Turhan K. Email & Phone Number

United States

Spearheading the development of an internal GPT-powered AI chatbot aimed at facilitating cybersecurity information retrieval.Proficiency in the deployment, configuration, and test support for various Army embedded tactical systems.Proficient in the engineering lifecycle and acquisition logistics for products, services, and tech- nology in the Army.

Proficiency in the UiPath software suite for developing and maintaining robotic process automation (RPA) software.Assisted with migrating active RPAs to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment.Developed and actively maintained a software component used for dispatching work items to an intricate automation pipeline, consisting of over 10 production bots.Developed and actively maintained an automation system that merges reports from the Navy SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) site and integrates prepped data for maintaining SQL databases.Made several enhancements to software libraries actively used by the Robotic Governance Team (RGT) and others.Actively demonstrated technical leadership through code reviews, training, customer support, and troubleshooting production outages.Exhibited strong communication skills by assisting customers, participating in daily stand-up meetings, and offering guidance to project managers.

Towson, Maryland, United States

Demonstrated proficiency and expertise in the field of image recognition technology, with a specific focus on the security and privacy aspects of face recognition technology, contributing significantly to the development of four scholarly research publications.Turhan Kimbrough, Pu Tian, Weixian Liao, and Wei Yu, “On Effectiveness of GAN-Based Denoising Techniques for Adversarial Face Images,” in Proc. of the 21st IEEE/ACISInternational Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), May 2023Pu Tian, Turhan Kimbrough, Weixian Liao, Erik Blasch and Wei Yu, “Transformations as Denoising: A Robust Approach to Weaken Adversarial Facial Images,” in Proc. of 16th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), October 2022Pu Tian, Weixian Liao, Turhan Kimbrough, Erik P. Blasch, and Wei Yu, “Generating Adversarial Robust Defensive CAPTCHA (GARD-CAPTCHA) via DeConvolution and UnPooling Operations in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN),” Book Chapter in Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer 2022Turhan Kimbrough, Pu Tian, Weixian Liao, Erik P. Blasch and Wei Yu, “Deep CAPTCHA Recognition Using Encapsulated Preprocessing and Heterogeneous Datasets,” in Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on the Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics of Mobile Systems and Networks (MobiSec), May 2022

Aberdeen, Maryland, United States

Assisted with a partial database migration effort, converting relational databases to non-relational databases. Assisted with upgrading production Linux and Windows server Operating Systems along with software packages reaching end-of-life. Assisted with the execution of tests dictating cybersecurity requirements for computer systems.

Towson, Maryland, United States

Worked with a small team to develop a color-coded web interface for visualizing crime data in Baltimore City, Maryland. The web interface was hosted on a web server from the university, deployed in a Docker container.

Towson, Maryland, United States

Assisted over 20 students each work week with fundamental programming principles, object-oriented programming, multi-threaded programming, and data structures/algorithms analysis. Offered design/syntax-specific help in Assembly, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python.

Lemont, Illinois, United States

Assisted with discovering potential vulnerabilities within wireless vehicular communications. Developed several simulations using frameworks such as the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO), Objective Modular Network Testbed in C++ (OMNeT++), and Vehicles In Network Simulation (VEINS). Evaluated vulnerabilities in current vehicular systems via Controller Area Network (CAN) bus hacking.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Peer tutor (Tutoring & Learning center)