Sarah Chow Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, CA, US

Santa Clara, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

445 CA BN

Dublin, California, United States

Platoon Leader at B/319th Expeditionary Signal BN

Bell, California

Part-time position in Army Public Affairs unit as part of Army Minuteman Full-Tuition Scholarship

• Monitored and maintained computer systems and enterprise-scale networks for USC Provost Office and various other university departments
• Conducted authorized penetration testing against departments for top-tier research university, ensuring data security

Los Angeles, California, United States

Wrote and deployed scripts for: Web SSL/TLS certificate checking, identification and remediation of vulnerable Active Directory accounts, monitoring wireless networks remotely using Raspberry Pi

Santa Clara, California, United States

• Designed, implemented, verified hardware debugger for GPU HW - Low Power Team
• Authored memory encryption key storage analysis for GPU HW - Security Architecture Team

• Undergraduate researcher at USC Center for Cyber Physical Systems and the Internet of Things
• Fractal centrality

• Undergraduate researcher in Dr. Viktor Prasanna’s FPGA/Parallel Computing Lab
• Accelerating deep reinforcement-learning algorithms on FPGA
• Developed floating point matrix multiplication method resulting in 600% initiation interval speedup and 450% iteration latency speedup compared to naive implementation
• Presenter at Viterbi School of Engineering CURVE Symposium
• Center for Undergraduate Research in Viterbi Engineering (CURVE) award recipient

• Mentored and instructed 60+ students in digital logic and design
• Held office hours, facilitated labs, and proctored exams alongside a teaching team of 6

Tacoma, Washington

• Studied and applied Multi-Party Computation cryptography principles to privacy-preserving machine learning framework
• Implemented secure two-party multiplication protocol in Java
• Trained various classification and regression models using Scikit-Learn
• Studied methodology behind several model implementation algorithms, including: ID3, Naive Bayes
• Project winner of iDASH competition Track IV: Secure Collaborative Training of Machine Learning Model

Lakewood, Washington

University Place, Washington

Greater Seattle Area

• “Comparing the Microbial Content of Uterine Tissue Biopsies and Tissue Rinses”
• Characterized microbiome of the uterus using Next Generation Sequencing
• Assisted doctors and PhD students with cell culture, immunohistochemistry, and various molecular laboratory techniques
• Washington Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Oral Presentation Finalist: One of 16 projects selected to be presented out of high school applicants across Washington state
• Madigan Research Day Poster Finalist: Selected to present poster to medical personnel at hospital-wide research day

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: U.S. Army ROTC (Platoon Leader, Battalion Command Sergeant Major), W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program (Research Track).

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Varsity Tennis Captain, Marine Chemistry Research Program, National Honors Society Vice President, Chess Club.