Anthony Brooks Email & Phone Number

As a first-generation student at the University of Texas at Austin, my unwavering passion for STEM has fueled my ambition to pursue a career in Electrical Engineering. From a young age, I have been driven to excel in this field. Through active volunteering and assuming leadership roles, I have developed the ability to push my boundaries, striving for optimal outcomes for both others and myself. I firmly believe that each day presents a fresh opportunity to build upon my experiences and broaden my knowledge, all with the goal of innovating technology and contributing to the creation of a better world.

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  Undergraduate R&D Cybersecurity Intern

  Sandia National Laboratories

  May 2024 - Aug 2024 - Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

  Re-implemented Single Frame-based Physical Layer Identification for Controller Area Networks (CAN), enhancing security across automotive, industrial, and agricultural sectors.Trained a machine learning model across 5+ vehicles, achieving 84-95% successful detection and mitigation of malicious ECUs in CAN buses.Enhanced performance of an intrusion detection model by ~20% through several data cleaning techniques, achieving equal error rates below 0.8%Developed algorithms to extract and process edge-based voltage features from CAN Bus messages, utilizing averaging and dimensionality reduction techniques to optimize model training and testing.Researched and tested methods to attack and defend AI/ML systems using advanced techniques of Counter-Adversarial Machine Learning