Cat Mai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science department, advised by Damon McCoy, who co-founded Cybersecurity for Democracy (now the Cybersafety Research Center). 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...
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 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...
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 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 (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...
Rameen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon under the supervision of Prof. Danny Huang. She completed her B.S in Electrical Engineering (Honors) at New York University Abu Dhabi in May 2023. Rameen’s primary research interests lie in the field of medical data privacy and security.
Alhad Daftardar is a PhD student advised by Brandon Reagen and Siddharth Garg. I’m broadly interested in algorithm-hardware codesign, and my research at NYU is focused on computer architecture for cryptography and privacy-preserving deep learning. Prior to coming to NYU, I received my BS in EE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and my MS...
Patrick Yubeaton is a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at NYU Tandon. He is advised by Dr. Quanyan Zhu and is a member of the Laboratory for Agile and Resilient Complex Systems (LARX) group. He completed his BS in Electrical Engineering at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in 2022. He is...
Julia Jose is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, advised by Dr. Rachel Greenstadt. Prior to joining NYU, she worked as a Data Scientist for Atos zData, where she focused on applied natural language processing, as well as ML Ops. She was also a member of the AI Ethics council at Atos zData. Julia holds...