People

Faculty

Ph.D. Students

  • Chenyi Wang, Jan. 2023 - Present (BS, University of Minnesota; MS, Columbia University)
  • Jingcheng Li, Aug. 2019 - Present (MS, Syracuse University), co-advised with Loukas Lazos
  • Ziqi Xu,  Aug. 2019 - Present (MS, Syracuse University), co-advised with Loukas Lazos
  • Xiaolan Gu, Aug. 2018 - Present (BS & MS, Beihang University)
  • Zhiwu Guo, Aug. 2017 - Present (BS & MS, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), co-advised with Marwan Krunz

Alumni

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    • Iraklis Leontiadis, Oct. 2015 – Oct. 2016 (Ph.D, Eurecom, France)
      Initial Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, New Jersey Institute of Technology
      Second Employment: Senior Researcher at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory, EPFL.
      Current Employment: Senior Researcher at Inpher.

  • Ph.D. Students
    • Bo Jiang (co-advised with Ravi Tandon),  Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2023
      Dissertation: “ Improving Privacy-utility Tradeoffs in Privacy-preserving Data Release with Context Information "
      Initial Employment: Privacy Research Scientist, TikTok
    • Yanmao Man,  Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2022
      Dissertation: “ Attacks and Defenses on Autonomous Vehicles: From Sensor Perception to Control Area Networks "
      Initial Employment: Senior Engineer, HERE Technologies
    • Mohamed Seif (co-advised with Ravi Tandon), Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Jan. 2017 – May 2022
      Dissertation: “ Security and Privacy in Information Systems: Algorithms and Fundamental Limits"
      Initial Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University
    • Tianchi Zhao, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Aug. 2016 – Jan. 2022
      Dissertation: “Online Learning Based Performance Optimization in Wireless Networks with Context Information "
      Initial Employment: Engineer, LitePoint
    • Mingshun Sun, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Aug. 2016 – Dec. 2021
      Dissertation: “Secure Motion Claim Verification and Decision-Making for Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems "
      Initial Employment: Senior Data Scientist, HERE Technologies
    • Yanjun Pan, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Aug. 2016 – Aug. 2021
      Dissertation: “Enhance Wireless Network Performance and Security with Reconfigurable Antennas "
      Initial Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE department, Virginia Tech, VA
      Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
    • Boyang Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Jan. 2014 – Jul. 2017
      Dissertation: “Secure Geometric Search on Encrypted Spatial Data"
      Initial Employment: Assistant Professor      , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, OH.
    • Yantian Hou, Ph.D. in Computer Science, USU, Jan. 2012 – Jul. 2016
      Dissertation: “Interference Mitigation in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Advanced Physical-Layer Techniques”
      Initial Employment: Assistant Professor, Boise State University, Boise, ID.

  • Ph.D. Students Collaborated With
    • Nirnimesh Ghose, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, Jul. 2019 (Advised by Loukas Lazos)
      Dissertation: “Authentication and Message Integrity Verification without Secrets"
      Initial Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

  • Visiting Ph.D. Students
    • Wenjing Zhang, Ph.D.Student in Information Security, Xidian University, Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2018
    • Hanyu Quan, Ph.D.Student in Cyptography, Xidian University, Sept. 2015 – Sept. 2017
      Initial Employment: Lecturer, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China.
    • Shuo Qiu, Ph.D.Student in Computer Science and Technology, Beijing JiaoTong University, Oct. 2014 – Nov. 2015
      Initial Employment: Lecturer, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China.
    • Boyang Wang, Ph.D.Student in Cyptography, Xidian University, Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2013
      Initial Employment: Ph.D. student, CS@USU.

  • M.S. Students Graduated
    • Jesse Victors, M.S. in Computer Science, USU, Jan. 2014 – May 2015
      Thesis: “The Onion Name System: Tor-Powered Distributed DNS for Tor Hidden Services”
      Initial Employment: Cigital.

  • Undergraduate Thesis Supervised
    • Max Von Hippel, Aug. 2018 - May 2019, University of Arizona, B.S. in Math and Minor in CS
      Honors Thesis: “Toward Automatic Vulnerability Discovery in CPS of Interdependent IoT Devices”
      Initial Employment: Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Northeastern University.
      Major Awards: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, First place in UA Computer Science Undergraduate Showcase, UA Math Department Excellence in Research Award.

  • Undergraduate Student Internships Supervised
    • Tyler Wong, Nick Smith, Summer 2021, AEOP URAP program (Co-advised with Loukas Lazos)
      Research Topic: “Secure Vehicle Platooning Membership Verification”

  • High School Student Internships Supervised
    • David Li, Ethan Sayre and Richard Peng, Summer 2021, AEOP HSAP program (Co-advised with Loukas Lazos)
      Research Topic: “Secure Wireless Trust Establishment for Heterogeneous IoT Devices”

    • Group Pictures


    May, 2019. From left to right: Tianchi Zhao, Yanjun Pan, Bo Jiang, Xiaolan Gu, Ahmed Salama, Ming Li, Mohamed Seif, Zhiwu Guo, Max Von Hippel, Mingshun Sun, Yanmao Man.
    Jul. 2021. AEOP Summer Apprenticeship participants. Left to right: Associate professor Ming Li and professor Loukas Lazos; Students: Ethan Sayre, Nick Smith, Tyler Wong, David Li and Richard Peng; Graduate student mentors: Jingcheng Li, Ziqi Xu and Yanjun Pan.