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China

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Identify and address 1 major security issue (reverse shell root access) and over 3 vulnerabilities in Kubernetes-based Testbed Platform, coordinated with the SPHERE Dev Ops, and mitigated potential risks of unauthorized access and system compromise • Enhanced scalable data collection and analysis pipeline for Kubernetes based testbed, improving process efficiency by 15% • Co-develop 5 testbed sensors with DISCERN researchers, incorporating InfluxDB and PostgreSQL, monitor testbed operation, providing 2 new facets of metrics to monitor malicious activities, improving system security and reliability by 35% • Establish a knowledge graph for the SPHERE testbed, enabling threat and structure visualization, boosting research efficiency by 10% and cut data retrieval time by 40% • Lower attack surface by more than 15%, through comprehensive analysis and producing a detailed security report addressing identified vulnerabilities, simulated attacks, and patching suggestions

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Responsible for two projectsFor the project "WebRTC Collection and Analysis Suite Based on NetUnicorn"Designed and constructed a state-of-the-art Google Account automated login solution using Python and Selenium to bypass bot detection to auto-join online conferencesOptimized deployment by crafting Dockerfile, saving more than 60% of time and effort compared to manual setup, and oversaw headless ARM64 OS Raspberry Pi data collections, accumulating a total of 7 TB of data from 30 machines simultaneouslyEnhanced the WebRTC data collection pipeline into NetUnicorn, an data collection platform built for distributed computing networks, improving customizability, scalability and efficiencyFor the project "QoE Estimation for WebRTC Video Conferencing Applications"Programmed an automation software based on Python and Selenium, end-to-end initiation, participation, presentation, and termination of video conferencing sessions, incorporating ffmpeg and v4l2loopback kernel moduleIntegrated and deployed a WebRTC QoS and QoE data collection pipeline to UCSB's PINOT, allowing simultaneous curation of dataset on more than 10 programmable end-hostsResearched 1,000+ pages of WebRTC protocols, retransmissions, and multiplexing documentations, drawing connections from RFC documentations to data collected, assisted with tools including NumPy, pandas, SQLite, and MatplotlibCurated more than 50 GB of data for analysis and helped formulate a research paper

China

Provided critical tech support during the startup phase of PVPFish, a chatting/streaming web app for gamers.Performed black box testing, spotting critical login errors, and discovered session cookie related errors.Found QoE issues, such as the scrolling text banner of random users’ achievements being too fast to read.

Master'S Degree, Computer Networks

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Asian-American Studies, 3.95

Education record

Activities and Societies: Started and participated in several invention projects in the invention club and forwarded our inventions.