Work experience

Research assistant work at Texas Tech University — building real systems across IoT security, astronomy data processing, and HPC.

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX · Present

  • Built a monitoring and visual analytics pipeline for the REPACSS HPC cluster, integrating Slurm job state, node telemetry, and power data for operational analysis and job-outcome prediction.
  • Developed a JWST NIRCam photometry and frame-quality pipeline for the eclipsing binary ZTF J153932.16+502738.8 (PID 1666), producing eclipse-timing measurements for a Physics & Astronomy collaboration.
  • Designed visualization systems (D3.js, React) for IoT network attack behavior and multi-stage incident data.

Graduate Research Assistant

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

  • Developed passive traffic-fingerprinting methods for IoT device identification.
  • Built and evaluated detection methods for crypto ransomware behavior.
  • Designed a provenance location-based authentication scheme for cloud computing.

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