Rumaisa Habib/رومیسہ حبیب

frog enthusiast, scientist, PhD student (in that order)

rumaisa {at} cs {dot} stanford {dot} edu | cv | pgp key

I am a third-year CS PhD candidate at Stanford University advised by Zakir Durumeric and funded by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Before joining Stanford, I was at LUMS (BS ‘23).

At LUMS, I worked under the supervision of Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi and Zartash Afzal Uzmi on efficient means to debloat websites & software.

# Select Publications/خصوصی اشاعتیں

Formalizing Dependence of Web Infrastructure

Rumaisa Habib, Kimberly Ruth, Gautam Akiwate, Zakir Durumeric

In this work, we introduce a rigorous statistical metric for Internet centralization. In doing so, we also uncover how regionalization—geopolitical dependence on the Internet—fundamentally affects centralization.

ACM SIGCOMM 2025

A Framework for Improving Web Affordability and Inclusiveness

Rumaisa Habib*, Sarah Tanveer*, Aimen Inam, Haseeb Ahmed, Ayesha Ali, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi [*Joint first authors]

We propose a novel framework and a fairness metric for rethinking Web architecture for affordability and inclusion.

ACM SIGCOMM 2023

A First Look at Public Service Websites from the Affordability Lens

Rumaisa Habib, Aimen Inam, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi

This paper presents the first large-scale analysis of the afordability of public service websites in developing countries.

The Web Conference 2023

# Talks/تقریریں
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