Amjad is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Muhammad Ali Gulzar from Virginia Tech. He is also member of ProperData research group and Co-host at NothingToHide? podcast.
His research focuses on using program analysis techniques to solve internet security and privacy problems.
For more: CV [Last updated May'24]
For more: Thesis [Last updated Feb'24]
Accessibility Issues in Ad-Driven Web Applications
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Muhammad Danish, Bless Jah, Muhammad Ali Gulzar
IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2025
Blocking Tracking JavaScript at the Function Granularity
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Shaoor Munir, Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad Ali Gulzar
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2024
ACM CCS 2024 Distinguished Artifact Award
Blocking JavaScript without Breaking the Web: An Empirical Investigation
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad Ali Gulzar
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2023
TrackerSift: untangling mixed tracking and functional web resources
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Danial Saleem, Zubair Shafiq , Muhammad Ali Gulzar
Internet Measeurment Conference (IMC) 2021
Mitigating JavaScript Tracking Functions Using Chromium V8's Generated ASTs
IEEE SNP
San Francisco, 2024
Not publically available
Revolutionizing Privacy: Blocking Tracking JavaScript at the Function Granularity
Goole (Privacy sandbox team)
Remote, 2023
Not publically available
Demystifying the Mystery of Privacy-Invasive JS Functions
Ad-Filtering Developer Summit
Amsterdam, 2023
What's the next era of content blockers?
Ad-Filtering Developer Summit
Amsterdam, 2022
How to disentangle tracking code from functional?
Ad-Filtering Developer Summit
Remote, 2021
Data Privacy Research Intern
Summer 2023
Worked on Solana NFT token-gating for Web3 brave-talk calls
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2021 to Current
Ads and Privacy Research Engineer Intern
Summer 2022
Worked on testing E2E encryption for brave-talk calls
Educative Answers Technical Lead
May 2018 to May 2021
Ph.D Candidate
August 2021 to Current
Bachelor in Computer Science
August 2017 to August 2021
Co-author and Data Analyst for the JavaScript chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac
Member of the Artifacts Review Committee at PETS 2024
Got travel grant for PoPETS 2023
Got travel grant for IEEE S&P 2023