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

Minh Duong

President

Minh Duong he/him

@WhiteHoodHacker

Hi, I'm a fourth year in CS! I like web and embedded systems hacking. I keep our meetings and website running :D
Pete Stenger

President Emeritus

Pete Stenger he/him

@spicypete

Hi! I'm in my 4th / 4 years doing a BS/MCS degree. You can find me rock climbing or listening to Daft Punk. My focus is in automation, reverse-engineering, and backend systems.
Anusha Ghosh

President Emeritus

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
Akhil Bharanidhar

Admin

Akhil Bharanidhar

@akditch

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

Admin

Cameron Asher

@bigkirbs

Sophomore stats & cs major interested in jail and web dev.
Emma Hartman

Admin

Emma Hartman she/her

@lukewarmdaisies

Hi, I'm a senior studying CS! I like learning about operating systems and will talk musical theatre to anyone who will listen. Pick a lock with me if you find the time!
George Huebner

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!"
Jake Mayer

Admin

Jake Mayer

Junior in CS interested in web / embedded security and robotics.
Julius White V

Admin

Julius White V

Hello! I am a Junior in Computer Science and Economics. I am interested in personal finance and entrepreneurship!
Nikhil Date

Admin

Nikhil Date

@TENSOR

I am a sophomore in CS interested in rev, pwn, and crypto. I also play the piano.
Richard Liu

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.
Ronan Boyarski

Admin

Ronan Boyarski

Sophomore in CS + Philosophy. I like to write malware and other offensive tooling.
Sagnik Chakraborty

Admin

Sagnik Chakraborty

@quaternion2112

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

Admin

Sam Ruggerio

@Surg

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

Helper Team

Adarsh Krishnan

Helper

Adarsh Krishnan

I'm a sophomore in CS + Philosophy interested in symbolic logic, formal methods, and graph theory.
Emma Shu

Helper

Emma Shu

Hello! I'm a junior in CS + Linguistics, feel free to come share any language learning tips or tricks you know!
Henry Qiu

Helper

Henry Qiu

@CBCicada

Sophomore in Computer Engineering, interested in low level stuff and pentesting.
Jupiter Peng

Helper

Jupiter Peng

Hi, I'm a third year in CS. Rev is love, esolang is life.
Kyler Norr

Helper

Kyler Norr he/him

Social chair, Computer Science and Astrophysics, Computational Astrophysics and Software Engineering
Louis Asanaka

Helper

Louis Asanaka

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

Purple Cyber Defense Lead

Michael Khalaf

@notprincekay

MSIM + Illinois ICSSP & NSF CyberCorps. Focus: Purple Teaming & Cyber Defense. A lover of progressive rock drumming--catch me jamming to Rush!
Eddy Jiang

helper

Eddy Jiang

Hello! I'm a freshman in CS interested in web and OSINT. 1.1x developer on a good day.

Alumni

Ian Klatzco

Ex-President 2019

Ian Klatzco gamer

@ian5v

life should be respectful and fun
Ankur Sundara

Ex-Officer 2020

Ankur Sundara

@arxenix

Dillon Korman

Ex-Officer 2020

Dillon Korman

@DrDinosaur

Jesse Wang

Leech 2020

Jesse Wang

@jjwang11

Joshua Park

Ex-Helper 2020

Joshua Park

@_dingu

Security Analyst
Joseph Ravichandran

Ex-President 2021

Joseph Ravichandran

@0xjprx

microarchitectural security @ MIT
kuilin

Ex-Admin 2021

kuilin

@thekuilin

grad student @ gatech
YiFei Zhu

UIUCTF Infra 2021

YiFei Zhu

@zhuyifei1999

Playing with the Linux kernel @ Google
Chris Kauchak

Ex-Research Director 2022

Chris Kauchak

@2much4u

Faisal Khalid

Ex-Admin 2022

Faisal Khalid

@Chief

Nathan Farlow

Ex-President 2022

Nathan Farlow

@0x1337cafe

Nicholas Husin

Ex-Helper 2022

Nicholas Husin

@NicholasHusin

SWE / SRE @ Google
Thomas Quig

Ex-President 2022

Thomas Quig

@Thomas_Quig

privacy @ apple
Anakin Dey

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.
Hassam Uddin

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!
Kevin Higgs

Ex-Helper 2024

Kevin Higgs

@kmh

Security Researcher @ Trail of Bits