Qianxi Chen is a Ph.D. student advised by Professor Justin Cappos, Prior to embarking on his graduate studies, Qianxi earned his B.S. in Computer Science at Tandon in 2024. His research interests include operating systems, system security, software supply chain security, and WebAssembly. His current doctoral work focuses on developing a single-process sandbox that will...
Profile Category: <span>PhD's</span>
Minghao Shao
Minghao Shao is a NYU Abu Dhabi Global Ph.D. fellow and Google Ph.D. fellow in Privacy, Safety, and Security. A Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Abu Dhabi, he is co-advised by Professors Muhammad Shafique and Ramesh Karri. Minghao received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science...
Jianqiao “Cambridge” Mo
Jianqiao “Cambridge” Mo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University, where he is advised by Assistant Professor Brandon Reagen. His research focuses on hardware acceleration for cryptography, with an aim of advancing end-to-end data privacy and integrity. A recipient of the Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence in...
Meet Udeshi
Meet Udeshi is a PhD student advised by Professors Farshad Khorrami and Ramesh Karri. His research interests include hardware, control system, and cyber-physical system security, dynamic binary analysis, and machine learning for security. In his PhD studies, he is designing dynamic analysis and runtime monitoring frameworks for the security of cyber-physical systems. A graduate of...
Cat Mai
Cat Mai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science department, advised by Damon McCoy, who co-founded Cybersecurity for Democracy. She is broadly interested in the relationship between users and online advertising, particularly identifying discrimination in the ad delivery system. Cat received her B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Clark University in Worcester, MA.
Mukund Ramakrishnan
Mukund Ramakrishnan is a second-year PhD student advised by Prof. Brandon Reagen. He earned his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in 2024. His past work has broadly focused on hardware acceleration for various math and science applications, while his current research primarily focuses on designing accelerators for privacy-preserving computing and homomorphic...
Sara Ghazanfari
Sara Ghazanfari is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where she is advised by Professors Siddharth Garg and Farshad Khorrami. Since beginning her doctoral studies in January 2023, her research has focused on advancing the visual understanding capabilities of multimodal large language models...
Yaxuan (Alice) Wen
Alice Wen is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science advised by Professor Justin Cappos at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her research interests focus on system security and software supply chain security. She is currently working on the Just-One-Turtle project in the Secure Systems Lab, a new initiative to enhance software resilience by leveraging the...
Brandon Sloane
Brandon Sloane is a part-time Ph.D. student, working under the direction of Dr. Danny Y. Huang, and a full-time cybersecurity professional who has been in the industry for more than 20 years. He currently works for Meta where he leads their AI Security Global Risk and Compliance program, and key efforts around Information Security Risk...
Moshe Satt
Moshe (Mo) Satt is the Chief Information Security Officer for the Department of Sanitation of the City of New York, and an incoming NYU PhD student who has dedicated his career to enhancing the quality of life and public safety for all New Yorkers. From 2018 to 2020, he served as CISO of the Fire...









