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Students and Visitors

It is my great pleasure to work with these wonderful people! 😀

Current Ph.D. Students

  1. Wenyi Tang: Fall 2020 – Present
    Email: wtang3@nd.edu
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Secure Data Sharing, Traceability, Blockchain
  2. Nirajan Koirala: Fall 2021 – Present
    Email: nkoirala@nd.edu
    Web: https://n7koirala.github.io/
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Trusted Execution Environment
  3. Shankha Shubhra Mukherjee: Fall 2022 – Summer 2024
    Email: smukher4@nd.edu
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Blockchain, Web3, Authentication
  4. Tasha Januszewicz: Fall 2023 – Present
    Email: ajanusze@nd.edu
    Web: https://sites.nd.edu/tasha-januszewicz/
    Research interests: Lattice-based Cryptography
  5. Showkot Hossain: Fall 2024 – Present
    Email: TBD
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Blockchain, Web3
  6. Micah Brody: Fall 2024 – Present
    Email: TBD
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Cryptography
  7. Jenna Zhao: Fall 2024 – Present
    Email: TBD
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Cryptography

Ph.D. Alumni

  1. Ryan Karl (Spring 2018 – Fall 2021)
    Initial employment: Security Researcher, Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
    ryankarl915@gmail.com
  2. Jonathan Takeshita: Fall 2018 – Fall 2023
    Initial employment: Software Engineer, Cornami
    Web: https://sites.nd.edu/jonathan-takeshita
  3. Changhao Chenli: Fall 2018 – Summer 2024
    Initial employment: TDB
    Email: cchenli@nd.edu
    Web: https://sites.nd.edu/changhao-chenli/

Visitors

  1. Chanyang Ju (Ph.D. student at Hanyang University, Summer 2021 – Spring 2022)
    For collaboration on Zero-knowledge Proof and Blockchain
  2. Gwangwoon Lee (MS student at Hanyang University, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
    For collaboration on Zero-knowledge Proof and Blockchain
  3. Hyeonbum Lee (Ph.D. student at Hanyang University, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)
    For collaboration on Zero-knowledge Proof and Blockchain
  4. Kyuwhan Lee (MS student at Hanyang University, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)
    For collaboration on Zero-knowledge Proof and Blockchain
  5. Mikyung Park (Summer 2023 – Fall 2023)
    For collaboration on Malware analysis and Cyberattack defense.

Current and Past Undergraduate Students

  1. Hannah Burchfield (University of Notre Dame): Summer 2018 – Fall 2018
    Research interests: Cryptography, Function computability.
  2. Cian Levy (Trinity College Dublin): Summer 2019
    Research interests: Cryptography, Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption
  3. Ting Gong (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2020 – Spring 2021
    Research interests: Lattice-based Cryptography, Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  4. Kathryn Hund (Saint Mary’s College): Spring 2020 – Spring 2021
    Research interests: Secure deep learning
  5. Justin Pajak (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2020 – Summer 2021
    Research interests: Secure deep learning, Trusted Execution Environment
  6. Frank Gomulka (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2021
    Research interests: Blockchain
  7. Colin McKechney (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2021 – Fall 2021
    Research interests: Lattice-based Cryptography, Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  8. Parker Moore (University of Notre Dame): Summer 2022 – Fall 2022
    Research interests: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  9. Nathan Piecyk (University of Notre Dame): Summer 2023 – Fall 2023
    Research interests: Cyberattack emulation, Log analysis
  10. John Kapustka (University of Notre Dame): Summer 2023
    Research interests: Cyberattack emulation, Log analysis
  11. Daniela Medrano Gutiérrez (Universidad Panamericana): Summer 2023 – Fall 2023
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Private Stream Aggregation
  12. Allen Uy (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023 – ???
    Research interests: Cyberattack and defense
  13. Chris Boumalhab (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  14. Jeremy Arellano (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023
    Research interests: Cyberattack and defense
  15. Jack Munhall (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023
    Research interests: Cyberattack and defense
  16. Jeremy Stevens (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  17. Jenna Zhao (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2024
    Research interests: Mathematics and Applications to Cryptography
  18. Sam Martin (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2024 – Summer 2024
    Research interests: Cybersecurity

High School Students

  1. John Thomason (Marian High School, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020): Homomorphic encryption and its application on privacy-preserving ridge regression.
  2. Jayden Bell (Penn High School, Summer 2020): Study and implementation of Bitcoin protocols.
    • Final report: [pdf]
  3. Maria Glazman (Trinity High School, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021): Homomorphic encryption and its application on privacy-preserving data mining
  4. Katrina Fay (Trinity High School, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022): Homomorphic encryption and its application on privacy-preserving data mining
    • Trinity Research Symposium [slide]
  5. Rose Kavanagh (Marian High School, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022): Homomorphic encryption and its application on privacy-preserving data mining
  6. Gustavo Pereira Corsi da Silva (Penn High School, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022): Homomorphic encryption and its application on privacy-preserving data mining
    • Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NIRSEF) [slide][video]
  7. Brennan Miller (Penn High School, Fall 2022): Homomorphic Encryption
  8. Rishita Maheshwaram (Penn High School, Fall 2022): Homomorphic Encryption
  9. Tory Temeles (Penn High School, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023): Homomorphic Encryption
    • Github repository [link]
  10. Johann Monte (Marian High School, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023): Homomorphic Encryption
  11. Selma Imamovic (Penn High School, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023): Homomorphic Encryption
  12. Kenneth Lee (The Bronx High School of Science, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023): Homomorphic Encryption
    • Github repository [link]
  13. Jessica Fay (Trinity School at Greenlawn, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023): Homomorphic Encryption
    • Github repository [link]