The KU Privacy and Security (KUPS) Lab is part of the High Assurance and Secure System Center in the Institute for Information Sciences (I2S) at the University of Kansas. We study privacy and security problems in distributed systems that deal with large-scale information collection, sharing, and analysis, including computer networks, AI systems, cyber-physical systems, information and database systems, online social networks, etc.

Current Students

• Zhaohui Wang (PhD candidate, Fall 2019, w/ Prof. Bo Luo)
• Ye Wang (PhD candidate, Spring 2020)
• Pramil Paudel (PhD candidate, Fall 2020)
• Sumit Bhattarai (PhD candidate, Fall 2020)
• Liangqin Ren (PhD student, Fall 2021), w/ Prof. Bo Luo
• Sophia Jacob (undergraduate research student)
• Navya Nittala (undergraduate research student)

Alumni

• Zeyan Liu (PhD 2024), w/ Prof. Bo Luo.
• Sana Awan (PhD 2024), assistant professor, University of Wisconsin Whitewater.
• Krushi B. Patel (PhD 2024), w/ Prof. Richard Wang, research scientist, Spectral AI.
• Rui Chen (M.Sc. 2022)
• Hao Xue (PhD 2019), software engineer, Coursera.
• Lei Yang (PhD 2017), research scientist, Amazon.
• Pegah Nokhiz (M.Sc. 2017), joined the PhD program at University of Utah.
• Rohit Banerjee (M.Sc. 2016), software engineer, Cerner.
• Manogna Bheemineni (M.Sc. 2016).
• Sambhav Deep Sethia (M.Sc. 2015), software engineer, Cerner.
• Palghat Viswanath Srinivas (M.Sc. 2013).
• Rudy Christopher (Undergraduate McNair Scholar 2013)

Visiting Scholars

• Wenqiang Li, Mar. 2020 - Jan. 2021, PhD student, School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Dr. Chengliang Tian, Jan. - Dec. 2019, Assistant Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University.
• Dr. Kim-Fung Tsang, Jan. - Jun. 2016, Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong.