co-Chair, ACTION Student Advisory Council
Bio
Hadjer Benkraouda is a final-year PhD candidate in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a member of the i-DASH Lab led by Prof. Gang Wang. Her research lies at the intersection of binary analysis, artificial intelligence, and human factors, with a focus on improving security for IoT devices. Her goal as a computer scientist is to advance security analysis tools—specifically by building systems that automate and assist security analysts in performing quick and effective binary analysis.