About Us
Hello! Welcome to The Cake Lab. We are a research group from the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Our group focuses on systems, networking, and security. For example, some of our ongoing projects involve optimizing the performance and security of critical and emerging systems, including distributed systems, cloud and mobile applications, and embedded systems.
Our work is generously supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Google Cloud, and the Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST).
Faculty
Tian Guo
Associate Professor
Craig Shue
Professor
Robert Walls
Associate Professor
Program Director, Cybersecurity
Affiliated Faculty
Lorenzo De Carli
Associate Professor
Craig Wills
Professor
PhD Students
Davud Azizov
Distributed quantum computing
Zhanhong Huang
Robotic-inspired augmented reality
Namson Nguyen
Binary reverse engineering
Automne Petitjean
Dynamic 3D scene understanding
Javier Vela Tambo
Distributed quantum computing
Ashkan Ganj
Applied vision and augmented reality
Adam Beauchaine
Shuwen Liu
Graduate Students
Harsh Kamlesh Chhajed
Robotic-inspired augmented reality
Nicholas Golparvar
Kernel security
Vivek Jagadeesh
Kernel security
Harsh Shah
Robotic-inspired augmented reality
Undergraduate Students
Brayden Little
Binary reverse engineering (2026 summer REU)
Daniel Reynolds
Binary reverse engineering
Caleb Warzocha
Binary reverse engineering (2026 summer REU)
Selected Publications
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See, Record, Do: Automated Generation of UI Workflows from Tutorial Videos
Adam Beauchaine, Craig A. Shue
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), March 2026
PaperA High-Fidelity Robotic Manipulator Teleoperation Framework for Human-Centered Augmented Reality Evaluation
Harsh Chhajed, Tian Guo
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys'26)
PaperAR as an Evaluation Playground: Bridging Metrics and Visual Perception of Computer Vision Models
Ashkan Ganj, Yiqin Zhao, Tian Guo
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys'26)
Paper'We just did not have that on the embedded system': Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions.
Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Alex Eastman, Kai Kaufman, Md Armanuzzaman, Xi Tan, Katherine Jesse, Robert J Walls, and Ziming Zhao
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
PaperREVDECODE: Enhancing binary function matching with context-aware graph representations and relevance decoding.
Tongwei Ren, Ronghan Che, Guin Gilman, Lorenzo De Carli, and Robert J Walls.
34th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security '25
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