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Tushar Nayan

About Me

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I'm Tushar Nayan

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at Florida International Univerisity

My research interest lies on the security and privacy of machine learning models, robust AI systems, and exploring software engineering for AI applications. My research topics include trusted AI, AI with trusted hardware (e.g., SGX, TDX) Additionally, I am keen on addressing challenges related to IoT systems and protecting ML models deployed on these devices.

I am actively seeking internships and research collaboration opportunities to contribute to innovative projects and deepen my expertise in these critical fields.

Area of focus: Security and Privacy of Machine Learning Models, AI Security, AI with trusted hardware, Software engineering for AI

email : tnaya002@fiu.edu

place : Miami, FL, USA

My Education

Florida International Univerisity, Miami, FL

Doctorate of Philosophy – Computer Science

Florida International Univerisity, Miami, FL, USA.

August 2024 – May 2028 | CGPA: 4.00/4.00

Florida International Univerisity, Miami, FL

Master of Science – Computer Science

Florida International Univerisity, Miami, FL, USA.

August 2022 – May 2024 | CGPA: 3.93/4.00

Activities Include: Volunteer technical events at FIU, Mentorship to undergraduate students

Bachelor of Technology – Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal University – Majhitar, Sikkim, India.

July 2018 – July 2022 | CGPA – 9.34/10.00

Activities Include: Participated in SMIT-Hackathon - 2020,2021,2022, Member at AIESEC in SMIT - 2022, 2021, Led departmental workshops, Served as Department Lab Technician 2019 - 2022, Member at THE CREW (Photography Club at SMIT)- 2018-2022

Experience

Research Assistant

Florida International University, FL, USA

May 2023 – Present

Research Student

Sikkim Manipal University, India

January 2022 – June 2022

Web Developer

Sikkim Manipal University, India

January 2020 – December 2021

Web Developer | Intern

WebTechServices Inc

May 2019 - August 2019

Publications

SecureInfer: Heterogeneous TEE-GPU Architecture for Privacy-Critical Tensors for Large Language Model Deployment

at Intelligent Computing and Systems at the Edge (ICEdge) 2025 - Tushar Nayan, Ziqi Zhang, Ruimin Sun

SoK: All You Need to Know About On-Device ML Model Extraction - The Gap Between Research and Practice

In the Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium - Tushar Nayan, Qiming Guo, Mohammed Al Duniawi, Marcus Botacin, Selcuk Uluagac, Ruimin Sun

News

[November 2025] Passed Qualifying Exam (PhD) & Advanced to Candidacy (D2)

[October 2025] Invited talk at CIERTA Seminar FIU

[September 2025] Serve as AE committee for IEEE S&P-C1, & USENIX Security 2026

[September 2025] Paper accepted at ICEdge 2025 and nominated for Best Paper

[July 2025] Serve as AE committee for ACM CCS A&B, 2025

[January 2025] I gave a talk on Securing Machine Learning models at - SRF - Sikkim Manipal Univerisity

[December 2024] Best Poster Award (1st Prize) at IoT Conference – University of Florida - View Poster Here

[August 2024] USENIX Security'24 Student Travel Grant

[April 2024] Admit offer to Ph.D. degree program - (Computer Science) at FIU

[January 2024] Nomination for UGS fellowship for Ph.D.

[July 2022] Admit offer to Master’s degree program - (Computer Science) at FIU

[December 2021,2020 & January 2020] Outstanding Undergraduate Award of Sikkim Manipal University

[June 2020] Best Photograph – BITS Dubai Calander

Projects Made

Text Extractor

Text Extractor

Text Extractor: Smart Fill - Machine Learning Framework: Designed a Machine Learning framework that uses the OCR technique to extract text from documents and autofill web application forms using powerful tools like Azure, Dot Net, RESTful API, SQL, and React