Prof. Ram Sundara Raman
Principal Investigator
Founder of RANDLab and Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research detects, analyzes and prevents large-scale threats to the security and privacy of Internet users.
Website | Email: rsundar2 at ucsc dot edu | Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Linden Chen
PhD Student
Linden is a PhD student working on strengthening security and privacy tools by identifying and mitigating their vulnerabilities, with the goal of providing everyday users with safe, stable, and private internet access.
Mohamed Moustafa Dawoud
PhD Student
Mohamed is a PhD student working at the intersection of security, privacy, AI, technology policy, and human factors. In his work, Mohamed investigates how different stakeholders form their mental models to uncover misalignments, misunderstandings, and compliance failures. He also designs and evaluates systems that leverage AI to help users, practitioners, and policymakers better navigate digital risks and make technology more transparent and usable.
Ramon Torres
PhD Student
Ramon is a first-year PhD student working on optimizing open source privacy and security tools to by identifying inefficiencies and bottlenecks. This will make these tools more efficient and secure while keeping the privacy features. He will also be working on creating open source security tools.
Pakhi Sinha
Masters Student
Pakhi is a graduate student in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, working on website fingerprinting attacks in privacy enhancing technologies.
Kevin Tai
Masters Student
Kevin (he/him) is a graduate student in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, working on the security of Industrial Control systems.
Mahyar Vahabi
Masters Student
Mahyar is a graduate student in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, working on website fingerprinting attacks in privacy enhancing technologies.
Rohit Nagubandi
SeekCommons Fellow
Masters Student Alumni
New Position → Research @ Terrace Networks
Riya Aggarwal
Masters Student Alumni
New Position → Cognizant
Likith Rahul Krishnamoorthy
Masters Student Alumni
New Position → Grainger
Nate Jarrett
Student Lead for RANDLab, Undergraduate Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Andrew Chu
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Ethan Cao
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Geoffrey Tang
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Kenneth Lai
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Harshita Sarathy
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Mukesh Saravanan
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Shubham Marathe
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Geoffrey Tang
Undergrad Researcher – Exploring Research Pathways
Rachit Verma
Undergrad Researcher
Felicity Shih
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Aaryan Ahlawat
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Carlo Aqui
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Shivani Belambe
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Peter Dobbins
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Leonardo Gallego
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Brian Huang
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
New Position → PhD Student, UC Irvine
Prassidh Pooskur
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Ryan Sangha
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
New Position → Epyc Systems
Saurav Shah
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Udbhav Sikarwar
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher — IIT Kanpur