I'm a PhD candidate in the Tufts Security & Privacy Lab, where I research human factors affecting security professionals and software developers with Dr. Daniel Votipka. I'm also interested in adversarial thinking (AT) as it pertains to cybersecurity and software development. AT is commonly defined as the ability to think like a hacker, which I believe is the creative thought process necessary for vulnerability discovery and threat modeling. I'm interested in comparing the mental models of novices to those of seasoned professionals to find better ways to teach AT. With a better AT curriculum, we can measure the effect of AT education on threat modeling performance.
I previously worked with Dr. Peter Peterson at the University of Minnesota Duluth Laboratory for Advanced Research in Systems (UMD LARS). While there, I studied adaptive lossless data compression and computer security education, and I supported Dr. Peterson's ongoing research in identifying student misconceptions in computer security (supported by NSF #1821788).
CS 11 - Introduction to Computer Science [Instructor, Summer 2024]
CS 114 - Network Security [TA, Spring 2023 and Spring 2025]
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