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Security Research Intern

UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

Network Security, Cryptography

• Developed a high-performance Python and SageMath cryptographic module (BLS12-381-based) enabling real-time signature verification with 99.9% accuracy and p99 latency <100 ms, validated against Cloudflare’s HTTP Message Signatures.
• Engineered secure key management by isolating manager private keys and enforcing constant-time serialization, mitigating side-channel vulnerabilities.
• Reduced attack surface by implementing cryptographic best practices in production-ready code.

Software Engineer

CreativeLabs @ UCLA

Web Development

• Built and integrated Node.js and MongoDB APIs with a React frontend to enable real-time profile updates, improving data sync speed by 20% and ensuring persistent, scalable user data storage.
• Designed and implemented dynamic UI components, including a custom video player and profile image upload, improving engagement and accessibility.
• Collaborated in an agile team of 8 developers, conducting code reviews and managing version control via GitHub.

Technical Project Manager

ACM TeachLA @ UCLA

People Operations

• Led a team of 6 to design and ship Cookie Jar, a React + TypeScript + MongoDB web app for children’s tech education, including interactive games and progress tracking.
• Oversaw project planning, feature prioritization, and merge conflict resolution, reducing development cycle time.

Technology Intern

Huntington Beach Public Library

People Operations

• Directed community projects for 40+ children ages 8-12 to educate participants on circuits, computer logic, and basic algorithms.

AWS Lambda Secure Call Assistant

GenAI Hackathon by Impetus & AWS

• Developed and deployed a serverless call assistant using AWS Lambda, Transcribe, Bedrock (Claude) to process real-time audio, transcribe speech, and generate intelligent response suggestions for customer support calls.
• Integrated a custom Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and threat detection engine to flag 100% of simulated credential leaks in red-team testing.
• Built a scalable architecture leveraging event-driven processing and semantic analysis to handle live call streams with sub-second response latency.

Adversarial Robustness Testing of CNNs with FGSM

Association of Computing Machinery

• Engineered a PyTorch adversarial ML attack pipeline using Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) to evaluate CNN robustness under targeted perturbations.
• Achieved >95% attack success rate on MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets ( ̃ 50K images), identifying model weaknesses in production-level architectures.

Bachelor's in Computer Science and Linguistics

University of California, Los Angeles

Security Engineering and Software Development

• Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Organization, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Construction, Programming Languages, Discrete Structures, Linear Algebra

Regents Scholar

Regents of the University of California

Received Regents Scholarship of $20,000. A distinguished honor granted to high-achieving incoming undergraduate students at the University of California.

Group Signatures for Privacy-Preserving HTTP Message Authentication

IEEE Xplore

Introduces a privacy-preserving authentication method for HTTP bot traffic using RFC 9421-compliant message signing and group signatures.

School Volunteer

ACM TeachLA

Taught at elementary school teaching sites in Los Angeles county.

• Worked with 20+ children in classroom.
• Kids learned Python!