Principal Investigator
Prof. Nicolas Papernot
Nicolas is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Faculty of Law. Nicolas is also a faculty member at the Vector Institute where he holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute. In addition, Nicolas is a Co-Director of the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR. For the 2025-2027 period, he holds an International Chair at Inria.
nicolas.papernot@utoronto.ca
https://www.papernot.fr
Current Members
Past Members
- Hanna Foerster: Visiting PhD student (Summer 2025) currently PhD student at University of Cambridge
- Augustin Godinot: Visiting PhD student (Spring - Summer 2025) currently PhD student at Inria
- Carter Luck: Research Intern (Winter 2025 - Summer 2025) currently PhD student at University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Angéline Pouget: Visiting Masters student (Spring 2024 - Fall 2024) currently Research Engineer at Google
- Ashmita Bhattacharyya: Engineering Science student (Spring 2024 - Summer 2025) currently Engineering Science student at University of Toronto
- Andrew Magnuson: Engineering Science student (Winter 2024 - Fall 2024) currently Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto
- Ziwen Han: Undergraduate student (Fall 2023 - Summer 2024) currently Research Engineer at Scale AI
- Tudor Cebere: Visiting PhD student (Fall 2023 - Winter 2024) currently PhD student at INRIA
- Pascale Gourdeau: Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2023 - Fall 2025, co-advised with Shai Ben-David) currently Faculty Lecturer at McGill University
- Andy Liu: Engineering Science student (Fall 2023 - Summer 2024) currently ASICs Engineer at Qualcomm
- Berivan Isik: Visiting PhD student (Summer 2023) currently Research Scientist at Google
- Haonan Duan: PhD student (Fall 2021 - Spring 2026, co-advised with Chris Maddison) currently Research Scientist at Isomorphic Labs
- Camille Bruckmann: Engineering Science student (Fall 2022 - Summer 2023) currently Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Si Cheng (Steven) Zhong: Engineering Science student (Fall 2022 - Summer 2023) currently MS student at University of Toronto
- Franziska Boenisch: Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2022 - Summer 2023) currently Assistant Professor at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- Shimaa Ahmed: Visiting PhD student (Summer 2022) currently Staff Research Scientist at Visa Research
- Roy Rinberg: Research Intern (Summer 2022) currently PhD student at Harvard University
- Patty Liu: Engineering Science student (May 2022 - August 2023) currently PhD student at Princeton University
- Mark Thomas: Research Intern (Summer 2022) currently MS student at the University of Toronto
- Avital Shafran: Visiting PhD student (Summer 2022) currently PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Thorsten Eisenhofer: Visiting PhD student (Summer 2022) currently Assistant Professor at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- Yannis Cattan: Research Intern (Summer 2022) currently Masters student at ENS Paris-Saclay (MVA)
- Roei Schuster: Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022) currently CTO at Context AI
- Ilia Shumailov: Postdoctoral Fellow (started Fall 2021, co-advised with Kassem Fawaz) currently Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Junior Research Fellow at Oxford
- Aditi Misra: Engineering Science student (Fall 2021 - Spring 2024) currently Quantitative Researcher at Squarepoint
- Hongyu (Charlie) Chen: Engineering Science student (Fall 2021 - Summer 2022) currently Machine Learning Engineer at Cohere.ai
- Muhammad Ahmad Kaleem: Engineering Science student (Summer 2021 - Summer 2023) currently PhD student at Stanford University
- Aisha Alaagib: Research Intern (Summer 2021) currently Research Intern at MILA
- Armin Ale: Engineering Science student (Summer 2021 - Summer 2022) currently Software Engineer at Intel
- Ali Shahin Shamsabadi: Research Intern (Winter 2021 - Fall 2021) currently Privacy Researcher at Brave
- Adam Dziedzic: Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2020 - Summer 2023) currently Assistant Professor at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- Natalie Dullerud: MS student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2022, co-advised with Marzyeh Ghassemi) currently PhD Student at Stanford
- Stephan Rabanser: PhD student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2025) currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University
- Steven Xia: Undergraduate student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2021, co-advised with Shurui Zhou) currently PhD student at UIUC
- Jin Zhou: Engineering Science student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2021) currently PhD student at Cornell
- Lucy Lu: Engineering Science student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2021) currently MS student at Stanford
- Marko Huang: Engineering Science student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2021) currently MS student at University of Toronto
- Gabriel Deza: Engineering Science student (Fall 2020 - Summer 2021) currently MS student at UC Berkeley
- Tejumade Afonja: Research Intern (Summer 2020) currently PhD student at CISPA Helmholtz Center
- Lorna Licollari: Research Intern (Summer 2020) currently Engineering Science student at University of Toronto
- Pratyush Maini: Research Intern (Summer 2020) currently PhD student at CMU
- Yunxiang Zhang: Research Intern (Spring 2020) currently PhD student at Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Mingyue Yang: PhD student (Winter 2020 - Summer 2025, co-advised with David Lie) currently Malware Researcher at Trend Micro
- Saina Asani: Research Assistant (Winter 2020 - Summer 2020) currently Member of Technical Staff at Cantina Labs
- Laura Zhukas: Undergraduate Student Researcher (Fall 2019) currently BASc student at the University of Waterloo
- Christopher Choquette-Choo: Engineering Science student (Fall 2019 - Summer 2020) currently Research Scientist at OpenAI
- Baiwu Zhang: MEng student (Fall 2019 - Summer 2020) currently ML Engineer at Twitter
- Varun Chandrasekaran: Visiting PhD student (Fall 2019) currently Assistant Professor at UIUC
- Vinith Suriyakumar: MS student (Fall 2019 - Summer 2021, co-advised with M. Ghassemi and A. Goldenberg) currently PhD student at MIT
- Lucas Bourtoule: MASc student (Fall 2019 - Summer 2021) currently Security Engineer at Trail of Bits
- Adelin Travers: PhD student (Fall 2019 - Summer 2021, co-advised with David Lie) currently Manager and Security Risk Lead at Toyota-Woven