Who We Are

SIGPwny is completely student-run and would not be where it is today without the contributions of our admin team, helper team, and alumni.

Admin Team

President

Cameron Asher

@bigkirbs

Junior stats & cs major interested in jail and web dev.

President Emeritus

Minh Duong he/him

@WhiteHoodHacker

Hi, I'm a fifth year in the BS+MCS program! I like web and embedded systems hacking. I keep our meetings and website running :D

Admin

Akhil Bharanidhar

@akditch

Hi! I'm a junior in CS, talk to me about pwn :p

Admin

Bryce Kurfman he/him

@b_kurfy

Yello, I'm interested in DFIR and ICS cybersecurity. Love to be moving. CS '27

Admin

Emma Hartman she/her

@lukewarmdaisies

Hi, I'm a masters student studying CS! Pick a lock with me if you find the time!

Admin

George Huebner

@shorden

"You're a quantum physicist?" "Sure..? I'm also a Nix user! But the only thing that I do in this club is fixing people's Emacs!"

Admin

Henry Qiu

@CBCicada

Junior in Computer Engineering, doing kernel stuff and writing absolutely unhinged C++

Admin

Jake Mayer

Junior in CS interested in web / embedded security and robotics.

Admin

Julius White

Hello! I am a Senior in Computer Science and Economics. Talk to me about personal finance, entrpeneurship, and data privacy

Admin

Krishnan Shankar

@krishnans2006

Sophomore in Computer Engineering interested in embedded/operating systems security. I use NixOS, btw.

Admin

Michael Khalaf

@notprincekay

MSIM & ICSSP. Focused on networking and cyber defense at Purple. A lover of progressive rock--catch me jamming to Rush!

Admin

Nikhil Date

@TENSOR

I am a junior in CS interested in systems, especially operating systems and kernel development. I also play the piano.

Admin

Richard Liu

@richyliu

Reverse engineer and pwn enthusiast. When I'm not staring at Ghidra or GDB, I like to spend my free time rock climbing.

Admin

Ronan Boyarski

@ronanboyarski

CS + Philosophy & ICSSP. I run the offensive side of Purple Team. I'm into offensive tool development, threat emulation, and DFIR.

Admin

Sam Ruggerio he/him

@Surg

Hi! I'm a CS PhD doing theory, but you'll find me in cybersec doing neat things as well!

Admin

Swetha Karthikeyan

@sway_k

Hi! I'm a junior in computer engineering, interested in embedded and hardware security. I also enjoy playing the violin!

Helper Team

Helper

Adarsh Krishnan

I'm a junior in CS + Philosophy interested in symbolic logic, graph theory, and machine learning.

Helper

Ahmed Alkhalawi

@4hm4d

Hello! I'm a freshman in Math/CS. Interested in Crypto and anything else sufficiently Mathy.

Helper

Cygnus Qiu He/Him

@e_ritque.arcus

I do rev, forensics and some hardware :)

Helper

Emma Shu

Hello! I'm a senior in CS + Linguistics, and I'm currently abroad in Hong Kong studying at HKU!

Helper

Joseph Jiang

@j_squared

Sophomore in CS + Astronomy minor. I like pentesting and red teaming, as well as occasional software dev. Catch me at the climbing gym or at the ARC Kilter Board!

Helper

Jupiter Peng

@32121

Hi, I'm a fourth year in CS. Rev is love, esolang is life.

Helper

Marina Stoyanova she/her

@b3zgrani4na_

Freshman in CS, I <3 cybersecurity, networking, and my pwnagotchis!

Helper

Ray Liu He/Him

@Ray70607

I'm a freshman in CS + Linguistics. I got into cybersecurity because I once had an obsession with Rick rolling classmates.

Helper

Ryan Yin

First year in Computer Science doing whatever. Hit me up to play CTF, badminton, or anything else you're interested in!

Helper

Suchit Bapatla

@suchit

Hello, I am a graduate student in CS interested in Reverse Engineering, Embedded Security, and Purple Team. I am a black belt in TaeKwonDo as well!

Helper

Tyler Mercado they/them

Hi! I am a freshman in Statistics & Computer Science. I like CTF, reverse engineering, and game hacking.

Alumni

Ex-President 2019

Ian Klatzco gamer

@ian5v

life should be respectful and fun

Ex-Officer 2020

Ankur Sundara

@arxenix

Ex-Officer 2020

Dillon Korman

@DrDinosaur

Leech 2020

Jesse Wang

@jjwang11

Ex-Helper 2020

Joshua Park

@_dingu

Security Analyst

Ex-President 2021

Joseph Ravichandran

@0xjprx

microarchitectural security @ MIT

Ex-Admin 2021

kuilin

@thekuilin

Security Researcher @ Zellic

UIUCTF Infra 2021

YiFei Zhu

@zhuyifei1999

Playing with the Linux kernel @ Google

Ex-Research Director 2022

Chris Kauchak

@2much4u

Ex-Admin 2022

Faisal Khalid

@Chief

Ex-Helper 2022

Nicholas Husin

@NicholasHusin

SWE / SRE @ Google

Ex-President 2022

Nathan Farlow

@0x1337cafe

Ex-President 2022

Thomas Quig

@Thomas_Quig

privacy @ apple

Ex-Admin 2024

Anakin Dey

@spamakin

Hello! I'm a PhD student in math at OSU and my main interest in cybersecurity is crypto! No, not that crypto, the other one.

Ex-Admin 2024

Hassam Uddin he/him

@Heasummn

Hey I'm Hassam! CS '24 interested in all things cryptography, theory, math, and compilers. I am currently working at IMC Trading in Chicago!

Ex-Helper 2024

Kevin Higgs

@kmh

Security Researcher @ Trail of Bits

Ex-Helper 2024

Pomona Carrington Hoekstra

@theta

Ex-President 2025

Anusha Ghosh

@0xk4l1

I'm an MSCS student interested in exploring AI security! Outside of school (and SIGPwny), I love fiber arts and music :D

Ex-Helper 2025

Louis Asanaka

Hey! I'm a senior in CS, interested in web / game hacking and operating systems!

Ex-President 2025

Pete Stenger he/him

@spicypete

Founding Engineer at PrairieLearn.

Ex-Admin 2025

Sagnik Chakraborty

@quaternion2112

Comp Eng '25; I am interested in red teaming/malware, testing cryptosystems, and reverse engineering :)