Ruide Zhang

Dissertation: Hardware-Aided Privacy Protection and Cyber Defense for IoT

Co-Advised PhD with Dr. Wenjing Lou

2015-2020

First Job: Security Researcher at ByteDance, Now: Google DeepMind

Jinwen Wang

Dissertation: Real-time System Availability in Cyber-physical Systems

Joined from Tsinghua in 2019, graduated in Spring 2025

First Job: Assistant Professor @ Department of Computer Science, University of Texas - Dallas

Zhiyuan Yu

Dissertation: Cyber-Physical Security Through the Lens of AI-Enabled Systems

Joined from HUST in 2019, graduated in Spring 2025

First Job: Assistant Professor @ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University

Ao Li

Dissertation: Understanding and Mitigating Timing Issues in Autonomous Systems

Joined from Berkeley in 2021, graduated in Spring 2025

Han Liu

Dissertation: Towards Secure and Privacy-preserving Machine Learning Systems

Joined from UESTC in 2021, graduated in Spring 2025

First Job: Research Scientist at Meta

Yuhao Wu

Dissertation: System Security Foundations for AI-Enabled Systems

Joined from Sichuan University in 2021, graduated in Spring 2025

Co-Advised PhD with Dr. Umar Iqbal

Fist Job: Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks