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Bryan C. Ward

Students

Post-Doctoroal Scholars

  • Abenezer Taye

Ph.D. Students

  • Bryce Bjorkman
  • Cai Lemieux Mack (w/ Prof. Leach)
  • Tiancheng (Simmon) He
  • Joel Isaacson (ECE)
  • Weiheng Qiu

Undergraduate Students

  • Stanley Zheng
  • Jeremiah Webb

Past Students

  • Patrick Dobranowski (Vanderbilt B.S./M.S.). Winner – Miser Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mathematics. Thesis: “A Combinatorial Framework for Analyzing Randomization Defenses in Real Time Systems.” Currently at SpaceX.
  • Evelyn Zhang (Vanderbilt B.S./M.S.). Thesis: “Buffered Scheduling: Hiding Decision Latency with Asynchronous Scheduling“
  • Owen Rice (Vanderbilt Undergraduate). Currently at Vituity.
  • Abby Eisenklam (Vanderbilt Undergraduate) – Winner of the NSF GRFP ’24, RTSS ’25 Best Student Paper and Best Presentation, and Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems 2025 Director’s Best Paper Award. Currently a Ph.D. Student at UPenn
  • Amanda Horne (MIT Masters of Engineering). Thesis: “Optimizing Memory-Corruption Security Defenses for Real-Time Systems.” Currently at Microsoft
  • Shai Caspin (UNC undergraduate student who worked on a project I supervised). Currently a Ph.D. Student at Princeton. Winner of the NSF GRFP.
  • Claire Nord (MIT Masters of Engineering). Thesis: “Retry-Free Software Transactional Memory for Rust.” Second prize winner of the MIT EECS Charles and Jennifer Johnson Masters of Engineering Thesis Award, and the Carl E. Nielsen Jr. Family Fund Scholarship for the Top MIT EECS student working with Lincoln Laboratory. Currently at Apple.
  • Jakob Weisblat (MIT Masters of Engineering). Thesis: “Improving Security at the System-Call Boundary in a Type-Safe Operating System.” Currently at Zoom.