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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: https://iynew.github.io
    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. Tasha Januszewicz: Fall 2023 – Present
    Email: ajanusze@nd.edu
    Web: https://sites.nd.edu/tasha-januszewicz/
    Research interests: Lattice-based Cryptography
  4. Showkot Hossain: Fall 2024 – Present
    Email: shossain@nd.edu
    Web: https://showkoth.github.io
    Research interests: Blockchain, Web3
  5. Micah Brody: Fall 2024 – Present
    Email: mbrody@nd.edu
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Trusted Execution Environment
  6. Jenna Zhao: Fall 2024 – Present
    Email: jzhao7@nd.edu
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Differential Privacy
  7. Yanchen Liu: Fall 2025 – Present
    Email: yliu73@nd.edu
    Web: TBD
    Research interests: Blockchain and Zero-Knowledge Proofs

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; now a tenure-track assistant professor at ODU
    Web: https://sites.nd.edu/jonathan-takeshita
  3. Changhao Chenli: Fall 2018 – Summer 2024
    Initial employment: Tenure-track assistant professor at Indiana Tech.
    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.
  6. Seongho Park (Ph.D. student at Hanyang University, Spring 2024)
    For collaboration on Zero-knowledge Proof and Blockchain
  7. Seunghun Paik (Ph.D. student at Hanyang University, Spring 2025)
    For collaboration on Homomorphic Encryption
  8. Hyunjung Son (Ph.D. student at Hanyang University, Summer 2025)
    For collaboration on Homomorphic Encryption
  9. Yunki Kim (Ph.D. student at Hanyang University, Summer 2025, Fall 2025)
    For collaboration on Homomorphic Encryption

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. Allen Uy (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023 – ???
    Research interests: Cyberattack and defense
  12. Chris Boumalhab (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  13. Jeremy Arellano (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023
    Research interests: Cyberattack and defense
  14. Jack Munhall (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023
    Research interests: Cyberattack and defense
  15. Jeremy Stevens (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  16. Jenna Zhao (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2024
    Research interests: Mathematics and Applications to Cryptography
  17. Daniela Medrano Gutiérrez (Universidad Panamericana): Summer 2023 – Fall 2024
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Private Stream Aggregation
  18. Gustavo Prado Fenzi Aniceto (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2023 – Fall 2024
    Research interests: Web3 System Development
  19. Jonathan D’Alonzo (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2024
    Research interests: Web3 System Development
  20. Tommy Rozgonyi (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2024
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  21. Sam Martin (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2024 – Spring 2025
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  22. Helena Berens (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  23. Ryan Nahm (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2025
    Research interests: Decentralized Query Systems
  24. Kaitlyn Galindez (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2025
    Research interests: Trusted Execution Environment
  25. Jack Nero (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2024 – Fall 2025
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  26. Anna Crimmins (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2025 – Fall 2025
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  27. Kevin Vuong (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2025 – Fall 2025
    Research interests: Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications
  28. Aaron Wang (University of Notre Dame): Spring 2025 – Fall 2025
    Research interests: Decentralized Query Systems
  29. John Whalen (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2025
    Research interests: Lattice-based Cryptography
  30. Will Armsworthy (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2025
    Research interests: Secure Decentralized File Systems
  31. Maria Leal (University of Notre Dame): Fall 2025
    Research interests: Secure Decentralized File Systems

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]
  14. William Pairitz (Marian High School, Fall 2025): Theories of Homomorphic Encryption
  15. Michelle Dew (Marian High School, Fall 2025): Theories of Homomorphic Encryption
  16. Jacob Molnar (Marian High School, Fall 2025): TBD