I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Nitesh Saxena in the SPIES Lab. I started my Ph.D. in Fall 2023.

My research focuses on the security of large language model (LLM) agents in high-stakes domains, with an emphasis on autonomous financial trading systems. I work on targeted attacks — prompt injection, jailbreak, and prompt leaking — against domain-specific LLM agents, and on defenses that hold up under adversarial pressure. Recent work includes a systematization of security failures in academic financial LLM trading schemes, and information-injection attacks on networks of trading agents.

Before Texas A&M, I earned my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2023), where I worked in CyLab on TypeScript taint analysis and vulnerability discovery across the npm ecosystem. I completed my B.A. in Computer Science with a Minor in Statistics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2021).

Recent News

• Jul 2026 — Paper under review: SoK: Trading Agents or Market Crashers?
• Jun 2026 — Started supervising Landry Taylor (BBA) on an undergraduate research project at Texas A&M.
• Mar 2026 — Demystifying Progressive Web Application Permission Systems accepted to DSN 2026.
• Nov 2025 — Awarded the OpenAI Researcher Access Program grant.
• Aug 2025 — External reviewer for USENIX Security 2025 and ACM CCS 2025.
• Apr 2025 — Cutting through the Confusion: A Measurement Study of Homograph Domains in ENS presented at WWW 2025. Also on the WWW 2025 Program Committee.
• Jul 2024 — Finished a summer as LLM Security Research Intern at Inspur (Jinan, China).
• Aug 2023 — Started my Ph.D. at Texas A&M under Prof. Nitesh Saxena.
• May 2023 — Completed M.S. in ECE at Carnegie Mellon University.