Roopa Vishwanathan is an Assistant Professor in the CS Dept. at NMSU. Her research interests are cryptography, cryptographic protocol design, payment channel networks, and layer-2 blockchain protocols.

Kartick Kolachala is a 5th- year Ph.D. student. His research interests are applied cryptography, layer-2 protocols, blockchain-based services, and complexity analysis

Mohammed Ababneh received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from AL al-bayt University and Yarmouk University, respectively. He is presently pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at New Mexico State University. His areas of focus in research include layer-2 blockchain protocols, payment channel networks, and cryptographic protocol design.

Matheen Shaik is a PhD student in the CS department at NMSU. His research interests are cryptography, payment channel networks and cybersecurity in smart grids.

Graduated in August 2019

Graduated in May 2020