Baturalp Buyukates' completed his postdoc with Salman Avestimehr in 2024 and is now an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham, with the Socio-Technical Systems group of the School of Computer Science. His research interests are in the areas of machine learning, distributed systems, communications, networks, and information theory. His current research focus is on secure, trustworthy, and verifiable federated learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, responsible data economics and valuation for machine learning and analytics, blockchain systems, …

Amogh Pradeep graduated in 2024 and is now at Crowdstrike. His research interests are on Mobile Security and Privacy. Particularly, he wishes to improve the state of user security and privacy. His research so far has included anonymous communication tools for phones and app security and privacy studies. He was advised by David Choffnes.

Elisa Cabana completed a postdoc at IMDEA Networks in 2023 and is now an associate professor at CUNEF Universidad. Her research interests include machine learning, deep learning, and privacy-preserving anomaly detection. She is currently developing an early warning system for predicting epidemic spread and risk of contagion using mobile phone data to detect possible hospitalizations, tracking the risk connections with other users and detecting the most likely places of contagion.

Ercan Ozturk graduated in 2021 and is now a Research Scientist at WhatsApp and Meta. His research interest are in Applied Cryptography, Computer & Network Security, and Privacy. He was advised by Gene Tsudik.

Ivan De Oliveira Nunes graduated in 2021 and is now an Assistant Professor of Computing Security at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His research interests span the fields of Security & Privacy, Computer Networking, Embedded Systems, Applied Cryptography, and their intersections. He was advised by Gene Tsudik.

Sashidhar Jakkamsetti graduated in 2023 and is now a researcher at Bosch Labs. His research interests are in Embedded Systems Security. In particular, Sashi designs hardware/software co-design architectures to enable root-of-trust and related services for resource-constrained IoT devices. He also works on privacy-preserving technologies using applied cryptography (MPC) and secure hardware (TEE). He was advised by Gene Tsudik.

Yoshimichi Nakatsuka graduated in 2023 and is now a postdoc at ETH Zurich. His research interests lie at the intersection of Web security / privacy and Confidential Computing. Through his research, he aims to build secure and private systems that protect our data from malicious parties. He was advised by Gene Tsudik.

Andrew Searles graduated in 2024 and is now working on a gaming startup. His research interests were based in security and privacy, especially in relation to human behavior. He has interests throughout computer science from hardware to networks. He published a user study on CAPTCHAs, including the effects of bias on solving time. He was advised by Gene Tsudik.

Ali Muhammad graduated in 2023 and is now with Apple. His research interests were in identifying and mitigating instances of bias and discriminatory behavior in machine learning algorithms in the wild. He enjoys using methods at the intersection of internet measurement and applied machine learning to answer these questions. He was advised by Alan Mislove.

Alexander Gamero-Garrido completed a postdoc at Northeastern University and is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. His interests lie at the intersection of computer network measurements, cybersecurity and technology policy. In particular, his dissertation studies the networking ports of entry for international Internet traffic flowing towards entire countries. Most recently we've inferred the most influential autonomous systems (AS) in many countries, those with the highest capability to observe …

Umar Iqbal graduated in 2021 and completed a two year postdoc at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. He researches web privacy and security with an aim to bring more transparency and control to the users. Specifically, he uses internet measurement techniques to audit and quantify malicious practices on the web and leverage …

Seoyeon Hwang graduated in 2024 and is now a research scientist at Stealth Software. Her research interests were in the area of Applied Cryptography for data privacy. She explored various cryptographic techniques, such as MPC, PSI, ZKP, HE, etc., and was also interested in genomic security and IoT security relevant to data privacy. She was advised by Gene Tsudik.

Muhammad Talha Paracha gradauted in 2023 and is now a postdoctoral scholar at Ruhr University in Bochum, working with Kevin Borgolte. His research explored the caveats of TLS deployment in different settings – such as the web, mobile and IoT devices. He was advised by David Choffnes.

Johanna Gunawan graduated in 2024 and is now an Assistant Professor of CS and Law at the Maastricht University Law and Tech Lab. Her research spans privacy, consumer protections, and policy. At present, she is focusing on dark patterns and manipulative interfaces that erode user privacy, in the hopes of contributing to better regulation of these practices. She was advised by David Choffnes and Woodrow Hartzog.

Jiang Zhang graduated in 2024 and is now a research scientist at Meta. His research interested were in machine learning and data privacy with applications to network systems. He was advised by Konstantinos Psounis.

Janus Varmarken graduated in 2023 and joined Juniper Networks. He is interested in "anything ubiquitous computing", with a current focus on how smart home devices affect user privacy. He was advised by Athina Markopoulou.

Evita Bakopoulou graduated in 2022 and now works at Google. Her research interests are primarily in the area of Machine Learning and Privacy, specifically in Federated Learning for Mobile Data Privacy. She was advised by Athina Markopoulou.

Hieu Le graduated in 2023 and is now a Senior Technical Advisor at the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology, where he leverages his expertise on privacy, automated systems, and applied machine learning to further the agency’s mission to protect consumers and promote fair competition. His research interests included ads & tracking and privacy within the web and IoT space. Before joining Athina’s research group, Hieu Le’s industry experience included work relating to government contracts, high …