Shailja Thakur is a postdoctoral fellow currently working with Professors Ramesh Karri and Siddharth Garg. Her research interests span the field of cybersecurity, with a particular focus on the application of language modelling in embedded systems, LLM attributions, safety, and privacy. Shailja received her Ph.D from the University of Waterloo, where she conducted extensive research...
Marco Romanelli is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, where he works with Prof. Siddharth Garg. His research interests lie in the field of safety in AI, blending together notions from the areas of machine learning and information theory. In particular, his latest publications are focused on misclassification and adversarial examples...
Christina Pöpper, a tenure-track professor of Computer Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, heads the university’s Cyber Security & Privacy (CSP) lab and serves as director of research at its Center for Cyber Security. With a personal research goal of enhancing the security and privacy of current and future IT/communication systems, she is currently working towards...
Michail (Mihalis) Maniatakos is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi, and serves as Director of the Modern Microprocessors Architectures (MoMA) Laboratory there. His work at MoMA focuses on strategies to preserve security and privacy in high-performance and embedded microprocessors. In addition to his work in privacy-preserving computation, his research interests include...
Hammond Pearce is a research assistant professor at NYU Center for Cybersecurity, where his work currently focuses on cybersecurity within cyber-physical and embedded systems, and the implications of machine learning (ML) in this space. A Ph.D. recipient in computer engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, his research interests also include additive manufacturing and...
Joel Caminer is Senior Director for the NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS), and Faculty Director for the MS in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy program (MS-CRS). He was previously Director of the Applied Learning Initiative Stackable Credentials Program as part of Cyber NYC, a $100 million suite of public-private investments to establish New York City as...
Brandon Reagen is an Assistant Professor at NYU. His research focuses on developing hardware accelerators and architectures to bridge the immense performance gap of privacy-preserving machine learning. The goal of his work is to demonstrate that technologies like homomorphic encryption can be made feasible. He received his PhD from Harvard in 2018 and, prior to...
Danny Y. Huang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is interested in real-world security and privacy issues that face millions of consumers every day. He leads the IoT Inspector project, which helps consumers understand security and privacy threats of smart home IoT devices around the world. Prior to joining NYU, Huang...
Pano Yannakogeorgos join NYU’s Center for Global Affairs as a Clinical Associate Professor following eight years in government civil service with the US Air Force. He served as the Founding Dean of the Air Force Cyber College at Air University, and as a Research Professor at the Air Force Research Institute where he participated in...
Quanyan Zhu is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is director of the Laboratory for Agile and Resilient Complex Systems (LARX). The lab focuses on the development of fundamental principles and tools to address security and resilience issues with robotics, industrial control systems, manufacturing systems, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and critical...