PhD Students

Michael Jerge
Since Jan-24
LLM reliability
Masters Student
Undergraduate Researchers
Shinjini Bose
Undergraduate Researcher
Since Spring 2024
LLM fairness
Undergraduate Researcher
Since Spring 2024
LLM fairness
Zihan Mei
Undergraduate Researcher
Since Spring 2024
LLM application privacy
Undergraduate Researcher
Since Spring 2024
LLM application privacy

Director
Graduated PhD Students

Yan Huang
Fall 2012
PhD in Computer Engineering, August 2012
PhD Dissertation: Practical Secure Two-Party Computation
Associate Professor, Indiana University

Bargav Jayaraman
Fall 2016 – Fall 2022
PhD in Computer Science, Dec 2022
PhD Dissertation: Analyzing the Leaky Cauldron: Inference Attacks on Machine Learning
Meta AI Lab

Josephine Lamp
Co-advised with Lu Feng
Fall 2018 – Spring 2024
PhD in Computer Science, May 2024
PhD Dissertation: Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support Systems for Medical Trajectories
Dexcom, Inc.

Karsten Nohl
Spring 2009
PhD in Computer Engineering, May 2009
PhD Dissertation: Implementable Privacy for RFID Systems
Chief Scientist, Security Research Labs

Nathanael Paul
Spring 2008
PhD in Computer Science, May 2008
PhD Dissertation: Disk-Level Malware Detection
Gemini (previously DexCom, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Anshuman Suri
Fall 2019 – Summer 2024
PhD in Computer Science, May 2024
PhD Dissertation: Inference Privacy in Machine Learning
Postdoc, Northeastern

Fnu Suya
Co-advised with Yuan Tian
Fall 2017 – Summer 2023
PhD in Computer Science, August 2023
PhD Dissertation: On the Limits of Data Poisoning Attacks
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Weilin Xu
Co-advised with Yanjun Qi
Fall 2013 – Spring 2019
PhD in Computer Science, May 2019
PhD Dissertation: Improving Robustness of Machine Learning Models using Domain Knowledge
Intel (Adversarial Machine Learning Research, Hillsboro, OR)

Jinlin Yang
Spring 2007
PhD in Computer Science, May 2007
PhD Dissertation: Automatic Inference and Effective Application of Temporal Specifications
Snapchat (previously Microsoft)

Samee Zahur
Spring 2016
PhD in Computer Science, May 2016
PhD Dissertation: Demystifying Secure Computation: Familiar Abstractions for Efficient Protocols

Xiao Zhang
Summer 2018 – Fall 2022
PhD in Computer Science, May 2022
PhD Dissertation: From Characterizing Intrinsic Robustness to Adversarially Robust Machine Learning
Tenure-track faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Yuchen Zhou
Spring 2015
PhD in Computer Engineering, May 2015
PhD Dissertation: Improving Security and Privacy of Integrated Web Applications
Palo Alto Networks; Facebook

Samee Zahur (PhD 2016), Anshuman Suri, Fnu Suya, Tingwei Zhang, Scott Hong
Visitors

Mahnush Movahedi
Post-Doctoral Visitor
Spring 2016
Yale University, Dfinity, Facebook
PhD from University of New Mexico

Muhammad Naveed
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Summer 2013
Graduate student visit while PhD student at UIUC
Assistant Professor at University of Southern Californa

Sicheng Zhu
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Fall 2019 – Summer 2020
robust machine learning
University of Maryland PhD Student

Haina Li, Felix Park,
Mainuddin Jonas,
Anant Kharkar,
Faysal Hossain Shezan,
Fnu Suya, David Evans, Yuan Tian, Riley Spahn, Weilin Xu, Guy “Jack” Verrier

Students and Alumni at USENIX Security 2011

Research Group Lunch (6 May 2015)

Security Research Group (19 January 2016)
Jack Doerner, Samee Zahur, Mahnush Movahedi, Mohammad Etemad, Hannah Li, Weilin Xu, Karen Pan
Zihao Su
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Fall 2021 – Summer 2022
inference privacy, VR security
UC Santa Barbara PhD Student
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Fall 2021 – Summer 2022
inference privacy, VR security
UC Santa Barbara PhD Student
Yulong Tian
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Since Fall 2020
hiding machine learning backdoors
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Since Fall 2020
hiding machine learning backdoors
Yiran Yao
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Summer 2021
adversarial training
Pre-Doctoral Visitor
Summer 2021
adversarial training
Graduated Masters Students
Greg Yukl
MCS 2003
MCS 2003
In-Line Source Code Generation

Students and Alumni at USENIX Security 2011
Undergraduate Researchers Completed PhDs
John Calandrino
2002
2002
University of North Carolina PhD 2009 (worked with James Anderson on real-time scheduling for multicore platforms)
Microsoft
Adriana Porter Felt
2006 – 2008
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Finalist 2008, SEAS Outstanding Student Award 2008
TR 35, CRA Video, USENIX Security PC Co-Chair 2018
Google
2006 – 2008
UC Berkeley PhD 2012 (David Wagner)
privacy protection for social networking APIs, mashup security issuesCRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Finalist 2008, SEAS Outstanding Student Award 2008
TR 35, CRA Video, USENIX Security PC Co-Chair 2018
Christopher Frost
2003 – 2004
2003 – 2004
UCLA PhD 2010 (worked on the Featherstich File System Project with Eddie Kohler)
Google, Samsara
William (GJ) Halfond
2002
2002
Georgia Tech PhD 2010 (worked on web application security with Alessandro Orso)
University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Jonathan McCune
2001 – 2003
Google
2001 – 2003
Carnegie Mellon University PhD 2009 (advised by Adrian Perrig and Mike Reiter)
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mentionee in 2003
William Melicher
2012 – 2013
BACS 2013
2012 – 2013
BACS 2013
Carnegie Mellon Univeristy PhD 2019 (advised by Lujo Bauer)
USENIX Security 2016 Best Paper
Matt Spear
2005 – 2006
2005 – 2006
UC Davis PhD 2010 (worked with Karl Levitt and Felix Wu on peer-to-peer networking)
Google

Research Group Lunch (6 May 2015)
Undergraduate Researchers Currently in PhD Programs
Yanjin Chen
Since Summer 2022
Since Summer 2022
inference privacy
Princeton University (Bioinformatics)
Evan Rose
Since Summer 2021
Since Summer 2021
poisoning attacks
Northeastern University
Tingwei Zhang
Since Summer 2022
Since Summer 2022
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Cornell
Researchers
Corey Ames
Undergraduate Researcher, 2014 – 2015
Undergraduate Researcher, 2014 – 2015
Pragun Ananda
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
natural language processing
Alex Becker
Undergraduate Researcher, Co-advised with Denis Nekipelov
Since Summer 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Co-advised with Denis Nekipelov
Since Summer 2020
revealing privacy preferences
Emily Buerk
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
black-box attacks machine learning systems
William Buerk
Visiting High School Student, Since Fall 2020
Visiting High School Student, Since Fall 2020
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Jonathan Burket
Undergraduate Researcher, 2010 – 2013
BACS 2013
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mentionee 2013
CMU MS 2015
Apogee Research
DuoLingo
Undergraduate Researcher, 2010 – 2013
BACS 2013
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mentionee 2013
CMU MS 2015
Apogee Research
DuoLingo
Jenny Cha
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
secure web applications
Peter Chapman
Undergraduate Researcher, 2009 – 2012
BACS 2012
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Runner-Up in 2012
CMU MS 2015
DuoLingo
Undergraduate Researcher, 2009 – 2012
BACS 2012
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Runner-Up in 2012
CMU MS 2015
DuoLingo
Jiamin Chen
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Justin Chen
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2021
inference privacy
Austin DeVinney
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
secure web application framework
visiting from Radford University
Travis Dean
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2013
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2013
implementing secure computation protocols
Paul DiOrio
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2008
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2008
linguistics and security
Isabelle Fang
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2020 – Fall 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2020 – Fall 2021
natural language processing
Nick Figgins
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Spring 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Spring 2021
adversarial machine learning for malware classification
David Friedman
Undergraduate Researcher, 2002
Undergraduate Researcher, 2002
Johns Hopkins University
Nathaiel Grevatt
Undergraduate Researcher, 2018 – 2019
Undergraduate Researcher, 2018 – 2019
secure computation and the GDPR
Salvatore Guarnieri
Undergraduate Researcher, 2003 – 2006
University of Washington (Masters 2010)
now at Google (New York)
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Finalist in 2006
Undergraduate Researcher, 2003 – 2006
University of Washington (Masters 2010)
now at Google (New York)
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Finalist in 2006
Theo Gutman-Solo
Undergraduate Researcher, 2013 – 2014
BACS 2014
Undergraduate Researcher, 2013 – 2014
BACS 2014
Princeton University PhD program in Operations Research
Mark Hannan
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Brittany Harris
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
secure multi-party computation
Scott Hong
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2022
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2022
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Richard Hsu
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2008
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2008
scene-based CAPTCHAs
Robert Jacobs
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2013
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2013
prime numbers
Meredith James
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Fall 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Fall 2021
inference privacy
Anika Karpurapu
Visiting High School Student, Since Fall 2020
Visiting High School Student, Since Fall 2020
evaluating privacy for machine learning
Katherine Knipmeyer
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2021
evaluating privacy for machine learning
Meghan Knoll
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2007
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2007
spyware
SangHyung Koo
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
secure mobile applications
Rachel Lathbury
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2008
BACS 2010
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2008
BACS 2010
University of Pennsylvania (Linguistics)
Hunter Leath
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014 – Fall 2015
BACS Fall 2015
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014 – Fall 2015
BACS Fall 2015
Amazon (Cambridge, MA)
Jessie Li
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Guanmei Liang
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2013
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2013
Cameron Lloyd
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2020
BSCS 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2020
BSCS 2020
Microsoft
Yifu Lu
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Fall 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Fall 2021
inference privacy
University of Michigan
Michael Mahoney
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Kyle McGuire
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Samuel Medlin
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2019 – Fall 2019
BSCS Fall 2019
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2019 – Fall 2019
BSCS Fall 2019
Inferring and Analyzing User Privacy Preferences
Rob Michaels
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2014
Casey Mihaloew
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2011
secure web aplication framework
Sean Miller
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2021
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2021
poisoning attacks
Aditi Narvekar
Undergraduate Researcher, 2017 – 2019
Undergraduate Researcher, 2017 – 2019
adversarial machine learning
Apple; Georgia Tech OMCS
Felix Park
Undergraduate Researcher, 2017 – 2018
Undergraduate Researcher, 2017 – 2018
adversarial machine learning
Kush Patel
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
BSCS 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
BSCS 2020
The Effects of Clipping on Differentially Private Machine Learning
Michael Peck
Undergraduate Researcher, 2003 – 2004
Undergraduate Researcher, 2003 – 2004
Johns Hopkins University MS
Ryan Persaud
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001
UC San Diego
Jack Prescott
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2019 – Spring 2021
BACS 2021 (Highest Distinction)
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2019 – Spring 2021
BACS 2021 (Highest Distinction)
robust machine learning
Parvesh Samayamanthula
Visiting High School Student, Summer 2018
Visiting High School Student, Summer 2018
adversarial NLP for privacy policies
Ori Shimony
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2015 – 2016
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2015 – 2016
incentives and Tor
Konrad Siebor
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Carly Simpson
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2007
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2007
security applications of GPUs
Amar Singh
Undergraduate Researcher, 2017 – 2018
Undergraduate Researcher, 2017 – 2018
proof-of-stake vulnerabilities
Kelvin Sparks
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2017 – 2018
BSCS 2018
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2017 – 2018
BSCS 2018
cryptocurrency governance
Jinghui Tian
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2022
Undergraduate Researcher, Since Summer 2022
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Brian Tran
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
black-box attacks machine learning systems
Adam Trost
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001 – 2002
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001 – 2002
UVA Law School
Michael Weaver
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
BSCS 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
BSCS 2011
a secure web application framework
Erwin Wijaya
Undergraduate Researcher, Co-advised with Denis Nekipelov
Since Summer 2020
Undergraduate Researcher, Co-advised with Denis Nekipelov
Since Summer 2020
revealing privacy preferences
Shengxuan (Jerry) Ye
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2011
CalTech (Masters in Computation and Neural Systems); Facebook
Muzzammil Zaveri
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
BSCS 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
BSCS 2011
a secure web application framework

Security Research Group (19 January 2016)
Jack Doerner, Samee Zahur, Mahnush Movahedi, Mohammad Etemad, Hannah Li, Weilin Xu, Karen Pan