Joshna Iyengar
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Joshna Iyengar is an associate technical staff member in the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group. Her current focus is developing software and embedded systems for high-assurance cryptography and small satellite applications. Her goal is to make security more reliable and accessible — because robust, trustworthy systems are essential to protecting people and enabling critical work across all domains.
Joshna won the Best Mentor award in 2025 for Lincoln Laboratory’s Intern Idea Innovation Challenge and helped her interns win the whole competition. She is also engaged in outreach both through the Laboratory, such as teaching lectures with LLCipher, developing courses with LLeduCATE, and demonstrating soldering with LLRISE, as well as externally, through advising Hacker Fab students at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University on semiconductor fabrication.
In 2024, Iyengar received her BS and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, she interned with the Advanced Sensors and Testbeds Group at Lincoln Laboratory, working on embedded systems and data acceleration for a radar test bed, as well as radio communication for a biochemical device.