Research Group

Current Ph.D. students

Leo Y. Lin
PhD

Current co-advised Ph.D. students

Ruoyu Song
with A. Bianchi
Ananth Shreekumar
with D. Xu
Brandon Lee
with A. Bianchi

Past Ph.D. students

  • Raymond Muller (2025) Signal & Image Processing Engineer for Security, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Arjun Arunasalam (2025) Assistant Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University
  • Reham Aburas (2024) Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, American University of Sharjah
  • Muslum Ozgur Ozmen (2024) Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University
  • Habiba Farrukh (2023) Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Past co-advised Ph.D. students

  • Doguhan Yeke (2026) Software engineer, Capital One (with A. Bianchi)
  • Khaled Serag (2023) Research Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute (with D. Xu)
  • Abdulellah Alsaheel (2023) Private Security Consultant (with D. Xu)
  • Hyungsub Kim (2024) Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Indiana University (with D. Xu and A. Bianchi)

Supervised M.Sc. students with theses

  • Michael Reeves (2021) Investigating Escape Vulnerabilities in Container Runtimes, now at Sandia Labs
  • Siddharth Divi (2021) Unifying Distillation with Personalization in Federated Learning, now Applied Scientist at Amazon

Undergraduate student researchers

  • Jason Perry, now at Google
  • Haozhe Zhou, now a Ph.D. student at CMU
  • Andrew Chu, now a Ph.D. student at UChicago
  • Gaurish Lakhanpal, now an M.Sc. student at UIUC
  • William Carter Bell (Junior, Data Science)
  • Anirudh Giridhar (Junior, Purdue Computer Science minor in Mathematics and Statistics)
  • Kaushik Ramachandran (Senior, Computer Science)
  • Yizhen (Yuen) Yuan (Junior, Purdue CS)
  • Ishan Kaul (Senior, Purdue Computer Science)
  • Sidhartha Agrawal (Sophomore, Purdue Computer Science minor in Mathematics)
  • Yuxuan Yang (Junior, Purdue Computer Science minor in Mathematics and Economics)
  • Rafael Zhu (Freshman, Purdue Computer Science)
  • Nail Tarcan Gul (Senior, Purdue Computer Science)

External research interns

  • Blaise Swartwood (SROP intern program, junior, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
  • Furkan Goksel (GoBoiler Internship Program, Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)
  • Kerem Ors (GoBoiler Internship Program, M.Sc., Computer Science, Sabanci University, Online)
  • Yigit Varli (Summer Intern, Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)
  • Bharat Chandra (Senior, Vellore Institute of Technology, Online)
  • Anirudh Gupta and Mohit Thakur (Junior, Computer Science, IIT Delhi, Online)
  • Mohit Thakur (Junior, Computer Science, IIT Delhi, Online)
  • Berk Aydogmus (Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)
  • Yahya Sungur (Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)
  • Burak Ucar (Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)
  • Berkin Kerim Konar (Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)
  • Kerem Serttas (Senior, Computer Science, Middle East Technical University, Online)