current students


Sujata Sinha

Ph.D. Student

Sujata Sinha is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining VT, Sujata received her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering, where she worked on healthcare and wearable technologies.
Broadly, she is interested in security and applications of machine learning. More specifically, her interests lie at the intersection of wireless security and adversarial machine learning.


Alex Downey

M.S. Student

Alex Downey is working towards his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) with a focus in Machine Learning.
Alex was a member of the first cohort of VT's Calhoun Honors Discovery Program (CHDP), an Honors College initiative, providing a transdisciplinary, experiential, learning-based environment that connects students with industry.
Alex's research interests involve the application of machine learning towards topics of time series analysis and predictive forecasting.



former students


Asude Baykal

M.S. from Virginia Tech

Current position: Broadcom. Fort Collins, CO


Evren Tuna

Ph.D. from BAU

Current position: Ulak Communications. Ankara, Turkey


Mahmut Demirtas

M.S. from BAU

Current position: Nokia. Espoo, Finland


Kivanc Ozguven

M.S. from BAU

Current position: Turkish Airlines. Istanbul, Turkey


Bengi Aygun

M.S. from BAU

Current position: Ford-Werke GmbH. Cologne, Germany


Omer Tura

M.S. from BAU

Current position: Undersecretariat for Defense Industries. Ankara, Turkey


M. Fatih Gunes

M.S. from BAU

Current position: Turkish Airlines. Istanbul, Turkey


Mustafa Al-naqeeb

M.S. from BAU

Current position: Saray Media Production. Istanbul, Turkey