Hi! My name is Joel and I’m a Computer Science Student at the University of Southern California

What I’ve Been Working On Recently

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Featured: 20 in their 20s LA Business Journal
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1st: USC Demo Day + 2k Prize Money
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Youngest Presenting on Stage at CES 2020
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1st: Most Innovative Startup Stevens Center for Innovation + 10k Prize Money
1st Place: National Security Innovation Network H4D Starts
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1st: New Venture Seed Competition + 30k in Prize Money
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Mentoring @ Engineering Diversity Panel
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Lessons Learned Presenting to General Patreus
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Mentoring @ AthenaHacks All Girls Hackathon
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2nd Place: Hack IOT
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Marshall International Case Competition Challenger
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SCheduler Part 2
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Mentoring @ Hour of Code
2nd Place: Boeing Design Competition
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SCheduler Part 1: Web Scraper
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3rd Place: UCLA IdeaHacks
Wall-E By Blockchain

What I’ve Been Reading Recently

Part of being up to date on technology means reading the dense boring research papers that most people usually skip. For the Fall Semester of 2018, I'm making it a goal to post about 2 research papers a week.

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Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
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The Matter of Heartbleed
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Foreshadow: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom
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Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
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EnclaveDB: A Secure Database using SGX
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Iron: Functional Encryption using Intel SGX
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Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts
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Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile
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Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces
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Rethinking Access Control and Authentication for the Home Internet of Things (IoT)
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BlackIoT: IoT Botnet of High Wattage Devices Can Disrupt the Power Grid
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IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a Zigbee Chain Reaction
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SoK: Exploiting Network Printers
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Cloudy with a Chance of Breach: Forecasting Cyber Security Incidents
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RiskTeller: Predicting the Risk of Cyber Incidents
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Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity
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SoK: Secure Messaging
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The Best and Worst of YubiKey Usability
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The Rewards and Costs of Stronger Passwords in a University
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The Quest to Replace Passwords
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Reading: On the Economics of Offline Password Cracking
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 What I’ve Been Enjoying Recently

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Backpacking 300+ Miles on the Camino de Santiago
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Spring Break 2019: Yosemite
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Preparing for the Camino de Santiago
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First Major Bike Crash
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Foodie Adventures: Ice Cream @ Salt & Straw
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Surprise Birthday Party for Cami!
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Brunch w/ my Electrical Engineering Friends
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First Day of School Bike Ride

For the summer of 2019 I worked as a Cognitive Applications Technical Intern at IBM in San Francisco

What I’ve Been Doing at IBM

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Dog Vision: Putting Dogs and Doing Good Together @ IBM
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Hacking @ IBM Intern Hackathon - Making the Internet Accessible
Volunteering @ GLIDE SF Homeless Shelter
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Exploring the Watson Experience
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Exploring @ IBM Silicon Valley Lab and Almaden Research Lab
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Mentoring @ Angel Hacks Silicon Valley
Celebrating Yiwen's 21st Birthday
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Hosting @ IBM BlockChain Developer Conference
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Elevator Talk with SVP of Cognitive Applications: Bob Lord
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Scouting out @ Amazon Go Store