News

  • Oct. 2024 Nurlan and Ravan win first and second place at the ACM SRC competition at PACT 2024
  • Feb. 2024 Ahmed's paper wins the "Zoox Autodriving Security Award" at VehicleSec -- congratulations!
  • Feb. 2024 New paper on shared state AR/VR attacks accepted to Usenix security'24 -- congratulations, Yicheng, Erfan and Pedram!
  • Jan. 2024 Multimodal Jailbreak paper accepted as a spotlight paper (5%) to ICLR--congratulations Erfan!
  • Nov. 2023 Erfan's multimodal LLM Jailbreak paper wins best paper award at SoCal NLP symposium (3/155 papers) -- congrats, Erfan!

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  • Teaching


    Current Lab members-- I work with the following talented group


    Past PhD. Students/Postdocs

    • Abdulrahman Bin Rabiah, 2023, Lucid (co-advised with Silas Richelson)
    • Ahmed Abdo, 2022, Advanced Physics Lab., John's Hopkins University
    • Esmaeil "Reza" Mohammadian Koruyeh, 2022, Samsung Research
    • Sankha Dutta, 2022, post-doc, PNNL
    • Shafiur Rahman, 2021, Facebook (co-advised with Rajiv Gupta)
    • Hodjat Asghari Esfeden, 2021, Google
    • Hoda Naghibijouybari, 2020, Assistant Professor, Binghamton University (CS)
    • Fatemah Alharbi, 2020, Assistant Professor, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
    • Khaled Khasawneh, 2019, Assistant Professor, George Mason University (ECE)
    • Israat Tanzeena Haque, 2016-2018 (post-doc), Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University (CS)
    • Dmitry Evtyushkin, 2017, Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
    • Jesse Elwell, 2016, Vencore Labs (formerly Bell Labs/Telecordia; co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
    • Ketan Bahulkar, 2016, Assistant Professor, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
    • Mehmet Kayaalp, 2015, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
    • Meltem Ozsoy, 2015, Intel Security and Privacy Lab. (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
    • Jingjing Wang, 2014, Hulu (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
    • Adnan Majeed, 2014, Facebook
    • Vikram Munishwar, 2013, Cisco
    • Seon Yeong Han, 2010, Research Assistant Prof., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    • Saquib Razak, 2009, Teaching Associate Prof., Carnegie Mellon University
    • Weishuai Yang, 2008, Bloomberg
    • Vinay Kolar, 2007, IBM Research
    • Ke Liu, 2007, Barclay's Bank
    • Sameer Tilak, 2006, Research Scientist, University of California at San Diego
    • Paul Rogers, 2006, IBM

    Selected Recent Professional Service

    • 23: ISCA, ASPLOS (ERC), HPCA, SIGSIM-PADS
    • 22: Micro, ISCA, IPDPS, SIGSIM-PADS, ASPLOS (ERC), HASP