Security Lab Milestone Exams 🎉

Congratulations to Grace Brigham, Rachel Hong, and Yael Eiger for passing their milestone exams this quarter!

• Grace passed her Qualifying Exam, completing the first of three major milestones on the path to a PhD! She presented her work “Examining Risks through a Characterization of the AI Companion Application Ecosystem” to the public and committee members Lucy Qin and Yoshi Kohno.
• Rachel and Yael passed their General Exams (aka dissertation proposal), the last official milestone in the Allen School PhD process before the final defense.
  • Rachel presented her work “Al entanglement: Exploring legal and societal implications of insidious model dependencies in Al development supply chains” to the public and committee members Emily Bender, Jevan Hutson, Jamie Morgenstern, and Yoshi Kohno.
  • Yael presented her work “Technology Before, During, and After Incarceration” to the public and committee members Katherine Beckett, Dan Berger, Jevan Hutson, Yoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.