VT Security & Intelligence Lab

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

Current Members

Postdocs

• Basavesh Ammanaghatta Shivakumar (Virginia Tech, 2026-Present) → Assistant Professor, Washington State University

Ph.D. Students

• Saimon Amanuel Tsegai (Virginia Tech, 2024-Present)
• Yutong Cheng (Virginia Tech, 2024-Present)
• Jianan Nie (Virginia Tech, 2023-Present)

M.S. Students

• Aravinda Kashyap (Virginia Tech, 2025-Present)

Research Assistants & Interns

• Tsania Camila Finnisa (Universitas Dian Nuswantoro, 2025-Present)
• Raihan Sultan Pasha Basuki (Universitas Ary Ginanjar, 2025-Present)
• Changze Li (Virginia Tech, 2024-Present)

Alumni

Ph.D. Students

• Osama Bajaber (Virginia Tech, 2025, co-advised with Bo Ji) → Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University

Master's Students

• Rizky Ramadhana Putra Kusnaryanto, M.S. (Virginia Tech, 2026) → Software Engineer, MangoBoost
• Sibo Ma, M.S. (UC Berkeley, 2023) → Research fellow, Stanford University
• Edward Choi, M.S. (UC Berkeley, 2022) → Software Engineer, Balbix
• Changze Cui, M.E. (UC Berkeley, 2020) → Software Engineer, Amazon
• Mingcheng Zhu, M.E. (UC Berkeley, 2020) → Software Engineer, Microsoft
• Tian Qin, M.S. (UC Berkeley, 2020) → Software Engineer, Amazon

Research Assistants & Interns

• Sriram Narlapati (Virginia Tech, 2024)
• Uday Talasila (Virginia Tech, 2024)
• Cameron Portis (GMU, 2024)
• Xianglong Wang (JHU, 2023) → Wyze Lab
• Xinyu Yang (Tsinghua, 2021-2022) → Ph.D. student, HKUST
• Ziyu Wang (HUST, 2021) → Ph.D. student, UC Irvine
• Zilin Zhang (SJTU & UMich, 2021) → M.S. student, Carnegie Mellon University
• Haoyuan Liu (UC Berkeley, 2020–2021) → Meta
• Xinhao Jiang (UC Berkeley, 2020) → M.S. student, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ziyun Zhao (UC Berkeley, 2019) → Google
• Zehao Huang (UC Berkeley, 2019) → Stripe
• Albert Ho (Princeton, 2018) → Meta