvraj and his students have built have been deployed at scale on the UCSD and CMU campuses. The systems that he has built for studying privacy on mobile platforms have been used by hundreds of thousands of users and have had significant industrial impact. Yuvraj is a member of the IEEE, ACM and USENIX.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering,University of California at San Diego
M.S. in Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine
B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Pune University
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Applications of security and privacy
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- distributed systems
- embedded systems
- energy and critical infrastructure security
- Formal methods
- formal methods for security
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- mobile and app security and privacy
- network security
- operating systems
- privacy
- security
- systems security
- usable privacy and security
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab awards 2023 seed funding
This year, CyLab has awarded $450K in seed funding to 20 faculty, staff, and students in five departments across three colleges at CMU.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
First round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative is underway as the first round of funded proposals has been announced.
NPR
Agarwal discusses the need for IoT privacy labels
Yuvraj Agarwal, associate professor in CMU’s Computer Science and Software and Societal Systems departments, discusses the need for IoT privacy labels and explains how CyLab is helping pave the way to make it a reality on WOSU's All Sides with Anne Fisher.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab presents IoT privacy and security label research at White House summit
Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute took part in the White House’s Internet of Things (IoT) security summit to discuss what’s needed to foster an effective IoT security labeling ecosystem.
Multiple Outlets
Agarwal quoted on IoT privacy label research
Following his talk at the White House’s Internet of Things (IoT) Security Summit, Yuvraj Agarwal, associate professor in CMU’s Computer Science and Software and Societal Systems Departments, was quoted by several media outlets, including Axios, CyberScoop, and Stacey on IoT, among others.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Researchers propose ephemeral approach to IoT privacy
A team of CyLab researchers has proposed a new model of IoT ownership to help alleviate issues of privacy.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Peekaboo! Here’s a system to guarantee smart home privacy
CyLab researchers have developed a new privacy-sensitive architecture for developers to build smart home apps.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers investigate Apple’s privacy labels
Roughly a year after Apple rolled out its privacy label requirements, CyLab researchers have gained a comprehensive look at the state of iOS privacy labels.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
“Capture” your IoT devices and improve their security
A team of CyLab researchers have created “Capture,” a software architecture to help protect IoT devices from using code from vulnerable software libraries.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Two CyLab papers presented at the FTC’s PrivacyCon 2021
The FTC selected fewer than 20 papers to be presented at this year’s PrivacyCon, and two of them were written by CyLab researchers.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab’s IoT security and privacy label effectively conveys risk, study finds
The study, presented at this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, helps bridge the gap between experts’ knowledge and consumers’ understanding of privacy and security risks.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Third round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its third round of funding, which will support 12 Internet of Things (IoT)-related projects for one year.