👋 Hi! Welcome to my personal website! I am currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.

I am studying the security impact of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. In my free time I enjoy photography, cooking, cycling, yoga, various racket sports and taking care of my many houseplants. My technology-related hobbies include tinkering with old technology (both software and hardware) and repairing electronics.


I received my bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University, where I majored in computer science with a concentration in cybersecurity. I graduated with College Honors as a Distinguished Researcher and Communicator in May 2024. My undergraduate thesis is titled Tapping .IPAs: An Automated Analysis of iPhone Applications Using Apple Silicon Macs and is set to be presented at DFRWS EU 2025. I was also heavily involved with the Society of Peer Mentors and LSU Discover Research Ambassador during my time as an undergraduate.

Research Overview

Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Reverse Engineering and Systems Security.

I am beginning my research at Duke University by studying the intersection of AI and software/systems security.

I have worked on a wide variety of research projects, most of which have broadly related to computer security. At LSU I worked under a variety of computer forensics projects under Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili. I also previously under Dr. Chen Wang studying privacy and human-computer interaction.

From May 2023-July 2023, I participated in an REU at Rice University. There I performed a security analysis of the distributed network congestion control algorithm Poseidon under Dr. Eugene Ng.

News

• • [Apr 2024]

  I will be beginning my PhD as a research assistant at Duke University this fall! Thank you to everyone who helped make this dream a reality.

• • [Apr 2024]

  Presented at LSU's 2024 Discover Day

• • [Nov 2023]

  Presented I’ve Got You, Under My Skin: Biohacking Augmentation Implant Forensics at EAI ICDF2C 2023 (Best Paper Award)

• • [July 2023]

  Presented On the Application of Synthetic Media to Penetration Testing with Nathalia Soares at ACM ASIACCS WDC

• • [May 2023]

  Began my summer REU position at Rice University

• • [May 2023]
  A poster detailing my work on webcam privacy research was presented at IEEE's S&P 2023

• • [Apr 2023]
  Presented at LSU's 2023 Discover Day

• • [Jun 2022]
  Attended IEEE CVPR 2022

• • [Apr 2022]
  Presented at LSU's 2022 Discover Day (Top Scorer in the College of Engineering and Cash Prize Recipient)

• • [Apr 2022]
  Presented at the 2021 Stanford Research Conference

• • [Mar 2022]
  Attended the MobiCom '21

• • [Nov 2021]
  Presented research project to the LSU Industry Advisory Council

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