Current Lab-Affiliated Students

• Minxing Zhang, PhD researcher at CISPA, co-advised with Michael Backes
• Yuan Xin, PhD researcher at CISPA, co-advised with Michael Backes
• Jia Fu, PhD researcher collaborated at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Former Lab-Affiliated Students

• Advik Raj Basani, intern, 08/2025-12/2025 → MATS Research Fellow at AI Security Institute
• Youngjin Kwon, reserach assistant, 05/2024-04/2026 → intern at BMW Group
• Somrita Ghosh, research assistant, 06/2023-02/2025
• Raj Mohan Tumarada, reserach assistant, 08/2023-09/2024 → Embedded Software R&D Engineer at Nokia

Thesis Supervision

• Laurant Halili, Cybersecurity BSc at UdS (ongoing)
• Piyush Pant, CS MSc at UdS (ongoing)
• Youngjin Kwon, CS MSc at UdS (ongoing) → intern at BMW Group
• Advik Raj Basani, CS BE at BITS Goa (2026) → MATS Research Fellow at AI Security Institute
• Divya Nidadavolu, DSAI MSc at UdS (2025) → Junior BCM Coordinator at DocuWare
• Madhurima Ghosh, CS MSc at UdS (2025) → PhD at CISPA
• Devansh Srivastav, DSAI MSc at UdS (2025) → PhD at CISPA
• Subrat Kishore Dutta, CS MSc at UdS (2025) → PhD at AIR-ML at CISPA
• Somrita Ghosh, DSAI MSc at UdS (2025)

Interns & Visitors

• Jia Fu (PhD visitor, 06/2026-present)
• Umang Agarwal (remote intern, 01/2024-12/2024) → PhD student at NUS
• Wenshu Fan (remote PhD visitor, 03/2023-12/2024)
• Zhizhen Chen (remote intern, 04/2024-11/2024) → PhD student at UVa
• Carlo Saccardi (intern, 09/2023-04/2024) → PhD student at TU Delft
• Mohammad Javad Maheronnaghsh (remote intern, 07/2023-12/2023) → Grad student at University of Toronto
• Arash Akbari (intern, 08/2023-09/2023) → PhD student at Northeastern University