Roundtable: Life After Graduate School
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BIO
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Westley Weimer is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan. He has advised fourteen graduate students and two postdocs to post-graduate careers, from top-tier research academia (e.g., CMU, UMass Amherst, etc.) to liberal arts colleges (e.g., St. Lawrence University) to lecturer positions (e.g., George Mason University) to large-company research positions (e.g., Google, Meta, Mathworks, etc.) to small-company research positions (e.g., Apogee Research). He maintains a graduate job and interview guide for computer science: https://csguides.github.io/grad-job-guide/ .
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Adam Oest is passionate about protecting businesses from sophisticated fraud while making the broader web ecosystem safer for users. He currently leads a seller risk science team at Amazon, having previously spent 5 years at PayPal as a security research manager and engineer. He received his PhD from Arizona State University in 2020, where he researched ways to measure and improve large-scale anti-phishing systems. |
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Jonathan Lacson is currently a researcher on the Centaur team in NSA's Laboratory for Advanced Cybersecurity Research, focused on supplementing conventional binary analysis techniques to make vulnerability research easier. Jonathan has been with NSA since 2018, getting his start through the Co-Op program. After earning a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2020, he joined the Computer Science Development Program, a 3 year rotational program designed for new hires to find a technical field and focus they are passionate about. During his time in the program, Jonathan found his calling in reverse engineering and vulnerability research in operating systems and malware. In what he considers out-of-order, Jonathan is currently working to finish up a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Outside of work and school, Jonathan enjoys photography, cooking, travelling, bar trivia, Baltimore, and telling people why Baltimore is great. |
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Gaelin Shupe is a cybersecurity nerd from Colorado with a Masters in Cyber Defense from Dakota State University. Currently working at Battelle doing reverse engineering and vulnerability research pushing the boundaries of cybersecurity. Strong foundation in competitive cybersecurity, with four years competing in CCDC and two years on the U.S. Cyber Team. Enjoys working on personal projects, scanning the internet, scraping cat pictures from reddit, and building an extensive homelab. Builds and runs the CyberConquest competition at DakotaCon. Outside of tech, an avid rock climber and occasionally ventures forth into the great unknown that is the outdoors to hike. |
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