Awards
We build for outcomes. The recognition follows.
The research team behind RepoAudit's auditing methods and PromptVault's security model, and the record they have built in the venues and competitions that test it.
Xiangyu Zhang
CTO
Research & recognition highlights
- Authored/co-authored 250+ publications in top cyber security, software engineering, and AI venues including ICSE, FSE, ASE, CCS, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, NDSS, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR
- Over $16 million in research funding (personal share only), funded by DARPA, IARPA, Office of Naval Research (ONR), US AIR FORCE, NSF, Amazon, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, BAE
- ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (2006) — the highest honor for a PhD dissertation in the area of programming languages
- Supervisor of ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Awards (2017 and 2024) — the highest honor for a PhD dissertation in the area of cyber security
- NSF Career Award (2008)
- Distinguished Paper Awards in top Security, Software Engineering, AI venues such as CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, FSE, ASE, ICSE, ICML, NeurIPS
- Winner of 18 out of 24 competition rounds for IARPA/NIST TrojAI competition (2020–2024), competed against 10+ elite teams including UC Berkeley and Stanford Research Institute
- Winner of Amazon Nova Trusted AI Challenge Redteaming Track (2025), selected among 91 global teams, finalist alongside CMU, UIUC, Columbia, and others. $250,000 cash prize
Zhuo Zhang
VP AI Research
Academic awards
- ASE 2024 Distinguished Reviewer AwardACM SIGSOFT · October 2024
- ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation AwardACM SIGSAC · October 2024
- CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper AwardACM SIGSAC · October 2024
- CSAW 2021 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 FinalistsThe NYU Center for Cybersecurity · November 2021
- Emil Stefanov Memorial Partial FellowshipPurdue University · April 2021
- OOPSLA 2019 Distinguished Paper AwardACM SIGPLAN · October 2019
- Zhiyuan Honor Degree of B.Sc. in Computer ScienceShanghai Jiao Tong University · June 2018
Selected Capture-The-Flag (CTF)
- 1st place at Paradigm CTF 2023 (w/ Offside Labs)
- 1st place at DEFCON CTF 2020 (w/ A*0*E)
- 1st place at the 40th IEEE S&P Celebration Scavenger Hunt (solo)
- 4th place at DEFCON CTF 2018 (w/ A*0*E)
- 3rd place at DEFCON CTF 2017 (w/ A*0*E)
Siyuan Cheng
AI Researcher
Academic awards
- ASE 2024 Distinguished Paper AwardACM SIGSOFT · 2024
- ECCV 2022 AROW Workshop Best Paper AwardECCV Adversarial Robustness Workshop · 2022
- ICML 2026 Spotlight Paper (Top 2.2%)ICML · 2026
Competition records
- TrojAI Competition (AI security vulnerability detection), 1st Place — 14 out of 20 roundsNIST & IARPA · 2020–2024
- Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI, 1st Place in the Red-teaming TrackAmazon Science · 2025
- GenAI: Code Challenge (Pilot), 1st Place in Round 1NIST · 2025
- GenAI: Image Challenge (Discriminator), 1st Place in Round 1NIST · 2025
Hanxi Guo
AI Researcher
Academic
- Spotlight Paper (Top 2.2%)Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning · May 2026
- NeurIPS 2024 Scholar AwardNeural Information Processing Foundation · October 2024
Competition
- $14k Bug Bounty GrantedAmazon's Live Security Research Event · October 2025
- 1st Place Attack Team Winner (Team Member)Amazon Nova AI Challenge · July 2025
- NIST GenAI Text-to-Text (T2T) 2024 Top-3 FinalistNational Institute of Standards and Technology · March 2025
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