SAIID EL HAJJ CHEHADE
I am a PhD candidate at SPRING Lab in EPFL, Switzerland 🇨 🇭. I focus on web privacy and security research. I am interested in finding more robust tools to study the opaque web ecosystem! Can we automate security and privacy analysis further?
Clean code proponent and full-stack development enthusiast. Artistically inspired across mediums.
Contact
BC 266, EPFL CH-1014 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 693 99 77
GET /news
We developed an ethical server-side scanning tool, VSF🔁, that made it to IEEE S&P 2025🎉. Go give it a read!
8 days ago | April 2025Our exciting work on fingerprinting ad-blocker filter-lists 👀 got accepted at USENIX 2025.
3 months ago | February 2025I spent the summer at CISPA to work with Dr. Ben Stock on authorization issues and server-side scanning. Check my interview with CISPA about my experience there.
7 months ago | September 2024Our work (My first paper 🎉) on Saliency-informed breakage detection got accepted at IEEE S&P 2024.
a year ago | April 2024GET /research
/research/advisor
Working under the supervision of Prof. Carmela Troncoso
/research/interests
I am mainly interested in investigating the realm of web privacy and security and I regularly poke the following components
browsers
server-side
web extensions
/research/projects
Here is a highlight of my most interesting projects
