Current Students

Tianyang Zhou
PhD Student (2023 - Present)Tianyang is a Ph.D. student focusing on software security, system security and machine learning security. Currently, he is working on utilizing machine learning techniques to improve the security of software systems.
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Qilong Wu
PhD Student (2023 - Present)Qilong is a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC, advised by Prof. Varun Chandrasekaran. Qilong earned an M.S. in Computer Science at UIUC and a B.S. from Nanjing University (Kuang Yaming Honors School). Qilong also served as a research assistant at the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab. His work focuses on trustworthy machine learning, including multitask and transfer learning, as well as security.
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Ali Ebrahimpour Boroojeny
PhD Student (2024 - Present)Ali is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC. His research focuses on Security and Privacy in Machine Learning. He is also interested in applications of Machine Learning in Bioinformatics. He is working with Professor Hari Sundaram and Professor Varun Chandrasekaran.
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Fan Wu
PhD Student (2022 - Present)Fan is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC. Her research focuses on privacy in machine learning.
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Rishabh Adiga
Master's Student (2023 - Present)Rishabh is a second-year Master's student in Computer Science at UIUC and is advised by Prof. Varun Chandrasekaran. Rishabh completed his Bachelor's degree at IIT Madras in India. His work focuses on research interests focus on developing reliable, interpretable and responsible AI with a high level interest in general NLP. Rishabh is currently working on multi-modal reasoning in VLMs, emergence of in-context learning and using LLMs for privacy policy analysis.
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Tue Do
Master's Student (2024 - Present)Tue is a first-year Master's student in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at UIUC. He earned two bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from UIUC. He likes to think about randomized algorithms generally, with a focus on privacy-preserving algorithms. He is currently working on private data attribution and in-context learning.
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Taoran Li
Master's Student (2023 - Present)Taoran is a second-year Master’s student in Computer Engineering at UIUC. His work focuses on trustworthy machine learning and cryptographic protocols. Currently, Taoran's research explores machine unlearning techniques for LLMs.
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