My name is Evgeny Manzhosov. I work at Amazon, where I develop methodologies to screen for silent data corruption and assess test coverage in Trainium hardware. More broadly, I am interested in system security and reliability, hardware support for security, privacy, and compilers.
My interest in reliability grew out of my Ph.D. research at Columbia University, where I worked with Professor Simha Sethumadhavan and earned my degree in May 2025. At the beginning of my Ph.D., I worked on memory safety and pointer integrity, gradually drifting toward the intersection of system security and reliability. My research explored these questions in both general-purpose and specialized computing, including machine learning and ML with homomorphic encryption. Alongside these topics, I am interested in program analysis and hardware/software co-design, particularly where they connect with questions of security and reliability.
My time at Columbia began before my Ph.D., with a master’s in Electrical Engineering. During that period, I worked on several research projects in the Lightwave Research Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Keren Bergman. I completed my M.Sc. with an Award of Excellence before joining Professor Sethumadhavan’s lab for my doctoral studies.
Before Columbia, I studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from fall 2008 to spring 2014, earning a B.Sc. in Physics and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. Like many students at the Technion, I combined my studies with work in industry. I started working part-time at Intel in 2011, then moved to Apple in 2013. In fact, I was the first student employee at Apple Israel. Later that same year, I transitioned to a full-time role while finishing my undergraduate studies. I stayed at Apple until 2016, when I joined Cisco, and a year later returned to university to begin my studies at Columbia.
The Technion is also where I picked up an interest that has stayed with me outside of work: analog photography. I started shooting film during my undergraduate studies and have been doing it ever since.
I took the photo below with my Fuji TX-1 and a 45 mm lens, using expired Kodak TMAX 400 film pushed to 1600.
