Research

Agentic AI Security and Red-Teaming of Financial Agents

This research investigates reasoning-layer vulnerabilities in autonomous AI-driven financial systems, with a focus on prompt injection attacks against Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). The project examines how malicious contextual instructions can influence agent reasoning and payment-related decision-making even when cryptographic execution-layer protections are present.

Paper:
Whispers of Wealth: Red-Teaming Google’s Agent Payments Protocol

Auditing Yelp’s Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness

This research examines fairness issues in Yelp’s business ranking and review recommendation systems. The study analyzes how platform ranking and recommendation mechanisms may affect business visibility, user attention, and fairness outcomes in online review ecosystems.

Paper:
Auditing Yelp’s Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness

Quantitative Methods in HCI and Social Computing

This project examines how quantitative methods are used in recent Human-Computer Interaction and social computing research. The work focuses on identifying methodological patterns across studies, including statistical modeling, regression, sentiment analysis, NLP-based methods, and machine learning approaches.

AI Sustainability and Water Externality Analysis

This research explores the environmental impact of AI infrastructure, with a focus on data center water consumption and AI-related water externalities. The project involves estimating water footprint, cooling-system efficiency, and regional sustainability implications of large-scale AI systems.

Database Exploration Lab (DBXLab) Research

This research focused on feature selection, approximate functional dependencies, and data mining techniques for high-dimensional datasets. The work investigated top-k attribute selection using mutual information, association-based analysis, and upper- and lower-bound functional dependency methods under the supervision of Dr. Gautam Das at the University of Texas at Arlington.