Corban Villa is interested in Cybersecurity, Systems and AI.

Corban attends the New York University campus in Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) to study Computer Science, with an emphasis in Cybersecurity and a minor in Math. He works as a student researcher at the NYUAD Center for Cybersecurity with Professor Christina Pöpper on privacy in large language models, and with Professor Michail Maniatakos on Industrial Control System security.

📎 Check out my CV.

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• Exposing the Guardrails: Reverse-Engineering and Jailbreaking Safety Filters in DALL·E Text-to-Image Pipelines.
  ^{To appear in the USENIX Security Symposium, 2025.}

• ICSQuartz: Scan Cycle-Aware and Vendor-Agnostic Fuzzing for Industrial Control Systems.
  ^{To appear in the NDSS Symposium, 2025.}

• Media talks Privacy: Unraveling a Decade of Privacy Discourse around the World.
  ^{In Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2024.}

• CodexLeaks: Privacy Leaks from Code Generation Language Models in GitHub Copilot.
  ^{In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.}

• SAINTCON Container Security Village.
  ^{Security Advisory and Incident Network Team Conference, 2020.}

• Bluetooth: From basics to vulnerabilities.
  ^{Security Advisory and Incident Network Team Conference, 2018.}

• Arm-Mounted Bluetooth Attack Platform.
  ^{DEF CON 25 Rootz Asylum, 2017.}

• GitHub Copilot Leaks: Conducted experiments to evaluate privacy implications of GitHub Copilot and other code generation models.
• Saintcon Container Village: Saintcon 2020 Docker Security red-team and blue-team challenges.
• NYUAD Cyberwarfare: School project analyzing VOIP services on U.S. Military and DoD subnets with Shodan.

• BLE Tools: scripts, tools, and Docker for reverse-engineering BLE devices.
• Bluetooth Detection: scripts, tools for analyzing and logging nearby Bluetooth devices.
• DEF CON 25 Presentation: Arm Mounted Weaponized Platform and Anime Viewer.
• SAINTCON 2018 Presentation: From basics to vulnerabilities.

• AlHosLetMeIn: School project leveraging the Microsoft AR Hololens to identify faces, check a database whether they are vaccinated, then display a green or red rectangle around them.
• miles-bot: School project slack-bot to identify likely face matches for faster yearbook indexing and getting additional photos of students.
• Tutorial – Facial Recognition with Python (Cosine Similarity): SheTech presentation about how the mathematics of Facial Recognition works (Cosine Similarity) and how to implement it in Python.

• The Gazelle Next Leading a team through a rewrite (in-progress) of The Gazelle to update entire stack:
  • Node 9 => Node 18
  • CDN Images
  • On-demand webp Images
  • Vanilla React => NextJS 13
  • Migrate custom backend => Directus

• Solidity CBOR: CBOR (JSON-like binary) decoding library for Solidity. Allows you to calculate proofs on self-describing data, then parse it and use it for something.
• MerkleDB: Hackathon project to bring Web2 data into Web3 using Merkle Trees for verification and compression.
• Web3-Bot: Twitter bot to watch for shoutouts and reward users who share a project on Twitter.

• Should AI Reflect Us, Or Should We Reflect AI?
• Can Academia Keep Up With ChatGPT?
• Drowning At NYUAD: Finding Space In A Ceaseless Work Culture
• Web3.0 Internet Society
• The Banning of Maus
• Beyond the Hype: The Metaverse

📚 Check out the rest of my work.