About Me

I am currently a Ph.D student at the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering doing research in Cyber Security and Molecular Informatics under Dr. Yoshi Kohno and Dr. Jeff Nivala. I am also currently working at Sandia National Laboratories in Cyber Security and AI.

I completed my M.S and B.S in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology with my thesis in Man-in-the-Middle attacks on MQTT networks using Language Models to craft network packets. During my masters I was advised by the late Dr. Jennifer Leopold. May she rest in peace, she was an inspiration to us all at Missouri S&T.

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Email : hcwong [at] uw [dot] edu

Recent News

• 09/2024 I started as a Ph.D student at University of Washington - Seattle in Computer Science under Dr. Yoshi Kohno and Dr. Jeff Nivala.
• 06/2022 I started as a Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM
• 04/2022 I won 2nd place at Missouri S&T's Graduate Research Showcase Poster Contest across all graduate students at Missouri S&T ($100 cash prize)
• 12/2020 Received a teaching effectiveness score of 3.60 (highest in department) in the official CET assessment on my first ever semester of teaching.
• 08/2020 "Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on MQTT-based IoT Using BERT Based Adversarial Message Generation" was accepted accepted to KDD 2020 (3rd AIoT workshop).

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