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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Partnered with a professor to conduct lab and office hours, assisting 28 students in developing a deeper understanding of Embedded Systems Security through both academic knowledge and industry experience

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Collaborated with a team of three to develop a cross-platform mobile application, allowing attendees of the sameevent to connect with each other
• Built a backend server in Python Django with features such as authentication, user registration and admindashboard, ensuring rapid development and scalability; Designed the relational table schema and deployed.
• Utilized Flutter to develop a mobile frontend, achieving consistent UI across IOS and Android, and a seamlessuser experience

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Developed a machine learning-based cybersecurity analysis framework that identifies security alerts and recommends mitigation or prevention solutions, utilizing insights from MITRE ATT&CK techniques and data collected.
• Implemented Python scripts to automatically scrape cybersecurity alerts in Yara, YAML, and HTML formats from authoritative public data sources, clean and preprocess the data according to business rules, and save it.
• Designed regular expression rules for each alert in the CSV files and mapped them to corresponding MITREATT&CK techniques, expanding the number of entries in the lookup table by 300%
• Enhanced the existing NLP model by integrating Attack Patterns from Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) into the input dataset, resulting in an accuracy increase from 40% to 62%

Hefei, Anhui, China

• Contributed to a smart city traffic police project in Java aimed at detecting whether cars were yielding to pedestrians by traffic rules
• Implemented Vue.js components on the frontend monitoring platform to display additional information for newly released traffic police features, enhancing reusability and organizing the application into smaller.
• Developed an API in Java Spring Boot for the new traffic rule that detects cars and pedestrians in live camera feeds using a trained OpenCV model, determining if a car violates traffic policies based on the positions.

Bachelor Of Science, Physics

Master’S Degree, Cybersecurity