People

Faculty

• Prof. David Starobinski (staro@bu.edu)
• Prof. Ari Trachtenberg (trachten@bu.edu)

Current Students

Ph.D.

	Sevval Simsek (sevvals@bu.edu) Sevval has a background in Computer Sciences and Engineering, and completed her BSc and MSc studies in Sabanci University (Turkey), where she also completed a Mathematics minor program. She completed her Master’s with a thesis focused on secure and privacy preserving identification in IoT network communications, and subsequently joined the BU Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Program in 2021. Her current research is Improving Cyber Security Operations using Knowledge Graphs, which is carried on in collaboration with Red Hat. The project explores possibilities to enhance security analysis tools’ accuracy using the vulnerability and weakness data and the trends in National Vulnerability Database (NVD) CVE history, as well as utilizing a knowledge graph representing NVD data to predict upcoming updates to the NVD.
	Kevin (Xingyu) Chen (chxy517@bu.edu | Github) Kevin received his Master’s in Computer Engineering in January 2024, subsequently joining the PhD program in September 2024. His current research focuses on data reconciliation protocols of (blockchain) network and open source library (Gensync) providing a variety of data synchronization protocols. He has contributed to the measurement and development of a novel synchronization protocol (SREP). He is one of the maintainers of Gensync and helped publish software package on various platforms including macports, homebrew and Debian.
	Tasha Adler (tyadler@bu.edu)

Master

Yishun Xiong (yishun@bu.edu)

Undergraduate

Varsha Athreya (vatreya@bu.edu Varsha is an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering with a Concentration in Machine Learning, graduating in 2026. She is working on using knowledge graphs to fix mappings in the National Vulnerability Database as well as using the New England Research Cloud for model training and deployment.

Alumni (partial list)

• Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain (https://jonathanchamberlain.phd)
• Dr. Zhenpeng Shi (Senior Research Engineer, Huawei)
• Dr. Stefan Gvozdenovic (Senior Application Software Engineer, Analog Devices)
• Dr. Novak Boškov (Research Scientist, Nokia Bell Labs)
• Dr. Johannes Becker (Customer Operations Manager, Dive CAE | https://jkbecker.net/)
• Dr. Muhammad Anas Imtiaz (Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP | https://anasimtiaz.pk/)
• Dr. Liangxiao Xin (Senior Staff Engineer, ZEKU Technology)
• Dr. Eran Simhon (Director of Data Science, Spotlight.ai)
• Dr. Wei Si (Software Engineer, Google)
• Dr. Morteza Hashemi (Assistant Professor, University of Kansas)
• Dr. Emir Kavurmacioglu (Engineering Manager, Uber)
• Dr. Moshe Laifenfeld (Engineering Manager, Apple)
• Dr. Rajesh Krishnan (AI Engineer, Bee Aura Tech Corp.)
• Dr. Saikat Ray (Software Engineer, Facebook)
• Dr. Sachin Agarwal (ML Infrastructure & Security Engineering Lead , Roboflow)
• Dr. Tao Wu (Data Science Lead, Microsoft Azure)
• Dr. Francesco De Pellegrini (Professor, Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse)
• Dr. Reuven Cohen (Professor, Bar-Ilan University)
• Dr. Weiyao Xiao (Engineering Manager,ByteDance)
• Dr. Niloofar Fazlollahi (Lead Software Engineer, Apple)
• Dr. Arda Mutlu (CTO, Chimeable)

Undergraduate Researcher Alumni

• Howell Xia (Associate Engineer, MathWorks)
• Jonah Gluck (CEO at HIJ4CK)
• Jilin Zheng 
• Anish Sinha (Software Engineer at Red Hat)
• Nathan Strahs
• Thomas Poimenidis (Computer Science undergraduate, Stanford University)
• Pranet Sharma (Software Engineer, Viasat)
• Shubham Arora, (Founder, Dhwani AI)
• Sean Brandenburg, (Software Engineer, Cape)
• John Mikulskis, (Software Engineer, Google)
• Nataša Trkulja, (Research Assistant, University of Ulm)
• Trishita Tiwari B.S. (Systems Research Engineer, Google )
• Bowen Song, M.S. (PhD Student, USC CS)
• Steven So, M.S. (Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft)
• Max Timchenko (Site Reliability Engineer)
• Sinem Kockan (kockan@bu.edu) (Dell)
• Aylin Turhan (turhan@bu.edu) (Bloomberg)
• Cankut Orakcal (orakcal@BU.EDU) (Bloomberg)
• Jiaxi Jin (jin@bu.edu) (HP Labs)
• Lokesh Ravindranathan (rlokesh@bu.edu) (Mathworks)
• Stephen Chao (schao@bu.edu) (Bloomberg)
• Meijun Wang (maggiew@bu.edu)
• Angad Singh (angad@bu.edu) (Capital IQ)
• Tunde Agboola (tmoney2k@bu.edu) (Wellington Management)
• Vikas Chauhan (Senior Software Architect, Tradestone Software)
• Andrew Hagedorn (achag@alum.bu.edu) (Capital IQ)
• Ido Hochman (IT Business Manager at D.B. Zwirn)
• Emily Hostage (Harvard Law)
• Yuqing Ke (Akamai Technologies, Inc.)
• Chris Malladi (Systems Engineer, General Dynamics)
• Jie Meng (jiemeng@bu.edu)
• Ethan Robbins (Senior Engineer, Cavium Networks)
• Geoff Rowland (rowland@bu.edu) (Microsoft Corporation)
• Matt Schoen (schoen@bu.edu) (Co-Founder, Defective Studios)
• Daniel Sumorok (dsumorok@alum.bu.edu) (BBN)
• William Stucker (wstucker@bu.edu) (Hardware Engineer, Cavium Networks)
• Joseph Varghese (josephv@bu.edu)
• Vyas Venkataraman (vyas@bu.edu) (Nvidia Inc)
• Rachanee Ungrangsi (PhD student, Shinawatra University)
• Christopher Vermilion (chrisv@bu.edu) (CTO/Co-founder at Roobiq)
• Lulu Curiel (nee Wang) (iMac Business Manager, Apple)
• Abraham Yaar (ayaar@andrew.cmu.edu) (Google)
• Sunny Ngan (nsunnyn@BU.EDU)
• Matthew Boyle (mboy@bu.edu) (DebtX)
• Idan Warsawski (idan@bu.edu) (AppCard)
• Avi Klausner (aviclaws@bu.edu) (GE Aviation)
• Andres Guedez (andresg@bu.edu) (Akamai Technologies)
• Danny Morris (cleave@bu.edu) (IBM)
• Edy Tan (edytan@bu.edu) (TWIN FOCUS CAPITAL PARTNERS)