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$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... More
Papers accepted at VLDB’26 and SOSP’26
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
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!
Extended ORQ paper invited to ACM TOCS
"ORQ: Scaling Complex Multiparty Computations to Large Private Datasets" was invited by ACM TOCS for extended publication through recommendation by the Chairs of SOSP 2025!
John Liagouris receives an Amazon Research Award
John Liagouris received an Amazon Research Award for his proposal "Pushing secure MPC beyond niche applications". Learn more about the program on the AmazonScience website.
John Liagouris receives the NSF CAREER award
John Liagouris has received the NSF CAREER award for his project "CAREER: A Unified Analytics Stack for Secure Computation".
Muhammad Faisal completes Dissertation Prospectus
Congratulations to Muhammad Faisal who successfully completed his Dissertation Prospectus milestone today! We look forward to your defense.
Yuanli Wang presents his work at North East AI Agents Day
Yuanli Wang gave a talk at the North East AI Agents Day. He presented his ongoing work on the Impact of Scheduling for Terminal Agent Workloads on Unified-Memory Workstations.
Two CASPLab PhD students going on summer internships
Congratulations to Lei Huang, who will join Meta, and Naima Abrar Shami, who will join IBM Research this summer!
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!