Hi! I am Mugdha Khedkar (pronunciation: 🔊). I am a Research Associate at Heinz Nixdorf Institut at Paderborn University, Germany. I am also a PhD student advised by Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden in the Secure Software Engineering group. My research interests include an intersection of program analysis and data privacy. Currently I am exploring the role of static program analysis in ensuring protection and privacy of user data in Android apps.
If you’re interested in collaborating or have opportunities, please feel free to get in touch!
Latest News
📢 May 2026: I submitted my Doctoral Dissertation titled Assisting GDPR Compliance through Static Analysis of Android Apps at Paderborn University 📝💻🎉. NEW
📢 May 2026: I have been invited to serve as a Program Committee member for ICSE 2027 (ACM Student Research Competition). NEW
📢 April 2026: I presented our research paper at MOBILESoft 2026 in Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), and attended ICSE 2026 🇧🇷. NEW
📢 April 2026: I have been invited to serve as a Program Committee member for ASE 2026 (Tools and Datasets).
📢 March 2026: I have been invited to serve as a Program Committee member for QUATIC 2026 (Thematic Track Security and Privacy).
📢 March 2026: I attended SANER 2026 in Limassol (Cyprus), where I presented our tool demonstration paper 🇨🇾.
📢 February 2026: I gave a talk at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (🇩🇪).
📢 February 2026: Our paper has been accepted for publication in the Automated Software Engineering Journal 🎉🎊.
📢 January 2026: Our paper has been accepted at MOBILESoft 2026 🎉🎊.
📢 December 2025: A couple of things happened:
Our paper has been accepted for publication in the Automated Software Engineering Journal 🎉🎊.
Our tool paper has been accepted at SANER 2026 🎉🎊!
I’m serving on the Artifact Evaluation Committee of USENIX 2026 and PoPETS 2026.
I visited Davis Security Lab, University of California Davis and gave an invited talk (🇺🇸).
I gave a virtual talk at King’s College London (🇬🇧).
📢 October 2025: I organized a workshop session at the IAPP European Privacy KnowledgeNet 2025 at Munich (🇩🇪).
📢 October 2025: I gave a talk at LMU Munich (🇩🇪) and TU Wien (🇦🇹).
📢 September 2025: I gave a talk at Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam (🇩🇪).
📢 September 2025: I have been invited to serve as a Program Committee member for STATIC 2026.
📢 August 2025: I gave a talk at IT University, Copenhagen (🇩🇰).
📢 July 2025: I attended the 4th Summer School on Security Testing & Verification (ST&V 2025) in Brussels, and presented a poster 🇧🇪.
📢 May 2025: I have been invited to serve as a Program Committee member for ASE 2025 (Tool Demonstrations).
📢 March 2025: I gave a talk at Amazon, Santa Clara (🇺🇸).
📢 November 2024: I attended ASE 2024 in Sacramento (California), where I presented our papers at the A-Mobile workshop 🇺🇸.
📢 October 2024: I gave a talk at University of California, Davis (🇺🇸).
📢 October 2024: I gave a talk at the CyberResilience.NRW kickoff event in Paderborn.
📢 September 2024: I got selected to be a student volunteer for ASE 2024.
📢 September 2024: Two papers were accepted at the 7th International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis held in conjunction with ASE 2024 🎉🎊.
📢 July 2024: I became a member of the Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group.
📢 April 2024: I have been invited to serve as a Program Committee member for ASE 2024 (Tool Demonstrations).
📢 April 2024: I presented our short paper at MOBILESoft 2024 and attended ICSE 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹.
📢 March 2024: Our short paper was accepted at MOBILESoft 2024 Research Forum 🎉🎊.
📢 October 2023: I participated in the Dagstuhl Research Methods Seminar 2023 🇩🇪. I have shared my experience here.
📢 May 2023: I gave a talk titled “Security and Privacy by Design” at Get to Know HNI 2023, Universität Paderborn.
📢 May 2023: I presented a poster at the ICSE 2023 Doctoral Symposium in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺.
📢 March 2023: My short paper was accepted at ICSE 2023 Doctoral Symposium 🎉🎊.
📢 December 2022: I was selected as a Junior PC member for the research track of MSR 2023.