Abdullah Chaudhry

About

My research is in web security and privacy. Lately that's meant measuring how malicious browser extensions behave, and right now I'm working on service workers and web push notifications. Before that, I worked in applied machine learning. I also write the odd developer tool when something annoys me enough.

Research

MADWeb 2026 Two Heads Are Better Than One: Analysing Browser Extensions Across Stores A measurement study of browser extensions published across stores: how their names and authors change, and how their states evolve over time. With Valentino Dalla Valle and Aurore Fass.

Code for the paper is on GitHub

Projects

Python nestjs-openapi-gen Turns an OpenAPI spec into NestJS controller stubs and DTOs.
C sqlite-fuzzer A fuzzer for SQLite.
Python p2p-file-sharing Peer-to-peer file sharing that keeps working when peers and servers drop out.
C++ file-system An emulated file system, built for an operating systems course.

Everything else is on GitHub

Hobbies

Away from work Languages, reading and chess The languages I speak, my favourite books in English, Urdu and German, and where to find me over a chessboard.