VT Security & Intelligence Lab

I have been very fortunate to work with a group of excellent students.

Current Members

Current Ph.D. Students

• Saimon Amanuel Tsegai, Fall 2024 - Present.
• Yutong Cheng, Spring 2024 - Present. [2024 Bitshares Fellowship, 2024 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship]
• Jianan Nie, Spring 2023 - Present. [2024 Summer Internship at Microsoft Research Asia AI4Science, 2023 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship, IEEE S&P 2023 Student Travel Grant]
• Osama Bajaber, co-advised with Bo Ji, Fall 2021 - Present. [2025 Summer Internship at Meta, 2024 Davenport Leadership Fellowship, IEEE S&P 2024 Student Travel Grant, 2024 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship, 2023 Bitshares Fellowship, 2023 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship, IEEE ICNP 2022 Travel Grant]

Current Master's Students

• Rizky Ramadhana P. K., Fall 2024 - Present

Current Undergraduate Students, Research Assistants, and Interns

• Changze Li, Fall 2024 - Present

Alumni

Former Master's Students

• Sibo Ma (M.S. at UC Berkeley), graduated in 2023. Next move: Research fellow at Stanford University.
• Edward Choi (M.S. at UC Berkeley), graduated in 2022. Next move: Software engineer at Balbix.
• Changze Cui (M.E. at UC Berkeley), graduated in 2020. Next move: Software engineer at Amazon.
• Mingcheng Zhu (M.E. at UC Berkeley), graduated in 2020. Next move: Software engineer at Microsoft.
• Tian Qin (M.S. at UC Berkeley), graduated in 2020. Next move: Software engineer at Amazon.

Former Undergraduate Students and Interns

• Daksh Dave (B.E. student at BITS Pilani), Summer 2024.
• Sriram Narlapati (B.S. student at VT; via MAOP Summer Research Internship program), Summer 2024. [2024 Fincantieri Scholarship].
• Uday Talasila (B.S. student at VT; via Summer REU), Summer 2024.
• Cameron Portis (B.S. student at GMU; via MAOP Summer Research Internship program), Summer 2024.
• Xianglong Wang (M.S. at JHU), Summer 2023.
• Xinyu Yang (M.S. at Tsinghua), Fall 2021 - Fall 2022. Next move: CS Ph.D. student at HKUST.
• Ziyu Wang (B.E. at HUST), Summer 2021. Next move: CS Ph.D. student at UC Irvine.
• Zilin Zhang (B.E. at SJTU & UMich), Summer 2021. Next move: CS M.S. student at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Haoyuan Liu (B.S. at UC Berkeley), Fall 2020 - Fall 2021. Next move: Software engineer at Meta.
• Xinhao Jiang (B.S. at UC Berkeley), Fall 2020. Next move: CS M.S. student at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Ziyun Zhao (B.S. at UC Berkeley), Fall 2019. Next move: Software engineer at Google.
• Zehao Huang (B.S. at UC Berkeley), Fall 2019. Next move: Software engineer at Stripe.
• Albert Ho (B.S. at Princeton), Spring 2018. Next move: Software engineer at Meta.