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

Tyler Mercado they/them

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

Ex-President

Cameron Asher

@bigkirbs

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

Admin

Ahmed Alkhalawi

@4hm4d

Hello! I'm a freshman in Math/CS. I like doing in Crypto, Pwn, and anything sufficiently Mathy.

Admin

Bryce Kurfman he/him

@b_kurfy

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

Admin

Henry Qiu

@CBCicada

a melting pot of systems + security + ECE, currently doing MS ECE

Admin

Krishnan Shankar

@krishnans2006

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

Admin

Nikhil Date

@TENSOR

I am a senior in CS interested in systems, especially distributed systems and operating systems. I also play the piano.

Admin

Ronan Boyarski

@ronanboyarski

MSCS & ICSSP. I run the offensive side of Purple Team, where I focus on tool & exploit development.

Admin

Ryan Yin

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

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

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!"

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

Krish Kalra he/him

@trik333

Freshman CS Major interested in jails, web, and game design.

Helper

Marina Stoyanova she/her

@b3zgrani4na_

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

Helper

Pranav Srinivasan He/Him

@rasamrice

Hello there! I'm a sophomore majoring in CompE and minoring in Informatics. I like low level security and systems.

Helper

Ray Liu He/Him

@RayZLiu

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

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

Alum 2025

Akhil Bharanidhar

@akditch

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

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-Admin 2025

Emma Hartman she/her

@lukewarmdaisies

Sec Eng at Grainger. Pick a lock with me if we cross paths!

Alum 2025

Julius White

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

Ex-Helper 2025

Louis Asanaka

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

Ex-President 2025

Minh Duong he/him

@WhiteHoodHacker

Security Researcher @ Microsoft, embedded security hobbyist

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 :)

Alum 2025

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!

Ex-Helper 2026

Cygnus Qiu He/Him

@e_ritque.arcus

Hardware sec @ architecture.fail . I do rev, forensics and some hardware :)

Alum 2026

Jake Mayer

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

Alum 2026

Michael Khalaf

@notprincekay

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

Alum 2026

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.