People

Our lab's participants range from professors with dozens of years of experience to high school students. This diversity in background and experience enables us to address real-world problems using fresh perspectives.

Faculty
Postdocs
PhD. Students
Other Students

Faculty

Justin Cappos

Professor and Lab Director - website

Research Interests Solving real world security problems in practice

Projects The Update Framework (TUF) , Uptane , in-toto , gittuf , SBOMit , Just One Turtle , The Archive Framework (TAF) , Atoms of Confusion , CacheCash , Lind , Darnit , ShardGuard , CrashSimulator , PolyPasswordHasher (PPH) , Seattle , Sensibility Testbed , API Blindspots , NetCheck , upPIR , and Virtual Secure Network (VSN)

Publications SCORED 2026, EuroS&P 2026, NDSS 2026, NDSS 2025, ACSAC 2023, USENIX Security 2019, AsiaCCS 2018, MSR 2018, FSE 2017, USENIX Security 2017, USENIX ATC 2017a, USENIX ATC 2017b, USENIX Security 2016, NSDI 2016, and [more]

Software/System Deployments TUF used in Microsoft, IBM, Google, VMware, Redhat, DigitalOcean, Datadog and Docker; tag security in git; Uptane used in over a third of new cars on US roads starting in a few years. in-toto used by thousands of companies including Twitter, PBS, Washington Post, NBC, etc. Seattle deployed on thousands of devices and used in one hundred classes; Stork's security model used in major Linux package managers; etc.

Postdocs

Vidya Lakshmi Rajagopalan

Postdoctoral Associate - website

Research Interests Kernel security, binary analysis, program analysis, reverse engineering, distributed systems security

Projects Lind

Publications ACM CCS 2023, FEAST 2024, and ACE 2010

Marco De Vincenzi

Postdoctoral Associate - website

Research Interests Automotive cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, V2X authentication

Projects SBOMit and Darnit

Publications SCORED 2026, ACM CSUR, IEEE TVT, IEEE TITS, J. Comput. Virol. Hack. Tech., and IEEE OJVT

PhD. Students

Yaxuan(Alice) Wen

Ph.D. Candidate - website

Research Interests System security, software security

Projects Just One Turtle and Lind

Patrick Zielinski

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests Distributed systems, version control systems, and cryptography

Projects gittuf and The Archive Framework (TAF)

Publications EuroS&P 2026, NDSS 2026, VehicleSec 2025, NDSS 2025, and ACSAC 2024

Ann Malavet

Ph.D. Candidate - website

Research Interests Systems security, cryptocurrency fraud, AI application security

Projects Darnit

Qianxi Chen

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests Operating systems, system security, and distributed systems

Projects Lind

Sanchit Sahay

Ph.D. Student - website

Research Interests Build Observability, Operating Systems, Systems Software

Projects in-toto , SBOMit , and Lind

Publications SCORED 2026

Fredrik Wilke

Ph.D. Student - website

Research Interests Operating systems, Systems Security, Computer Architecture

Projects Lind

Other Students

Sihoon (Sean) Kim

Undergraduate Student

Research Interests Systems security, embedded systems

Uk (Jake) Jang

Research Assistant

Research Interests Operating systems, Cybersecurity

Projects SBOMit and Lind

Publications SCORED 2026

Pratham Hegde

Master's Student - website

Research Interests Security, Cryptography

Projects gittuf

Shounak Ghosh

Master's Student - website

Research Interests Systems security, Distributed systems, AI application security

Projects Lind

Mayank Gite

Master's Student

Research Interests System security, Operating systems

Projects Lind

Sahil Zunjarrao

Master's Student - website

Research Interests Software supply chain security, systems security, application security

Projects gittuf