Ann Malavet is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is advised by Professor Justin Cappos. She holds a B.S. from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and an M.S. in Computer Science from NYU’s Courant Institute. Her research interests include system security, cryptocurrency fraud, and AI...
Evan Johnson is an Assistant Professor at NYU. His research sits at the intersection of security, systems, and programming languages. In particular, his research goal is to design systems that provide strong formal safety guarantees for foundational code like compilers and operating systems—while still being practical enough to deploy in production. He received his PhD...
Brendan Sweezy is a Ph.D. student in the ECE department at NYU Tandon. Under the guidance of his advisor, Assistant Professor Brandon Reagen, he is researching computer architectures for accelerating cryptography and privacy preserving computation. Sweezy’s current focus is on developing hardware for zero-knowledge proofs, and specifically making anonymous proving possible for edge users. A...
Andrew Quijano is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering under the supervision of Professor Danny Huang. His research focuses on automated vulnerability injection and software security benchmarking. This work expands upon the Large-Scale Automated Vulnerability Addition (LAVA) framework originally begun by his first Ph.D. advisor, Associate Professor Brendan Dolan-Gavitt....
Meghna Manoj Nair is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate in the Privacy, Security & Automation Lab of NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity, working under the direction of Dr. Rachel Greenstadt. She completed her undergraduate studies in computer science at Vellore Institute of Technology in India, graduating as the 2nd rank holder in her department. She then...
Joseph Bonneau is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of New York University’s Courant Institute. He holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford, and completed a PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2012, under the supervision of Professor Ross Anderson. Bonneau also completed postdoctoral fellowships at...
Julia B. Kieserman, a Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate at NYU Tandon, is interested in understanding how technology systems might impact human autonomy. Under the guidance of her advisor, Dr. Damon McCoy, she most recently worked on measuring the configuration of trackers on sensitive websites—a project that won Kieserman and her colleagues the 2025 Andreas Pfitzmann...
Md Raz is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, working under the direction of Dr. Ramesh Karri. His research interests focus on developing trustworthy hardware at both the PCB and ASIC levels, with an emphasis on integrating emerging technologies like Field Programmable Gate Arrays, additive manufacturing, and machine learning and /artificial intelligence....
Alon Hillel-Tuch joined NYU Tandon as an Industry Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Fall of 2025, His research interests include hardware security, AI governance, and the intersection of technology and society. He also serves as Faculty Director of the OSIRIS Lab, driving its vision and mentoring students in cybersecurity research. He...
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...