Security and Cryptography Alumni
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2026
Alisha Ukani (Ph.D. 2026) UW postdoc
2025
Ben Du (Ph.D. 2025) UCLA postdoc
Enze Alex Liu (Ph.D. 2025) CMU postdoc
Keegan Ryan (Ph.D. 2025)Trail of Bits
George Sullivan (Ph.D. 2025)
Evan Johnson (Ph.D. 2025) NYU
Naomi Smith (Ph.D. 2025) Flexwash
2024
Mark Schultz (Ph.D. 2024) Fabric Cryptography

Leo Cao (M.S. 2024) University of Wisconsin Ph.D. program

Doreen Riepel (postdoc 2023-2024) CISPA

2023
Nishant Bhaskar (Ph.D. 2023) MQ Prime
Hannah Davis (Ph.D. 2023) Seagate
Ariana Mirian (Ph.D. 2023) CensysBeesafe
Audrey Randall (Ph.D. 2023) Google

Annie Dai (B.S. 2023) University of Maryland Ph.D. program
Kaiwen He (B.S. 2023) MIT Ph.D. program

Grant Ho (postdoc 2021-2023)University of Chicago
Gabrielle De Micheli (postdoc 2021-2023)LG
Alex Marder (postdoc 2019-2020, Res. Scientist 2020-2023)Johns Hopkins University

2022
Gautam Akiwate (Ph.D. 2022) Stanford postdocApple
Sam Crow (Ph.D. 2022) Meta
Craig Disselkoen (Ph.D. 2022)Amazon
Shravan Narayan (Ph.D. 2022) UT Austin
John Renner (Ph.D. 2022) Cubist
Bingyu Shen (Ph.D. 2022) Meta
Jessica Sorrell (Ph.D. 2022) UPenn (postdoc)JHU

Isabel Suizo (B.S. 2022) GoogleCMU Ph.D. program

Daniel Moghimi (postdoc 2020-2022) Google

2021
Alex Gamero-Garrido (Ph.D. 2021) NEU PostdocUC Davis
Ruth Ng (Ph.D. 2021) DSO National Laboratories
Baiyu Li (Ph.D. 2021) Google
Chengcheng Xiang (Ph.D. 2021) Meta
Wei Dai (Ph.D. 2021) Bain Capital Crypto1kx
Marcella Hastings (Ph.D. 2021, UPenn(Heninger)) Bolt LabsGalois
Vivek Arte (M.S. 2021)QEDIT
2020
Sunjay Cauligi (Ph.D. 2021)
MPI Security and Privacy (postdoc)
Klaus von Gleissenthall (postdoc 2016-2020) VU Amsterdam (assistant professor)
Guo "Vector" Li (Ph.D. 2020) Google
2019
Igors Stepanovs (Ph.D. 2019) ETH Zurich postdocAmazon
Felix Guenther (postdoc 2018-2019) ETH Zurich postdocIBM Resarch Zurich
Joseph Jaeger (Ph.D. 2019) University of Washington postdocGeorgia Tech
Nicholas Genise (Ph.D. 2019) Rutgers University postdocSRIDuality TechnologiesApple
Zhaomo Yang (Ph.D. 2019) Google
Louis DeKoven (Ph.D. 2019) Meta
Brown Farinholt (Ph.D. 2019) Meta

Maxwell Bland (M.S. 2019) University of Illinois Ph.D. program
Brian Johannesmeyer Vrije Universiteit Ph.D. programQualcomm

Gary Soeller MasonGoliothCannonical

2018
Joe DeBlasio (Ph.D. 2018) Google
David Kohlbrenner (Ph.D. 2018) UC Berkeley (postdoc)University of Washington
Michael Walter (Ph.D. 2018) IST Vienna, Austria (postdoc)

Brian Kantor (retired 2018) ARDC
Liz Izhikevich (M.S. 2018) Stanford Ph.D. programUCLA
Evan Roncevich (M.S. 2018) Sandia National Labs

Hovav Shacham (CSE faculty) University of Texas, AustinUCSD (part two)

2017
Tianyin Xu (Ph.D. 2017) Facebook (Visiting Scientist)University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Danny Huang (Ph.D. 2017) Princeton (postdoc)NYU
Xinxin Jin (Ph.D. 2017) WhovaLinkedinMeta
2016
Björn Tackmann (postdoc 2014–2016)IBM Research ZurichDFINITY
Wilson Lian (Ph.D. 2016) Google
Karyn Benson (Ph.D. 2016) AkamaiMeta

Benjamin Braun (M.S. 2016) Facebook
Jacob (Maskiewicz) Cordero (M.S. 2016) Facebook

2015
Neha Chachra (Ph.D. 2015) Facebook
Matthew Der (Ph.D. 2015) NotchCapital One
Tristan Halvorson (Ph.D. 2015) Google
He Liu (Lonnie) (Ph.D. 2015) GoogleLoonAnyscale
Keaton Mowery (Ph.D. 2015) Apple
Bhanu Vattikonda (Ph.D. 2015) AppleGoogle

Gautam Akiwate (M.S. 2015) PureStorageUCSD CSE Ph.D. program
Ian Foster (M.S. 2015) SalesforceGoogleSnap
Radheshyam Balasundaram (M.S. 2015) Google

2014
Léo Ducas (postdoc 2013–2014) CWI Amsterdam
Viet Tung Hoang (postdoc 2013–2014) UMD/Georgetown (postdoc)UCSB (postdoc) → Florida State University

Sriram Keelveedhi (Ph.D. 2014)GoogleSnapGrammarlyOpenAI
Do-kyum Kim (Ph.D. 2014)GoogleAirbnbMoveworks
Feng Lu (Ph.D. 2014)GoogleDatabricks
Sarah Meiklejohn (Ph.D. 2014)UCLUCL and Google
Jason Oberg (Ph.D. 2014)Tortuga Logic (becomes Cycuity)Arteris
David Wang (Ph.D. 2014)GoogleEtsyUber
Qing Zhang (Ph.D. 2014)Google

Chris Gardner (M.S. 2014) ArrisSeismic Software
Devin Lundberg (M.S. 2014)Pinterest
Qiushi Wang (M.S. 2014) Google

Alexandros Kapravelos (Visiting Ph.D. 2014) UCSBNC State
Keith Marzullo (CSE faculty) NSF CISE DDDean at UMDDean at UMass

2013
Vacha Dave (Postdoc 2013)Microsoft
Christian Kreibich (Researcher 2012–2013)
LastlineCorelight
Nicholas Weaver (Researcher 2012–2013)ICSI and UC BerkeleyICSI and UC DavisICSI and Skerry Technologies

Vinh The Lam (Ph.D. 2013)GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
Petros Mol (Ph.D. 2013)Google
Andreas Pitsillidis (Ph.D. 2013)GoogleBridgewater Associates
Gjergji Zyba (Ph.D. 2013)Meraki

Michael Goldberg (M.S. 2013) Google

2012
Nadia Heninger (postdoc 2011–2012) Microsoft Research New EnglandPennUCSD
Stefano Tessaro (postdoc 2010–2012) MIT (postdoc)UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of Washington

Stephen Checkoway (Ph.D. 2012) Johns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of Illinois, ChicagoOberlin College
Chris Kanich (Ph.D. 2012) University of Illinois, Chicago
John McCullough (Ph.D. 2012) Google

Soumyarupa De (M.S. 2012) MicrosoftGooglePaper Crane LabsOracle
Rafael Dowsley (M.S. 2012) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Ph.D. program)Monash University
Deepika Gopal (M.S. 2012) Cisco
Aishwarya Venkataraman (M.S. 2012) StackIQTeradataAmazon

George Varghese (Faculty 1999–2012) Microsoft ResearchUCLA

2011
Damon McCoy (Postdoc 2009–2011) George Mason UniversityNYU
David Cash (postdoc 2009–2011) IBM ResearchRutgers UniversityUniversity of Chicago

Panagiotis Voulgaris (Ph.D. 2011) Google
Marti Motoyama (Ph.D. 2011) FitBitStripeGoogle
Michael Vrable (Ph.D. 2011) Google

Sushma Bannur (M.S. 2011) MicrosoftFacebook
Sambit Das (M.S. 2011) CiscoAvi Networks
Kourosh Derakshan (M.S. 2011) QualcommGoogle
Moitrayee Gupta (M.S. 2011) NetAppAppFormixJuniper NetworksTromzoIronclad

2010
Thomas Ristenpart (Ph.D. 2010) University of Wisconsin at MadisonCornell TechUniversity of Toronto
Scott Yilek (Ph.D. 2010) University of St. Thomas
Justin Ma (Ph.D. 2010) UC Berkeley (postdoc)GoogleTreasureSpellguard
Patrick Verkaik (Ph.D. 2010) Meraki

Grace Wang (M.S. 2010)Qualcomm

Brandon Enright (B.S. 2010) Cisco

2009
Barath Raghavan (Ph.D. 2009) Williams CollegeICSIGoogleUSC

Todor Ristov (M.S. 2009)MotorolaQualcommSquareSkydioAuroraDoorDash
Ryan Roemer (M.S. 2009) MicrosoftIP StreetCuriosity MediaNearform Commerce/Formidable Labs

2008
Vadim Lyubashevsky (Ph.D. 2008)Tel Aviv University (postdoc)ENS ParisIBM Zurich
David Moore Cisco SystemsGoogleVectra AI

Varun Almaula (M.S. 2008) CiscoHealth Technology ForumCyber DefendersChan Zuckerberg InitiativeIndependent consultant
Erik Buchanan (2008) WebsenseGoogleConnectifierLinkedInCloseFactorSemgrep
Seung-Won Lee (M.S. 2008)
Sarah Shoup (M.S. 2008)Booz Allen Hamilton

2007
Alper Mizrak (Ph.D. 2007)VMWare
Saurabh Panjwani (Ph.D. 2007)Microsoft Research India (postdoc) → Bell Labs India
Sean Peisert (Ph.D. 2007)UC Davis and LBNL

David Anderson (M.S. 2007) Move NetworksMozyVMWareEMCGoogle
Chris Fleizach (M.S., 2007)Apple
Nabil Schear (M.S., 2007)UIUC Ph.D. programMIT Lincoln LaboratoryNetflixGoogle

2006
Alejandro Hevia (Ph.D. 2006)Universidad de Chile
Tadayoshi Kohno (Ph.D. 2006)University of WashingtonUniversity of Georgetown
Anton Mityagin (Ph.D. 2006)MicrosoftQualcommGood TechnologyDropboxYandexTolokaBaseten
Adriana Palacio (Ph.D. 2006)BowdoinGSD Plus S.A.S.
2005
Haixia Shi (M.S. 2005)NVIDIAGoogleAppleInstagram
Chong Zhang (M.S. 2005)
2004
Alexandra Boldyreva (Ph.D. 2004)Georgia Tech
Bogdan Warinschi (Ph.D. 2004)UC Santa Cruz/INRIAUniversity of Bristol

Robert Miller (M.S. 2004)
Scott O’Neil (M.S. 2004)Microsoft
Yekaterina Tsipenyuk (M.S. 2004)FortifyHPMicrofocusOpenTextVantage Academy
Juliana Wong (M.S. 2004)QualcommGoogle
Erik Vandekieft (M.S. 2004) IBMNECTap11CircleUpAVOSCircleUpLyftFacebook

2003
Bennet Yee (Faculty 1996–2003)GoogleSnapchatOasis Labs

Cristian Estan (Ph.D. 2003)University of WisconsinNetLogicBroadcomGoogle
Sara Miner More (Ph.D. 2003)McDaniel CollegeJohns Hopkins

Doug Brown (M.S. 2003)NYU Law SchoolU.S. Department of JusticeChapin Fitzgerald LLP Abelson, Herron and Halpern LLP Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP
Matt Hohfeld (M.S. 2003)Qualcomm
Rahul Lahoti (M.S. 2003)MicrosoftColumbia School of International and Public AffairsCenter for Evaluation and Global Action
Vivek Manpuria (M.S. 2003)Kyocera WirelessQualcommCiscoPanasonic AvionicsYahooComcast
Aditya Ojha (M.S. 2003) Sun MicrosystemsCiscoGoogleDatabricks
Poorna Udupi (M.S. 2003)Sun MicrosystemsNetflixLyra HealthGood MoneyVinyl Equity

2002
Chanathip Namprempre (Ph.D. 2002) Thammasat UniversityReed CollegePenumbra Security

Eugene Tsyrklevich (M.S. 2002) Security ArchitectsMorgan StanleyParkopediaArrive

2001
Michel Abdalla (Ph.D. 2001)École Normale Supérieure
Jee Hea An (Ph.D. 2001)Softmax

Fritz Schneider (M.S. 2001)GoogleAttic LabsProtocol LabsRocicorpOffline Studio
Michael Semanko (M.S. 2001)EntropiaLockheed MartinNetsiftCisco

2000
Anand Desai (Ph.D. 2000)NTT Multimedia Communications LabsVisaCryspJP Morgan Chase

Edward Elliot (M.S., 2000)

1999
Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Ph.D. 1999)Telcordia (now Peraton Labs)
1997
Markus Jakobsson (Ph.D. 1997)Bell LabsRSA LabsIndiana UniversityPARCLifeLockPayPalFat SkunkQualcommAgariAmber SolutionsByteDanceArtema Labs

Eron Jokipii (M.S. 1997)Yahoo