Chinenye Okafor
I am a Ph.D. student at Purdue University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department in the Trustworthy Software Ecosystems Lab, where I work on securing software supply chains under the guidance of Dr. Santiago Torres-Arias
Service
- Program Committe, ACM Workshop on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses 2025 (SCORED’25)
- Mentoring-Meet Coordinator, IEEE Region 4 Young Professionals (2025 - present)
- Treasurer, Engineering Academic Career Club, College of Engineering, Purdue University (2025 - present).
- Program Committe, Linux Foundation SigstoreCon 2024: Supply Chain Day
- Judge, Purdue 2024 SURF Symposium posters
- External Reviewer, IEEE S&P’24
- Judge, Purdue 2023 Fall Undergraduate Research Expo
News
- Dec 2025:
- I’m a finalist for the 2026 NCWIT AiC Collegiate Award!
- Our paper, “Trustworthy and Confidential SBOM Exchange” has been accepted to USENIX Security 2026! Preprint here
- June 2025: I’ll be serving on ACM SCORED 2025 PC!
- May 2025: Excited to join Confidential Consortium Framework team at Microsoft Azure Research for a research internship!
- Jan 2025: Our paper, “An Industry Interview Study of Software Signing for Supply Chain Security”, was accepted to USENIX Security 2025!
Nov 2024: Presented Trends and Ecosystem Dynamics in Sigstore at SigstoreCon ’24!
- Sept 2024: Awarded the Dan Kohn Scholarship for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024. Thanks, CNCF!
- Aug 2024:
- I’ll be serving on SigstoreCon 2024 PC!
- Awarded the Real World Crypto 2024 Travel Grant. Thanks, RWC & sponsors!
- Sept 2023: Awarded the Dan Kohn Scholarship for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023. Thanks, CNCF!
- Feb 2023: Accepted into the 2023A class of Google’s CS Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP)!
- Sept 2022: Our paper, “SoK: Analysis of Software Supply Chain Security by Establishing Secure Design Properties”, was accepted to SCORED 2022!