Welcome!
MadS&P is the computer security and privacy research group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. We are interested in security and privacy issues affecting all kinds of computer systems including machine learning, the Internet, cyber-physical systems, as well as human elements. Our projects take on both the attacker’s and defender’s perspectives.
Faculty
Graduate Students
Michelle Jensen
Tim Lu
Undergraduate Researchers
Alumni
- Eric Pauley (Ph.D., 2025) — Assistant Professor @ Virginia Tech and CEO @ Terrace Networks
- Michael Noguera (B.S., 2025) — Ph.D. @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Rishabh Khandelwal (Ph.D., 2025) — Google
- Mazharul Islam (Ph.D., 2025) — Uber
- Ashish Hooda (Ph.D., 2025) — Google DeepMind
- Owen Hines (B.S., 2025)
- Jesus Garcia (, 2025) — B.S. @ Madison Area Technical College
- Rose Ceccio (M.S., 2025)
- Yue Gao (Ph.D., 2024)
- Shimaa Ahmed (Ph.D., 2024) — Visa Research
- Ryan Sheatsley (Ph.D., Postdoc, 2024/2025)
- Paul Chung (B.S., 2024) — Ph.D. @ University of California, San Diego
- Harrison Rosenberg (Ph.D., Postdoc, 2024/2025) — ALL3D
- Mohannad Alhanahnah (Postdoc, 2024) — Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Aisha Mohamed (M.S., 2024)
- Akhil Polamarasetty (M.S., 2023) — Ph.D. @ University College London
- Jingjie Li (Ph.D., 2023) — Assistant Professor @ University of Edinburgh
- Yunang Chen (Ph.D., 2023) — Google
- Jiefeng Chen (Ph.D., 2023) — Google
- Adil Ahmed (M.S., 2023) — Figma
- Amrita Roy Chowdhury (Ph.D., 2022) — Assistant Professor @ University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Varun Chandrasekaran (Ph.D., 2022) — Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Varun Chadha (M.S., 2022) — Capital One
- Yao Yao (B.S., 2021) — Ph.D. @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Brian Tang (B.S., 2021) — Ph.D. @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- Deepak Srinath (M.S., 2021) — Sigma Computing
- Athena Sayles (M.S., 2021)
- Matthew Wallace (M.S., 2021)
- Yukun Li (B.S., 2021) — M.S. @ Carnegie Mellon University
- Tyler Gu (B.S., 2021) — Ph.D. @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Katy Dong (B.S., 2021) — M.S. @ Carnegie Mellon University
- Suleman Ahmad (M.S., 2021) — Cloudflare
- Jon Sharp (M.S., 2020) — Amazon
- Neal Pongmorrakot (B.S., 2020)
- Kieran Mulligan (B.S., 2020) — Epic Systems
