Margie Ruffin

Margie is a second year student in the Computer Science PhD program. At Illinois, she has participated in programs like the Summer Predoctoral Program, interned at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and served as an ambassador for the department helping to recruit students during annual visit days and at NESBE. With her advisors, Gang Wang and Kirill Levchenko, she works on research focused on evaluating the mental and physical efficacy of security and privacy implementations, for which she has earned the 2022 NSF Graduate Research