Chinenye Okafor

Chinenye Okafor

Ph.D. student @ Purdue ECE

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

  • Judge, Purdue 2024 SURF Symposium posters
  • External Reviewer, IEEE S&P’24
  • Judge, Purdue 2023 Fall Undergraduate Research Expo

News

  • May 2025: Excited to join Confidential Consortium Framework team at Microsoft Azure Research for a research internship!
  • Jan 2025: A paper I collaborated on, “An Industry Interview Study of Software Signing for Supply Chain Security”, was accepted to USENIX Security 2025! PDF

  • Nov 2024: Presented Trends and Ecosystem Dynamics in Sigstore at SigstoreCon ’24! YouTube

  • Sept 2024: Awarded the Dan Kohn Scholarship for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024. Thanks, CNCF!
  • Aug 2024: 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! PDF