Students

Geovani BENITA

Geovani Benita graduated with a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico (UANL) with a major in telecommunications in 2020. He received his Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2023. He is a current member of the ASSET Research Group at SUTD and PhD student, focusing on wireless security, offense, and defense. He is also a Capture The Flag (CTF) player as a hobby.

His interests revolve around the following research fields:

• Machine learning models
• Penetration testing
• Wireless security
• Cyber-physical systems and IoT
• Embedded systems and software/hardware engineering

Supervisor: Asst Prof Sudipta Chattopadhyay
Project: NSoE II (IoT)

Pengcheng WEI

Pengcheng WEI received his master’s degree in computer science from Hunan University. He is now a member of iTrust and a Ph.D. student in the ISTD Pillar at SUTD. His research interests include system security, data mining, and graph-based machine learning.

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Chen Binbin
Project: NSoE II (Energy)

Sridhar ADEPU

Sridhar’s work focuses on verification, safety, security and reliability of cyber physical systems. Prior to his PhD study, Sridhar was a Research Assistant at iTrust. He also worked as Assistant Professor at Vignan University, India. Sridhar holds a Masters degree in software engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. He has a B.Tech in computer science from the Kakatiya University, India.

Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Mathur
Project: Investigation of attacks and detection mechanisms in Cyber-Physical Systems

John Henry CASTELLANOS

John Henry is currently a PhD student SUTD. in 2015 John Henry received his MSc degree in Information Security at Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia). Before he studied Electronics Engineering at Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (Cúcuta, Colombia). He has over seven years of experience in several industries such as Automation, Telecommunications, Datacenter and Cybersecurity.

Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Martin Ochoa

HUANG Qisheng

Qisheng received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014. Currently he is pursuing his PhD degree in ISTD under the supervision of Professor Costas Courcoubetis. His research interest is much involved in electricity market, energy storage systems, smart grid and power economics.

Supervisor: Prof. Costas Courcoubetis

LIM Qin Xin

Qin Xin is a freshmore undergraduate with an interest to learn more about Cybersecurity. He is involved in the GURU CPS platform and will be helping to develop a digital twin of a water treatment plant with iTrust.

Surabhi ATHALYE

Surabhi is an Engineering Product Development Junior at SUTD. She has a background in computer simulations, algorithm designing for low-level analysis, and system modelling and control. She recently presented some of her work at the Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) hosted by NTU. She has also co-authored a research paper for another project that was submitted for the MobileHCI 2018 conference. She is currently working on the system identification and validation of the WADI testbed at iTrust.

Elaine CHEONG

Elaine is an ISTD undergraduate, specialising in Security and Communication. Being an inquisitive student who is keen in the area of Cyber Forensics, she is currently working on a research project in iTrust to widen her knowledge in this field. She aims to be part of Singapore’s Cyber Defender force one day. The project she is working on deals with using machine learning to automate the current forensics tools.

Jason CHOW

Jason is a Freshmore, who intends to pursue his undergraduate studies in ISTD. He is keen to take up computer science and tries to learn as many digital skills as possible. His current area of particular interest is in game design. He is also currently embarking on a project to develop an AR Glass for running.

Filbert CIA

Filbert is a freshmore student planning to take up ISTD. He has always been interested in improving cyber-physical security and is currently working with iTrust in developing the digital twin of SWaT.

Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Mathur

Ryan GEN

Ryan is an undergraduate student in SUTD, intending to join the ISTD pillar. His interests include game design and computer simulations. At iTrust, he is currently working on a project to develop a Virtual Reality Game to simulate Cyber-Physical Attacks/Security on a Water Treatment System.

HIANG Cheong Kai

Cheong Kai is a Computer Engineering student in EPD Pillar in SUTD. He has a strong interest in technology and consequently also in security, given the increasingly interconnected world.

 Jesandry

Jesandry is currently an ISTD Junior in SUTD.  At iTrust, he assists in fuzzing IoT devices at the project on Research & Security Innovation Lab for IoT. He is keen on learning more about security through research projects in iTrust.

KANG Tae Woong

Tae Woong is a sophomore year undergraduate from ISTD pillar. His interests include deep learning and cyber security. Last summer, he did his internship at NTUC Link as a software engineer and gained experiences in app developments and databases. At iTrust, he is currently working on Advanced-Intelligent Anomaly Detection System under Dr. Vinay.

Avery KHOO

Avery is an undergraduate in ISTD, focusing on Artificial Intelligence as well as Networks and Security. He has interests in general game playing, optimisation, as well as physics and stamp collecting. He is also engaged in a project to Design and build emulator for SWAT, damaging the system but not the actual infrastructure.

LAU Yu Hui

Yu Hui is a freshmore student who is planning to go to ISTD. She has always been interested in the cyberworld and tries to amass as many skills as possible. She is currently working with iTrust in the creation of an attack logger and integrating it with anomaly detector aggregator PlantViz.

Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Mathur

Dily LEE

Dily is an ISTD Undergraduate with an interest in cyber security research, and improving his skills when faced with a difficult challenges. She is currently assisting in the secured data acquisition and visualisation for CPS.

Nigel LEONG

Nigel is an ISTD Junior studying in the Security and Communication track. After a short stint as an intern at DSO National Laboratories, he wanted to learn more about cyber security. During his internship, he took part in a CTF competition organised by Facebook and HITB. This further solidified his interest in cyber-security. Nigel currently assists in research on generating new exploits for IoT devices using machine learning.

Jonas LIM

Jonas is an energetic and jovial person who loves to make new friends. He was the ex-Captain of the Hwa Chong Wushu team and has an interest in coding as he believes that it is an essential skill everyone sould learn. He takes initative in his learning and never fails to quench his thirst for knowledge.

Supervisor: Dr. Nandha Kandasamy

LIN Yijuan

Yijuan is a passionate and proactive ISTD undergraduate with various experiences in Android and iOS development and strong technical knowledge of programming and machine learning.

Dennis Jordan MADHAVAN

Dennis is currently an EPD sophomore who is interested in the applications of IoT devices and network security. At iTrust, he is currently working at the Research & Security Innovation Lab for IoT to help improve the IoT Scanner and IoT Honeypot dataset.

Supervisor: Dr. Yan Lin AUNG

Monica NATALIA

Monica is an ISTD Senior majoring in cybersecurity. Her past experiences include internship at a a cybersecurity management consultancy firm and at a financial technology firm handling the cloud infrastructure. She is passionate about the ever-changing technology hype and how she can apply new technologies to improve current approaches towards cybersecurity. She is working on a project to develop Virtual Reality Game for the Cyber Physical Systems at SWaT testbed.

ONG Xiang Qian

Xiang Qian is an EPD undergraduate passionate in gamification of technology. He is interested in VR technology and cybersecurity. At iTrust, he is working on the visualization of cyberspace and attacks in 3D space.

Josiah SEAM

Joshia is an Information System Technology and Design student with keen interest in emerging technologies and computer science. Experienced with smart contracts on Ethereum, he contributes to blockchain projects pioneered in the university. Other research interest is on quantum information and computation with the focus on generalising classical machine learning algorithms to quantum algorithms.

TAN Ching Yi

Ching Yi is an Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) student from the graduating batch of 2015. She majors in the Security and Communications track. Her interests lie in ethical hacking and software engineering.

TAN Li Yuan

Li Yuan is an undergraduate student in ISTD working on the PlantAR project, and he is currently developing AR applications to visualize the SWaT.

Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Mathur / Shrivastava Siddhant

Nicholas TAY

Nicholas is an undergraduate in the ISTD pillar. He is interested in Cyber Security, Deep learning and Ethical Hacking in particular.  He seeks to learn to couple deep learning techniques with hacking in the future to provide autonomous cyber security measures. He currently interns at the Research and Security Innovation Lab for IoT at iTrust experimenting with IoT devices and data analysis to correlate the network traffic data collected to the physical actions of the IoT devices.

Adhi Narayan THARUN

Tharun is a sophomore student in the ISTD pillar. He is very interested in the field of AI and cybersecurity. He is currently working on a project to create a desktop size Secure Water Treatment (SWaT) Testbed version for individuals to conduct experiments, cyber exercises and trainings.

Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Mathur / Mr. Ivan Lee

Mike UMALI

Mike is currently a Freshmore student intending to take up Computer Science and Design as his Pillar. With a keen interest in exploring the computing and the tech industry, he has accumulated experience as a software engineering intern at Home Team Science and Technology Agency(HTX) and now, as a cyber security intern at iTrust. He is currently working on a project to build an integrated platform to teach OT security with a digital twin of the SWaT testbed at iTrust.

Haretha WINMALAR

Haretha is currently doing her Masters in Communication Systems at Sastra University. At iTrust she is working on a project to create a machine learning model to predict chemical properties of water in the SWaT Testbed. Her area of interests includes data analytics and machine learning. She claimed that she is an intuitive data junkie with high ‘figure it out’ quotient.

Supervisor: Prof. Aditya Mathur

WONG Tin Kit

Tin Kit is currently an ISTD junior and am interested in all things cybersecurity. Currently he is pleased to be assisting in creation intrusion detection in iTrust’s EPIC Lab. His previous attachment at the lab was aimed to create a local network detection system to raise alerts in the event of an attack.

Supervisor: Dr. Nandha Kandasamy

YONG Ching Yan

Ching Yan is an ISTD Junior majoring in the Security and Communication Track at SUTD. She is keen to explore new fields, and her areas of interests include cybersecurity and UI/UX development. She was working in a project in “Advancing Security of Public Infrastructure using Resilience and Economics”.

ZHU Bo

Zhu Bo is an ISTD senior with a passion for science and technology. He is pursuing an interest in network defense and distributed computing. He is currently developing a network simulator for EPIC using OMNeT++.

Supervisor: Dr. Nandha Kandasamy

Riley Hale AERIA

Riley is currently a 3rd year student from Singapore Polytechnic having his internship at iTrust. He was intrigued by the growing popularity of IT and realized it’s profound impact it had on other people’s lives. Thus, sparking a new path when he chose to take a Diploma in Information Technology. He is looking forward to acquiring a new set of skills here while being exposed to a wider array of projects such as Multi layer data acquisition for Cyber Physical Systems.

Saket CHANDRA

Saket completed his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. He has been working in development of physical layer security protocols and techniques. He joined NDS group as visiting researcher in 2018 where he worked on device to device communication security and authentication.

Clive GOH

Clive is a student from Nanyang Polytechnic having his university immersion in SUTD. He is currently pursuing the Diploma in Information technology and his interest are programming and web development.

Nur Ramadhan Bin JUMALI

Ramadhan is currently a Nanyang Polytechnic student studying Diploma in Information Technology. He had started his interest for computers ever since he was as young as five years old when his father bought a personal computer for him to play with. He chose to study in the broader Information Technology course so that he can learn as many IT skills as possible.

James LEE

James is a 3rd year student in Nanyang Polytechnic, studying a Diploma in Information Technology. His interests include anything technology related, especially new innovations, gadgets, mobiles and software development.

Koyena PAL

Koyena is an IB Year 2 student from Global Indian International School, Singapore. She has interests in Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Security and Data Science. In iTrust, she worked in project SWaT and was supervised by Dr. Jonathan Goh and Prof. Aditya P. Mathur. She enjoys challenging tasks as they help her learn and improve her skills. In her leisure time, Koyena likes to play tennis and piano.

Aaron SEAH

Aaron is a fresh graduate from Anderson Junior College. Interested in IT, he aims to learn as much with an open mind before enlisting for National Service.

During his three months stint with iTrust, Aaron learnt Python and programmed on his own ransomware without any prior knowledge in programming.

TAN Kwok How

Kwok How is currently a student in Nanyang polytechnic pursuing the diploma in Information Security. He has a strong interest in IT , especially in the areas concerning security.

Ericson Thiang

Ericson is an intern admitted into the Undergraduate (Bachelor in Business Administration) course at Nanyang Technological University. He is interested in acquiring a new set of programming language and cyber-security knowledge. Through the WADI testbed, he will be learning the ways that organisations can protect their cyber-physical assets from cyber attacks as well as detect these intrusions.