VT Security & Intelligence Lab
I have been very fortunate to work with a group of excellent students.
Current Ph.D. Students
- Yang Liu (Virginia Tech, joined Fall 2025)
- Saimon Amanuel Tsegai (Virginia Tech, joined Fall 2024) [2025 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship]
- Yutong Cheng (Virginia Tech, joined Spring 2024) [2025 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship, 2024 Bitshares Fellowship, 2024 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship]
- Jianan Nie (Virginia Tech, joined Spring 2023) [2025 Summer Internship at Roche (Computer-aided Drug Discovery), 2025 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship, 2024 Summer Internship at Microsoft Research Asia (AI4Science), 2023 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship, IEEE S&P 2023 Student Travel Grant]
- Osama Bajaber (Virginia Tech, joined Fall 2021, co-advised with Bo Ji) [2025 Summer Internship at Meta (Malware Analysis), 2024 Davenport Leadership Fellowship, IEEE S&P 2024 Student Travel Grant, 2024 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship, 2023 Bitshares Fellowship, 2023 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship, IEEE ICNP 2022 Student Travel Grant]
Current M.S. Students
- Rizky Ramadhana Putra Kusnaryanto (Virginia Tech, joined Fall 2024) [2025 CCI Cyber Innovation Scholarship]
Current Research Interns & Undergraduate Students
- Changze Li (Virginia Tech, joined Fall 2024)
- Raihan Sultan Pasha Basuki (Universitas Ary Ginanjar, joined Summer 2025)
Alumni
Graduated Master's Students
- Sibo Ma, M.S. (UC Berkeley, 2023) → First job: Research fellow, Stanford University.
- Edward Choi, M.S. (UC Berkeley, 2022) → First job: Software Engineer, Balbix
- Changze Cui, M.E. (UC Berkeley, 2020) → First job: Software Engineer, Amazon
- Mingcheng Zhu, M.E. (UC Berkeley, 2020) → First job: Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Tian Qin, M.S. (UC Berkeley, 2020) → First job: Software Engineer, Amazon
Former Undergraduate Students and Interns
- Sriram Narlapati (Virginia Tech, Summer 2024, via MAOP Summer Research Internship program) [2024 Fincantieri Scholarship].
- Uday Talasila (Virginia Tech, Summer 2024, via Summer REU)
- Cameron Portis (GMU, Summer 2024, via MAOP Summer Research Internship program)
- Xianglong Wang (JHU, Summer 2023) → Wyze Lab
- Xinyu Yang (Tsinghua, Fall 2021–Fall 2022) → Ph.D. student, HKUST
- Ziyu Wang (HUST, Summer 2021) → Ph.D. student, UC Irvine
- Zilin Zhang (SJTU & UMich, Summer 2021) → M.S. student, Carnegie Mellon University
- Haoyuan Liu (UC Berkeley, Fall 2020 – Fall 2021) → Meta
- Xinhao Jiang (UC Berkeley, Fall 2020) → M.S. student, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ziyun Zhao (UC Berkeley, Fall 2019) → Google
- Zehao Huang (UC Berkeley, Fall 2019) → Stripe
- Albert Ho (Princeton, Spring 2018) → Meta