Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
🐅 Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) 2020 - 2024
Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity with an Immersion in Criminal Justice
- Graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honors (3.66/4.00)
- Dean’s List: Fall ‘20, Fall ‘21, Spring ‘23, Fall ‘23, Spring ‘24
🌳 Forest Hills High School 2016 - 2020
Carl Sagan STEM Program
- Ranked 66 out of 832 students in my graduating class
🏫 New York University (NYU) 2018
School of Professional Studies
- HIGH1-CE9074001 / Computer Information Systems: Cyber Defense
- HIGH1-CE9108001 / Advanced Computer Science Concepts with JavaScript
WORK EXPERIENCE
🧬 Incident Response Analyst @ Pfizer 2024 - Present
I am currently an Incident Response Analyst at Pfizer where I actively respond to external cybersecurity threats targeting Pfizer’s environment.
🐅 Digital Forensics Teaching Assistant @ RIT 2023 - 2024
At RIT, I was a Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate and graduate computer forensics classes (CSEC 464 / CSEC 730) where I assisted with and graded DFIR Labs, exercises and exams.
Skills: FTK Imager, Autopsy, Volatility, LiME, SIFT Workstation, Communication, Teaching
🌳 Professional Services Consultant (Extended Expertise) Intern @ Palo Alto Networks 2022
My intern project consisted of collaborating with my team to create a tool that automates the process of generating “As-Built” documentation for customers. We reduced the amount of time needed to generate documentation to less than 2 minutes per document. I was specifically responsible for designing the Docker implementation for services used to run a multi-service platform.
Skills: Docker, Jinja, Automation, Python, Project Management, Leadership, Networking
👩🏫 GenCyber Summer Camp Instructor @ RIT 2021
For this internship, I developed cybersecurity curriculum for highschool students. My curriculum included the following topics: Introduction to Cybersecurity, Introduction to Programming in Python, Cryptography, Steganography, and Digital Forensics. At the end of the summer, I virtually taught this content to ~25 8-12th grade students over the course of 5 days.
Skills: Cryptography, Steganography, Digital Forensics, Python, Leadership, Teaching
TRAININGS
🔍 FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics by the SANS Institute 2024
Instructor: Eric Zimmerman
I am currently studying for the GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) Exam.
RESEARCH
💻 Utilizing Large Language Models in Forensics to Enhance Investigation Efficiency and Accuracy, Rochester Institute of Technology 2024
This project aimed at determining if we could expedite a typical digital forensics investigation process by creating a specialized Large Language Model. My team established a series of quantitative measures (Consistency, Accuracy, and Guidance) for evaluating our model’s results. Please refer to our poster presentation for the results!
Disclaimer — This is an undergraduate capstone project. At its current state, it is still extremely premature and requires further testing, research, and refinement. Although these results impressive, we find them insufficient in assisting in a DFIR investigation in a professional setting.
Skills: Digital Forensics, Llama2, ChatGPT, Research
😷 Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Surgical and Fabric Masks, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) 2021
This research was done as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at NYIT. For this research, I worked independently to determine how masks impact interpersonal communication using machine learning techniques. Our research paper was also accepted into the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
Read Our Paper: Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Surgical and Fabric Masks
Disclaimer — The summer I was accepted for this REU, I worked on this project independently. Professor Cao and another student later continued working on the project as I was not able to cover the facial recognition portion of the research due to time constraints.
Skills: Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, openSMILE, CREMA-D, Python, Research, LaTeX
CONFERENCES
🫎 ShmooCon 2025, 2023, 2022
📻 BSides 2025 (ROC), 2024 (NYC, ROC)
🏆 Women in CyberSecurity 2023 (Denver), 2022 (Cleveland), 2021 (Denver)
🤞 DEFCON, BlackHat, DistrictCon, etc.! Cons I want to go to!
RIT EXTRACURRICULARS
🔐 RITSEC (RIT’s Cybersecurity Club) 2021 - 2024
RITSEC is one of the largest student organization’s at RIT. Students are able to attend and present at weekly meetings that discuss a variety of education and research based cybersecurity topics.
Position(s): General Member
Presentation(s): Watch my Career Fair Preparation presentation!
🧠 Women in CyberSecurity (RIT’s WiCyS Chapter) 2022 - 2024
As Secretary for WiCyS, I organized weekly meetings at RIT to establish a community of cybersecurity women at RIT. Part of my role was also to reach out to industry professionals to guest speak at weekly meetings, present on security related topics, and be a mentor to our members.
Position(s): Secretary (2022-2023), General Member
🌹 Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, Inc. 2021 - 2024
The National Philanthropy of Sigma Psi Zeta is to combat violence against womxn in its varied forms. This includes but is not limited to the following: rape, incest, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, exploitation, the trafficking of womxn and children, the abuse of migrant workers, intimidation at work, child abuse, harassment, and spousal abuse. Any kind of physical, emotional, or mental duress constitutes violence.
Position(s): President (2023), Secretary (2022-2023), Program Educator, Program Educator Assistant, Philanthropy, Fundraising, Social Media
👩🏫 Women in Computing (Student Club @ RIT) 2020 - 2022
As outreach committee head for WiC, I was responsible for leading the K-12 outreach committee to communicate and organize cybersecurity events with local schools and programs.
Position(s): Outreach Committee Head (2021-2022), Social Media Committee, General Member
Event(s): K-12 outreach, Girl Scout Badge Day, YMCA outreach program