Status
Computer Science PhD. student at the University of Waterloo since January 2024. Member of the CrySP lab under the supervision of Florian Kerschbaum.
Graduated from my Master's of Math at the University of Waterloo January 2024. Member of the CrySP lab under the supervision of Florian Kerschbaum.
Recent Publications
USENIX 2026:
Federated backdoor adaptive attack & defense (Under submission)
Fast and Private Inference of Deep Neural Networks by Co-designing Activation Functions. (Published) (Master's Work)
ICLR 2024: Leveraging Optimization for Adaptive Attacks on Image Watermarks. (Published) (Master's Work)
GECCO 2023: Gaggle: Genetic Algorithms on the GPU using PyTorch. (Published) (Master's Work)
Current Research
PhD. Thesis:
Adversarial Machine Learning
Federated Learning Security
Other Research:
World Model Backdooring
Generative Model Watermarking
Model Backdoor Attack & Defense
Adversarial Example Exploratory Research