Summary
Tushar Jois is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at City College of New York and a researcher with a decade of experience focusing on practical security and privacy guarantees for everyday systems. He earned his PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins under Avi Rubin and has bridged academic and industry work—leading threat modeling, risk assessment, and penetration testing for medical devices and contributing to secure architectures for financial institutions. His research spans program analysis, data-oblivious computation on Intel SGX, and audit-log privacy, often translating findings into manuscripts and regulatory-aligned recommendations. As PI of the SpaceLab group, he mentors students while maintaining hands-on systems development, including an OpenSSL-based C API for secure medical device communications. Outside research he pursues photography and road trips, reflecting a practical curiosity that also informs his human-centered approach to security.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Oak Park High School
Johns Hopkins University
English, Spanish, Kannada