Category: Award

Adam Godel wins the Student Research Competition at SOSP’26

Congratulations to Adam Godel for winning 1st place at the Student Research Competition (undergraduate category) that took place at SOSP’26! Adam presented his research project on closing the data alignment gap in secure analytics systems. Recent systems, like ORQ (SOSP’25), CryptDough (SOSP’26) and others, have made secure collaborative analytics systems both faster and easier to […]

$1.2M NSF Award for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Analytics Testbed

PI Mayank Varia and co-PIs Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris received 3-year, $1.2M award from the NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program! The project focuses on developing an open-source software platform to enable the deployment of privacy-preserving scientific workflows across both open and commercial cloud infrastructures. To achieve this, the team is building the […]

Adam Godel wins UROP Summer award

Adam Godel is an award recipient of the Summer 2026 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Adam’s project will focus on the secure computation of edit distance, which has applications in DNA sequencing and private schema matching. Congratulations, Adam!

Talia Chen is a finalist of the SIGOPS SRC at SOSP’24

Talia Chen participated in the Student Research Competition of SOSP’24, undergraduate category, with a poster of her work, “Scaling GNN Sampling on Large-Scale Graphs with io_uring”. Talia made it to the final round, where she gave a short presentation in front of the judges and SOSP attendees. Congratulations, Talia!