Alejandro Cuevas

I’m a PhD student at CMU working with Prof. Nicolas Christin. I study reputation and social influence in online platforms: how to improve them and how to leverage them beyond online marketplaces. Through this work, I’ve also studied online cryptocurrency communities and how social media affects retail users’ financial decisions (e.g., investing). I have worked in a variety of topics within security: vulnerability reproduction, deep learning for binary analyses, anonymous communications, moving target defenses, usable security, and computer security from legal and organizational perspectives.

I obtained my Bachelor of Science from The Pennsylvania State University as a Schreyer Scholar and a member of The Presidential Leadership Academy. I completed my honors thesis under the supervision of Prof. Peng Liu and Prof. Dinghao Wu as a member of the Penn State Cyber Security Lab. In 2023, I was an intern at Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory, mentored by Glen Weyl and Madeleine Daepp. In 2017-18, I was a Research Assistant in the DEDIS Lab at EPFL, under the supervision of Prof. Bryan Ford and Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux. I also interned at Microsoft’s CDP Team and PwC’s Advisory branch in 2016 and 2015, respectively.

I am also the co-founder of Redoux, a fragrance brand born in NY. We have received the inaugural Glossier Grant in 2021, 2x Architectural Digest Cleverest Awards (2022, 2023), and an Essence Best in Beauty Award 2024.

I am a recipient of the Cylab Presidential Fellowship 2022-2023, and the IEEE S&P Distinguished Paper Award (2018).