Baleegh Ahmad
I'm a PhD candidate at NYU Tandon. I work at the Center for Cybersecurity in the ECE department. My research focuses on detecting and fixing security bugs in Hardware Design.
Before doing my PhD, I got my Bachelors at NYU Abu Dhabi in Electrical Engineering.
You can read about my work here: Research
Email: ba1283@nyu.edu
Recent Updates
[Nov '22]
Our paper "Benchmarking Large Language Models for Automated Verilog RTL Code Generation" got nominated for Best Paper at DATE 2023.
[Oct '22]
Presented our paper "Don’t CWEAT It: Toward CWE Analysis Techniques in Early Stages of Hardware Design" at ICCAD 2022.
[Aug '22]
Our paper "Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models" got accepted for IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023.
[July '22]
Team NYU won Hack@DAC 2022 for the second consecutive year.
[May '22]
Our paper "Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions" won the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022.
[Dec'21]
Team NYU won Hack@DAC 2021.