I am a motivated first-year Ph.D. student at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. I started my Ph.D. program in Fall 2024. I am very passionate about cybersecurity, with penetration testing being one of my favorite fields. For that reason, you will find me playing a lot on Hack the Box.

Research

I am working as a Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Afsah Anwar at UNM. As an RA, my main research focus is mobile security in Virtual Private Networks (VPN). In this research, I focus on identifying security concerns within VPN applications. Moreover, I am actively engaged with the cybersecurity community at UNM, where I lead a cybersecurity group that actively participates in CTF competitions.

Updates

• August 2024: Attended USENIX Security 24 conference
• August 2024: Started my Ph.D. program in Computer Science at UNM
• December 2023: Obtained 1st place in the Tracer Fire workshop held during the ACSAC conference in Austin, Texas.
• December 2023: Won a conferenship award to attend the ACSAC Conference 2023 held in Austin, Texas.
• August 2023: Joined the BeyondDefense Lab directed by Dr. Afsah Anwar.
• January 2023: Started studying a Master of Science in Computer Science at The University of New Mexico.
• July 2022: Joined the information security team at the National Bank for an internship.
• January 2022: Started a one-semester exchange program at The University of New Mexico.