Yuvraj Agarwal
Associate Professor, 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
- AI, energy, and climate
- Applications of security and privacy
- critical minerals and energy security
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- distributed systems
- embedded systems
- energy and critical infrastructure security
- Formal methods
- formal methods for security
- grid-interactive, high-performance, and electrified buildings
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- mobile and app security and privacy
- network security
- operating systems
- privacy
- public policy and regulation
- security
- systems security
- usable privacy and security
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Protecting audio privacy at the source
To allow audio sensing without compromising privacy, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an on-device filter, called Kirigami, that can detect and delete human speech segments collected by audio sensors before they're used for activity recognition.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab undergrads take the lead on groundbreaking research
This summer, two CyLab papers that featured undergrads as lead writers were accepted and presented at major international conferences.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers present at ACM CHI 2024
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers presented 10 papers and participated in one special interest group at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab receives a $250,000 gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to support research on IoT security and privacy labels
Craig Newmark Philanthropies has announced a $250,000 gift to support the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute’s research on privacy and security labels for IoT devices.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Second round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative has announced its second round of funded proposals.
Nature
Agarwal featured in Nature article about campus surveillance
CyLab’s Yuvraj Agarwal was featured in a Nature article about campus surveillance. “For years, buildings have had sensors that are used to control the lights and the heating,” he says. “We give users complete control, so they can decide from the start what they want the sensors to do.”
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CMU’s Synergy Lab presents multiple papers on ubiquitous sensing at UbiComp
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon's Systems, Networking, and Energy Efficiency (Synergy) Lab will present several multi-year studies on their work around ubiquitous sensing at this week's ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty, students to present at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. Held in Anaheim, CA, on August 9-11, the event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab presents at White House's launch of new Cyber Trust mark
Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute met with government officials and technology industry leaders, as the White House launched its new Cyber Trust mark. Associate Professor Yuvraj Agarwal represented CMU at the event, sharing key findings from CyLab’s five plus years of IoT security and privacy label research.
Bloomberg Law
Agarwal quoted on IoT labels
SCS’ Yuvraj Agarwal shares insights from a recent study on IoT security and privacy labels.
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.