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
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
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
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!
Helper Team
Helper
Adarsh Krishnan
I'm a junior in CS + Philosophy interested in symbolic logic, graph theory, and machine learning.
Helper
Bryce Kurfman he/him
@b_kurfy
Yello, I'm interested in DFIR and ICS cybersecurity. Love to be moving. CS '27
Helper
Cygnus Qiu He/Him
@e_ritque.arcus
I do rev, forensics and some hardware :)
Helper
Emma Shu
Hello! I'm a junior in CS + Linguistics, feel free to come share any language learning tips or tricks you know!
Helper
Henry Qiu
@CBCicada
Junior in Computer Engineering, doing kernel stuff and writing absolutely unhinged C++
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
Hi, I'm a third year in CS. Rev is love, esolang is life.
Helper
Krishnan Shankar
@krishnans2006
Sophomore in Computer Engineering interested in embedded/operating systems security. I use NixOS, btw.
Helper
Michael Khalaf
@notprincekay
Networking, Purple Teaming, & Cyber Defense. A lover of progressive rock--catch me jamming to Rush!
Helper
Ryan Yin
First year in Computer Science doing whatever. Hit me up to play CTF, play 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
Swetha Karthikeyan
@sway_k
Hi! I'm a rising junior in computer engineering, interested in embedded and hardware security. I also enjoy playing the violin!
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-President 2022
Nathan Farlow
@0x1337cafe
Ex-Helper 2022
Nicholas Husin
@NicholasHusin
SWE / SRE @ Google
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 :)