College of Engineering and Computing
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Cybersecurity Program

Secure & Private Intelligent Systems Lab

Director:

Current Members:

Dylan Middendorf

Dylan Middendorf

Master Student

Research: Breaking Isolation: FPGA-Originated Deep Learning Side-Channel Attacks on CPU Applications

E-mail: middendm@miamioh.edu

Aymen Noor

Aymen Noor

Master Student

Research: Differential Privacy in Large Language models

E-mail: noora@miamioh.edu

Huy Tran

Huy Tran

Master Student

Research: XRWriter: Smart Devices as a Viable Input Modalities for Writing in Extended Reality

E-mail: tranquh@miamioh.edu

Alumni:

Noah Greenbaum

Noah Greenbaum

Master Student

Graduated 2025

Thesis: Privacy Preservation in Federated Learning

Ryan Holthouse

Ryan Holthouse

Master Student

Graduated 2025

Thesis: Analyzing the Impact of Chain Rollback on the Security of Blockchain-Based Federated Learning

Sriram Ranganathan

Sriram Ranganathan

Undergraduate Student

Graduated 2025

Research: Differential Privacy for Federated Learning; Blockchain-based Federated Learning

Jenna Sayle

Jenna Sayle

Undergraduate Student

Graduated 2025

Research: Security Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Federated Learning

Pengyu Zhou

Pengyu Zhou

Undergraduate Student

Graduated 2025

Research: A Federated Learning Approach for Robust Detection of Malicious PDF Files