Nov 2021 – Apr 2022 · 5 mos · Maryland, United States

• • Instructed a high school student in Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Remote

• Integrated and deployed two static code analysis scanners into the CI/CD pipeline to detect security vulnerabilities across all repositories in our codebase
• Fixed functionality and bugs in Cloudflare Worker scripts that notified developers of these vulnerabilities
• Documented scanner configuration details in FAQs and tutorials for developer use

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos · Maryland, United States

• Collaborated with 2 graduate students to study censorship architecture, culminating in a paper discussing our novel findings: the discovery of parallel HTTPS censorship systems
• Deployed Geneva, a Python program that automatically discovers novel packet-manipulation based strategies that evade censorship, along HTTPS+SNI connections
• Reverse-engineered censorship-evasion strategies to gain insight on censorship infrastructure
• Culminated in a paper that was accepted by the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI 2021)
• More information at https://geneva.cs.umd.edu.

Jul 2018 – Aug 2018 · 1 mo

• Collaborated with another intern to examine two algorithms for finding maximal independent sets, which has applications in network analysis
• Learned Nim, programmed in multithreaded trials, and discussed Turán's theorem with Professor William Gasarch