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

July 21st, 2026in Award, Funding, News

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... More

Papers accepted at VLDB’26 and SOSP’26

July 6th, 2026in News, Publication

The paper “CryptDough: A unified analytics engine for secure multiparty computation” by Muhammad Faisal, Alessandra Lanz, Sam Buxbaum, Adam Godel, Vasiliki Kalavri, Mayank Varia, and John Liagouris will appear at SOSP’26. The paper “ConRAD: Conformal Risk-Aware Neural Databases” by Sonia Horchidan, Fabian Zeiher, Xiangyu Shi, Vasiliki Kalavri, Henrik Boström, More

New research award from i-Scale

June 1st, 2026in Funding, News, Research

We have received an i-Scale award for the project Streaming GNN Inference for Real-time Anomaly Detection on Microservice Graphs. The project will explore leveraging Graph Neural Networks to enhance security monitoring for cloud-native microservice environments. Many thanks to the i-Scale Industry Advisory Board!

Adam Godel wins UROP Summer award

April 3rd, 2026in Award, News

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!