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Research Experience

  • Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara, CA, USA
    Sr. Staff Security Researcher May 2026 - present
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
    Graduate Research Assistant 2021 - 2026
    • within the Cyber2Slab led by Prof. Elisa Bertino
  • IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
    Collaborative Researcher 2021 - 2025
  • Cisco Research, San Jose, CA, USA
    Research Intern III May - Aug 2023
  • Aviatrix Systems, Champaign, IL, USA
    Ph.D. Intern May - Aug 2022
  • TELUS Communications, Calgary, AB, Canada
    Security Research Intern Mar - Sep 2020
  • University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
    Graduate Research Assistant 2017 - 2020
    • within Institute for Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance
      (ISPIA) led by Prof. Rei Safavi-Naini
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
    VIsiting Undergraduate Student SUMMER 2016
    • part of the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program

Education

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
    Ph.D. in Computer Science 2026
    • advised by Prof. Elisa Bertino
  • University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
    M.Sc. in Computer Science 2020
    • advised by Prof. Rei Safavi-Naini
  • Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
    BSc. in Computer Science 2017

Awards and Acknowledgements

    • Internet Society NDSS Fellowship 2025
    • Best Paper Award of IEEE CIC
    • Best Paper Award of IEEE TPS
    • Purdue University Recognition for Excellence in Research 2024
    • Best Paper Award of ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on IoT Security and Privacy 2018
    • Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship 2017
    • Wuhan University Academic Excellence Scholarship 2016
    • Wuhan University Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award

Services

  • Reviewer for
    • Journals: WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Digital Threats Research and Practice
    • Conferences: IJCNN 2025, ACSAC 2024, ICDE 2024
  • External reviewer for
    • Conferences: CCS 2025, ESORICS (2025, 2024), ICDE 2024, Globecom 2024, SACMAT (2024, 2022), CODASPY (2024, 2022), ACSAC 2023, IRI 2022.
  • Student volunteer for
    • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2018)
  • Co-chair for Conference
    • Local Arrangement Co-Chair for SecRETs2018 (Calgary, May 2018)

Organization

  • Vice President for Computer Science Graduate Society, University of Calgary 2018 - 2019

Invited talks

  • Cisco open mic talks
    Domain Adaptation for Malware Classification Using Graph
    Neural Networks: Learning Semantic and Structural Features of
    Control Flow Graphs     2023