Work Experience

Work Experience

Symantec Research Labs
Core Research -- Intern
May - August 2011
  • Researched privacy in social networks under guidance of Dr. Susanta Nanda.

Institut Eurecom
Research Intern
May - August 2010
  • Researched social network attacks.
  • Paper published to DIMVA'2011.

Amazon.com Inc.
Software Development Engineering Intern
May - August 2009
  • Built a quality of service (QoS) proxy to prioritize requests and protect internal services.
  • Prototyped a machine learning module to automatically detect commonalities of misbehaving requests and deny them accordingly.

Motorola Labs
Applications Research Engineering Intern
May - August 2007
  • Prototyped a client-server social television application as part of a four-person team.
  • Co-authored patents[1] relating to the prototype and add-ons.
  • Received a Bravo Award in recognition of above and beyond performance in preparation and delivery of a product demonstration to a Motorola client.

IBM Canada Ltd.
Information Technology Specialist
January 2004 -
September 2006
  • Redesigned and supervised implementation of an automated vulnerability scanning solution for the Toronto Lab.
  • Researched and developed tools to detect network security weaknesses on computers remotely.
  • Developed proof of concepts as part of a large heterogeneous team building a global solution for IT System Security and Compliance.


Patents

  • Symantec Research Labs -- Patents under preperation - September 2011
  • Motorola Labs -- Method and Apparatus Regarding Receipt of Audio-Visual Content Information and Use of Such Information to Automatically Infer a Relative Popularity of That Content - March 2008
  • Motorola Labs -- Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Automatically Forming an Aggregation of Multiple Different Renderable Content Items - December 2007
Last updated on Nov. 2011