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William Enck Current PhD Students Seaver Thorn (expected 2026) Elizabeth Lin (expected 2026) K Virgil English (expected 2027) Greg Tystahl (expected 2027) [co-advised with Dr Alexandros Kapravelos] Jonah Ghebremichael (expected 2028) [co-advised with Dr Alexandros Kapravelos] (all current and past students) I am actively looking for talented and motivated students with an interest in systems security
Publications | William Enck William Enck, Defending Users Against Smartphone Apps: Techniques and Future Directions, in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Kolkata, India, 2011
Research | William Enck Adwait Nadkarni and William Enck, Preventing Accidental Data Disclosure in Modern Operating Systems, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin, Germany, 2013
Publications - William Enck William Enck, Defending Users Against Smartphone Apps: Techniques and Future Directions, in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Kolkata, India, 2011
Short Bio | William Enck William Enck is the Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Security Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at the North Carolina State University where he is co-director of the Secure Computing Institute (SCI) and director of the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Research (WSPR) laboratory
Vita | William Enck Adwait Nadkarni and William Enck, Preventing Accidental Data Disclosure in Modern Operating Systems, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin, Germany, 2013
A Study of Android Application Security - William Enck William Enck, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel, and Swarat Chaudhuri Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University {enck, octeau, mcdaniel, swarat}@cse psu edu Abstract
News - William Enck September 25, 2025: Our paper, Which Is Better For Reducing Outdated And Vulnerable Dependencies: Pinning Or Floating? has been accepted for publication at the 2025 IEEE ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Septeber 9, 2025: Our paper, Cosseter: GitHub Actions Permission Reduction Using Demand-Driven Static Analysis has been accepted for publicaton at the 2026