Public Work

Giving conference presentations and trainings enriches my personal research opportunities and helps a nascent community develop an understanding for the subject matter.

Teaching

I lecture at the UC Berkeley School of Information, teaching a series of courses on Applied Machine Learning (W207) as part of the Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) and Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) graduate programs. In May 2023, I was voted by the graduating Berkeley MICS class for the Distinguished Faculty Award.

Summer 2019: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Fall 2019: Data Science W207. Applied Machine Learning
Fall 2019: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Spring 2019: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Fall 2020: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Spring 2021: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Summer 2021: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Fall 2021: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Spring 2022: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Summer 2022: Cyber W207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Fall 2022: Cyber 207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Spring 2023: Cyber 207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Fall 2023: Cyber 207. Applied Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Conference Talks

Positive Hack Days (Moscow, 26-27 May 2015)
BSides LV (Las Vegas, 4-5 Aug 2015)
SecTor (Toronto, 20-21 Oct 2015)
CODE BLUE (Tokyo, 28-29 Oct 2015)
BSides NYC (New York, 16 Jan 2016)
Hack in Paris (Paris, 30 Jun 2016)
DEF CON (Las Vegas, 4–7 Aug 2016)
GrrCON (Michigan, 6-7 Oct 2016)
Hack.lu (Luxembourg, 18-20 Oct 2016)
GeekPwn (Shanghai, 24 Oct 2016)
QCon SF (San Francisco, 7-9 Nov 2016) (invited)
DeepSec IDSC Europe (Vienna, 8-11 Nov 2016)
VXCON (Hong Kong, 28 Apr 2017) (invited)
Privacy & Security Conference (Victoria BC, 8-9 Feb 2018) (invited)
Ponemon Institute RIM Renaissance (Tucson AZ, 8-9 Mar 2018) (invited)
补天白帽大会 (Shanghai, 28 Apr 2017) (invited)
VXCON (Hong Kong, 21 Apr 2017) (invited)
Line-Intertrust Security Summit (Tokyo, 17 May 2018) (invited)
DEF CON (Las Vegas, 9-12 Aug 2018)
IT-DEFENSE 2019 (Stuttgart, 6-7 Feb 2019) (invited)
RSA 2019 (San Francisco, 4-8 Mar 2019)
VXCON (Hong Kong, 27 Apr 2019) (invited)
Infosec in the City (Singapore, 18-20 Jun 2019) (invited)
Snowflake x Techcrunch: Data Startup Founders Panel: 3 Stories of Innovation to Learn From (Online, 23 Nov 2021) (invited)
Fintech DeFi Retreat 2022: DeFi Fraud Panel (San Diego, 2-3 May 2022) (invited)
Snowflake Summit Startup Roundtable Panel (Las Vegas, 15 Jun 2022) (invited)
Summer School on Security and Privacy in the Age of AI (KU Leuven, Belgium, 21 Sep 2023) (invited)

Trainings/Workshops

TROOPERS (Heidelberg 20-24 Mar 2017)
HITB SecConf (Amsterdam, 10-14 Apr 2017)
VXCON (Hong Kong, 1-2 May 2017) (invited)
Positive Hack Days (Moscow, 23-24 May 2017)
DEF CON (Las Vegas, 27-30 Jul 2017)
HITB GSEC (Singapore, 21-25 Aug 2017) (invited)
BRUCON (Belgium, 5-6 Oct 2017)
Nullcon (India, 28 Feb-1 Mar 2018) (invited)
Blackhat Asia (Singapore, 20-21 Mar 2018)
VXCON (Hong Kong, 22 Apr 2018) (invited)
DEF CON China β - AI Village (Beijing, 11-13 May 2018) (invited)
LinkedIn Security Team (Sunnyvale CA, 30 May 2018) (PRIVATE, invited)
HITB Beijing (Beijing, 22-26 Oct 2018) (invited)
DEF CON (Las Vegas, 9-12 Aug 2018)
QCon SF (San Francisco, 14-15 Nov 2019) (invited)
Div0 Global Cybersecurity Camp (GCC) (Japan, 10-14 Feb 2020) (invited)

Meetup Talks

Austin Hardware Startup (Austin, 20 Nov 2014)
NY Hardware Start-up (New York, 10 Dec 2014)
Atlanta Node.js Developers (Atlanta, 12 Feb 2015)
NBCUniversal Hackathon (Orlando, 28-29 March 2015)
Internet of Things D.C. (Washington D.C. 20 Apr 2015)
Bay Area Cyber Security Meetup (Mountain View, 10 Mar 2016) (invited)
SPC AI Speaker Series (video, writeup)(SF, 10 Aug 2017) (invited)
UC Berkeley - Modern Data Applications guest lecturer (Berkeley, 17 Nov 2022) (invited)
UC Berkeley - Modern Data Applications guest lecturer (Berkeley, 18 Jul 2023) (invited)

Review Boards

Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2023 - 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (LA + Online, 11 Nov 2022)
Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2022 - 15th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (LA + Online, 11 Nov 2022)
Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2021 - 14th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (South Korea + Online, 15 Nov 2021)
Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2020 - 13th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 27th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (Online, 13 Nov 2020)
Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2019 - 12th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (London, 15 Nov 2019)
Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2018 - 11th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (Toronto, 19 Oct 2018)
Program committee member (review board) - AISec 2017 - 10th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS) (Dallas, 3 Nov 2017)

Misc

Founder and previous co-chair of the AI Village at DEF CON
Founder and previous organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group.
- Started from 0 in May 2015, 2.5k members as of Q2 2018
- Typically physical attendance ranging from 30 to 300, online attendance (livestream, unique & transient) between 1000 to 3000
- Speakers hail from large companies like Google/Facebook/LinkedIn/Netflix, as well as startups like Eventbrite, Area1 Security, Sift Science, Graphistry, DataVisor etc.