Sandra Siby

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Research Areas: Cybersecurity; privacy


Sandra Siby is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at NYUAD. She obtained her PhD (Computer Science) from EPFL, her MS (Electrical Engineering) from ETH Zurich, and her BEng (Electrical Engineering) from the National University of Singapore.

Sandra's research interests lie in the fields of security and privacy. Her research goal is to provide individuals with better control over their privacy and protection from digital threats. She wants to work towards a future where digital services are inherently designed with user privacy and security at the forefront. Her current areas of focus are security and privacy mechanisms for the web/IoT/other emerging technologies, and deployment of trusted and private machine learning on edge devices.  

Prior to NYUAD, Sandra was a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London. Sandra also spent a few years as a research engineer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and as a technology analyst at J.P. Morgan.

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