VT Security & Intelligence Lab

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

Current Members

Current Ph.D. Students

• Saimon Amanuel Tsegai (B.S. at Khalifa University → Ph.D. student at VT), Joining Fall 2024
• Yutong Cheng (B.E. at BJTU → MPhi at CUHK-Shenzhen → Ph.D. student at VT), Spring 2024 - Present. [2024 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship].
• Jianan Nie (B.S. at SUSTech → M.S. at KAUST → Ph.D. student at VT), 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 (B.S. at KAU → M.S. at GWU → Ph.D. student at VT; co-advised with Prof. Bo Ji), Fall 2021 - Present. [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

• Daksh Dave (M.S. student at VT)

Current Undergraduate Students and Interns

• Sriram Narlapati (B.S. student at VT; via 2024 MAOP Summer Research Internship program). [2024 Fincantieri Scholarship].
• Uday Talasila (B.S. student at VT; via 2024 Summer REU)
• Cameron Portis (B.S. student at GMU; via 2024 MAOP Summer Research Internship program)

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

• 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.
• Zichuan Xu (B.E. at HUST), Summer 2022. Next move: CS M.S. student at UBC.
• 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.
• Janet Wang (B.A at Columbia), Summer 2021. Next move: CS Ph.D. student at Tulane 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.