Data Security and Privacy (DataSec) Lab
For highly-motivated students (Ph.D./M.Sc./Undergraduate) and visiting students/scholars, if you are interested in the research on Security, Privacy and AI, especially their intersections, please send an email to Dr. Hong (yuan.hong AT uconn.edu).
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Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Alumni
- Xinyu Zhang (2019-2024; Visiting from Zhejiang University, Co-advised with Dr. Zhongjie Ba):
- B.Sc., Xidian University
- Researcher at Alibaba Group
- Han Wang (2018-2023):
- M.Sc., Huazhong University of Science & Technology, B.Sc. Wuhan Inst. of Tech.
- Assistant Professor at University of Kansas
- Shangyu Xie (2018-2022):
- B.Sc. (IEEE Honor Class) Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Applied Scientist at Amazon → Visa
- Bingyu Liu (2017-2022):
- M.Sc., IIT, B.Sc., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Assistant Professor at Wentworth Inst. of Tech
- Meisam Mohammady (2016-2020; Co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang):
- M.Sc., Polytech. de Montréal, B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology
- Assistant Professor at Iowa State University
M.Sc. Students
- Nima Naderloui (Co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang)
- Varun Matta from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Co-advised with Dr. Shamik Sural from Undergraduate to M.Sc.)
Undergraduate Students
- Trenyce Taylor (UConn)
- Madhavan Rajagopalan (UConn)
- Sahil Gandhi (UConn)
- Joshua Lee (UConn)
High School Students
- Andy Wan
- Harry Yu (now CS undergraduate student in Cornell)
Research Sponsors (Acknowledgement of Support)
Alumni
- Harrison Hua (Undergraduate RA): now CS M.Sc. Student in Cornell Tech
- Junxin Liu (Undergraduate Intern): now CS Ph.D. Student in Oregon State University
- Mario Morales (Undergraduate RA): now Security Analyst in Accenture
- Truong Pham (Undergraduate RA): now CS Ph.D. Student in University of Texas at Dallas
- Maria Vela Melendez: now Software Engineer
- Nathan Decou: now Software Engineer
- Killian Trolès: now Software Engineer at Uber
- Laureline Dubucq: now Software Engineer
- Zhenyu Meng (M.Sc. in IIT): now CS Ph.D. Student in University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Jingyu Sun (M.Sc. in IIT): now Software Engineer
- Dr. Lan Yao (Visited in 2018 and 2019): Associate Professor, Northeastern University, China
- Li Xu (M.Sc. in IIT): now Software Engineer in Nvidia
- Ersin Dincelli (Ph.D. partially worked with Yuan): now Assistant Professor at University of Colorado at Denver
- Nicholas Rizzo (Undergraduate RA-SUNY STEM): now Ph.D. in Cybersecurity and Security Specialist
- Daniel Ziokowski (Undergraduate RA-SUNY STEM): KPMG
- Nicole Ganz (Undergradudate RA-Honor Thesis): Risk Analyst in PwC
- Other Undergraduate Students in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics: Valecia Stocchetti, Brett Schenkel, Louis Smith, Pete McCarran, Faith Mills, Asif Mahamud, Jesus Arenas, Jillian Stella, Ryan Foster, Lance Porter, Rosa Bautista, Kaitlyn Kelly, Nichole Pinto, Hannah Kabir, David Lin, Chris Prince, Christina D'Antonio, etc. [First Class Graduated in 2016]