Robert Silvers most recently served as the Under Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Silvers was nominated by President Biden into that role and won unanimous confirmation in the United States Senate. He was responsible for driving DHS’s direction across all of its missions, including counterterrorism; cybersecurity; AI safety; border security...
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...
Kevin previously served as an advisor to FTC Chair Lina M. Khan, shaping the Commission’s privacy and security agenda. During his tenure, he played a key role in groundbreaking cases, including health privacy issues involving social media tracking, record monetary settlements under COPPA, actions against location data brokers, and cases addressing facial recognition misuse and...
Renata is currently a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, working with Prof. Justin Cappos. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Novi Sad in Serbia, where her research focused on domain-specific languages and graph theory. After completing her PhD, she shifted her focus to the domain of cybersecurity, where she has led the...
Alice Wen is a first-year 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...
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...
Sudipta Banerjee is a Research Assistant Professor currently working with Prof. Nasir Memon. Her research interests are in Biometrics, Digital Image Forensics, and Generative Models. Sudipta received her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University. Personal webpage: https://sudban-3089.github.io./
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.
Yuchen “Dennis” Zhang will be joining the Secure System Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher later this year, working under the supervision of Dr. Justin Cappos. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. He did his undergraduate work in computer science at Boston University, and...