Shivam Agarwal is a second year MSE student in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. He received his bachelors in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, with a minor in Electrical Engineering. His research interests are mainly in web security and machine learning. His current research project is on Open Web Privacy Measurement Platform (OpenWPM) where he is developing a browser tool which will use machine learning to automatically detect privacy threats like third party tracking and browser fingerprinting. In his undergraduate thesis, he developed a firefox extension to prevent XSS, a Web based security attack. Shivam interned at Facebook Inc. as a software engineer in the ads personalization team. Before coming to Princeton, Shivam worked full time for an year in Tower Research Capital, a high frequency trading firm headquartered at New York. As an undergraduate, he interned in the networking team at Bell Labs India.
