Principal Investigator

Siddharth Garg Siddharth Garg received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, and a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Enginerring from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He joined NYU in Fall 2014 as an Assistant Professor, and prior to that, was an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo from 2010-2014. His general research interests are in computer engineering, and more particularly in secure, reliable and energy-efficient computing.

Siddharth is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2015) and has received paper awards at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2016, USENIX Security Symposium 2013, at the Semiconductor Research Consortium (SRC) TECHCON in 2010, and the International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design (ISQED) in 2009. He was listed in Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant 10" researchers of 2016. Siddharth also received the Angel G. Jordan Award from ECE department of Carnegie Mellon University for outstanding thesis contributions and service to the community. 

Research Associates

Farhad Shirani received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan in December 2016 with Prof. Sandeep Pradhan and an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 2016. He was employed as a lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan in 2017. Before joining University of Michigan he was a member of the Information Systems and Security Lab (ISSL) at Sharif University of Technology where he received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. Currently, I he is a research assistant professor at NYU. The main focus of his research is on network communications, fundamental limits of multi-terminal communications as well as network security and privacy.
 

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

Mohamed El-Massad (PhD Candidate, 2013-) Mohamed received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Khartoum in 2009 (where he received several awards for his academic performance), an MASc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2013, and is currently a Ph.D. student at NYU. His research interests include secure hardware design methodologies and hardware IP protection.
 

Maria Isabel Mera (PhD candidate, 2014- ) Maria Isabel a Ph.D. student at NYU. Her research interests include reliable, secure and trustworthy hardware design and detection techniques. She was previously a Fulbright Fellow at Stony Brook University where she received her MSc in Electrical Engineering.
 

 Zahra Ghodsi (PhD Candidate, 2015-) Zahra is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University and a recipient of the Ernst Weber Fellowship from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Zahra received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2013 and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from New York University in 2015.

Jeff Jun Zhang (PhD Candidate, 2015-)  Jeff is the recipient of the Ernst Weber Fellowship for his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University since 2015. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Computer Engineering with Magna Cum Laude from Hunan University, Changsha, China. Before coming to NYU, he had a great time in Chongqing University, Columbia University and Oklahoma State University as a visiting student. During his time in Hunan University, he was awarded Outstanding Graduates of Hunan Province and National Scholarship from Ministry of Education of China. 

Kang Liu (Ph.D. candidate, 2016- ) Kang is the recipient of the Ernst Weber Fellowship for his Ph.D.program in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University since 2016. Prior to joining NYU, he was a software engineer in Evertz
Microsystems Ltd., Burlington, Canada. His research interests include security and privacy in deep neural networks.

Prachi Gupta (PhD Candidate 2018 - Present): Prachi is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University and a recipient of the Ernst Weber Fellowship from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prachi received her B.Tech (Honours) degree in Electrical Engineering with Minor in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2016. Prior to joining NYU, Prachi was a Research and Development Engineer at Synopsys India Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore from June 2016 to August 2017. Her current research interests are in the domain of Adversarial Machine Learning and Machine Learning in cyber-security settings.

Collaborators

Elza Erkip (NYU ECE)
Ramesh Karri (NYU ECE)
Michael Walfish (NYU CS)
Mahesh Tripunitara (Waterloo)
abhi shelat (Virgina)