Celebrating 2025 PhD Defenses: Kaiming Cheng, Kentrell Owens, and Miranda Wei

The end of this academic year bring the (successful) completion of three Security Lab PhDs. In the last several week the following students have successfully defended their dissertations and will soon be off to do great things in the world! Ordered alphabetically:

• Kaiming Cheng defended his dissertation titled “Toward Safer Augmented Reality: Securing Input, Output, and Interaction”. Kaiming will join Meta as a Research Scientist.
• Kentrell Owens defended his dissertation titled “Technology and Power: Examining Imbalances Through Usable Security & Privacy Research”. Kentrell will move to Germany to do a postdoc with Yixin Zou at the Max Planck Institute for Security & Privacy (MPI-SP).
• Miranda Wei defended her dissertation titled “Against Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Toward Socio-Technical Security & Privacy”. Miranda will join EPFL as an assistant professor after a year as a postdoc at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).

Congratulations, all!!