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...
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 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 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 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 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...
Rosanna “Rosie” Bellini joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor. She is motivated to make technologies safer for everyone, but especially for groups who might have originally been overlooked when digital systems were designed, deployed, and evaluated. As a native of Manchester, England, she completed...
Robert Silvers is co-chair of the national security practice group and a member of the global data, privacy & cybersecurity practice at Ropes & Gray LLP. Rob is a globally recognized leader at the intersection of security, emerging technology, and law. Drawing on his senior-level experience at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he...
Mohammed Adnan Jakati is a Master’s student at NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity. Adnan has professional experience as a Security Engineer at Sony India and as a Software Engineer Intern at Alorb Technologies. During this time, he gained expertise in penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and secure software development. He has worked on notable projects, such as...