Sanket Goutam

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University where I was advised by Prof. Amir Rahmati.

My Ph.D. thesis was focused on building privacy-preserving infrastructures for modern consumer devices. I developed novel techniques for authentication, authorization, access control, and advnanced cryptographic primitives for data protection targetting consumer mobile devices, XR wearables, and smart home / IoT ecosystems. During my Ph.D., I collaborated closely with Samsung Research America, integrating my research with various Knox Security products. I also spent some time at Netflix working on the MSL Protocol. I am fortunate to have my research have had an impact across Apple, Meta, Samsung, Google, and Netflix.

Research Funding : My Ph.D. research was largely supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant on Robust Energy Infrastructure and Resiliency (N00014-22-1-2001), Meta Research Award, and Samsung Research grants.

Media Coverage

My research on security hardening of AR and IoT systems was covered by the Future Force Magazine - Vol. 9, 2023.
My contributions towards designing a curriculum for Computer Science Teaching Assistants (TAs), as part of the Inclusive Computing Fellowship, was published in a news article by SBU News.

selected publications

PETS

Proteus: A Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving Device Logs

Sanket Goutam, Hunter Kippen, Michael Grace, and Amir Rahmati

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2026

DOI Bib HTML PDF Video Slides

@article{goutam2026proteus,
  title = {Proteus: A Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving Device Logs},
  author = {Goutam, Sanket and Kippen, Hunter and Grace, Michael and Rahmati, Amir},
  journal = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs)},
  volume = {2026},
  number = {4},
  pages = {891--905},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.56553/popets-2026-0150},
  url = {https://petsymposium.org/popets/2026/popets-2026-0150.php},
}

SmartSP

Atlas: Enabling Cross-Vendor Authentication for IoT

Sanket Goutam, Omar Chowdhury, and Amir Rahmati

In Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP 2026), 2026

arXiv Bib HTML PDF

@inproceedings{goutam2026atlas,
  title = {Atlas: Enabling Cross-Vendor Authentication for IoT},
  author = {Goutam, Sanket and Chowdhury, Omar and Rahmati, Amir},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP 2026)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2026},
}

USENIX Sec

Erebus: Access Control for Augmented Reality Systems

Sanket Goutam^*, Yoonsang Kim^*, Amir Rahmati, and Arie Kaufman

In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), 2023

Bib HTML PDF Supp Video Blog Code Poster Slides

@inproceedings{kim2023erebus,
  title = {Erebus: Access Control for Augmented Reality Systems},
  author = {Goutam*, Sanket and Kim*, Yoonsang and Rahmati, Amir and Kaufman, Arie},
  booktitle = {32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23)},
  pages = {929--946},
  year = {2023},
}

ACM WiSec

Hestia: Simple Least Privilege Network Policies for Smart Homes

Sanket Goutam, William Enck, and Bradley Reaves

In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec), 2019

Bib PDF Slides Website

@inproceedings{goutam2019hestia,
  title = {Hestia: Simple Least Privilege Network Policies for Smart Homes},
  author = {Goutam, Sanket and Enck, William and Reaves, Bradley},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec)},
  pages = {215--220},
  year = {2019},
}