Students

Hiroki Chen, Ph.D. Student @ IU

Hiroki is a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests lie in the area of computer security, and system security, especially the intersecting point of theoretical and practical security. 

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Weijie Huang, Ph.D. Student @ IU

Weijie is a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests lie at the intersection of confidential computing and high-performance computing, with a recent focus on securing and optimizing LLM infrastructures. 

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Aaron (Jianjun) Lang, Ph.D. Student @ IU

Aaron is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington, advised by Professors Haixu Tang and Xiaofeng Wang. His research sits at the intersection of system security and privacy-preserving computing. Currently, he is investigating how to optimize and accelerate Large Language Model (LLM) infrastructures using Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and TEE-based hardware. 

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Weili Wang, Ph.D. Student @ Duke

Weili is a PhD student at Duke University, advised by Professor Michael Reiter. His research focuses on the design and implementation of distributed confidential computing systems with strong privacy guarantees. He is currently working on mitigating side-channel leakage in distributed confidential workloads through efficient cover workflow generation.

Sixuan (Nick) Dang, Ph.D. Student @ Duke

Sixuan is a third-year PhD student advised by Prof. Danfeng Zhang at Duke University Department of Computer Science. He is currently working on ensuring information flow security with static analysis.

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Veronica Lin, Ph.D. Student @ CMU

Veronica is a Societal Computing PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, Software and Societal Systems Department, School of Computer Science. Her research focuses on usable security and privacy, tech policy, and access control.

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Sen Yang, Ph.D. Student @ Yale

Sen is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. His research focuses on analyzing potential issues in decentralized systems, especially those related to Maximal Extractable Value (MEV).

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Wenhao Wang, Ph.D. Student @ Yale

Wenhao is a CS PhD student at Yale University advised by Prof. Fan Zhang. His research interests lie in applied cryptography and security, including but not limited to blockchain security, cryptographic protocols and their applications and mechanism design.

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Henry Zhou, Ph.D. Student @ OSU

Henry is a Ph.D. student at the Ohio State University under the advising of Dr. Zhiqiang Lin. His research currently focuses on confidential computing for LLM inference infrastructure. His interests are computer networking and operating system, and security measurements involved to defend these systems.

Yuntao Du, Ph.D. Student @ Purdue

Yuntao is a PhD student in computer science at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Ninghui Li. His research interests lie in Data Privacy and Privacy in Machine Learning. He is also broadly interested in analyzing emerging privacy and security risks arising from recent advances in AI.

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Daphne Jennings, Ph.D. Student @ Spelman

Daphne is a first-year (sophomore by credits) at Spelman College, majoring in Computer Science, with a strong passion for Cybersecurity. She currently holds a Cybersecurity certification from (ISC)², the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, and she is committed to deepening her technical skills and industry knowledge.

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