Katherine Hough
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Hough is an Applied Scientist at AWS with eight years of experience bridging research and production in program analysis and software testing. She earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 2024, where her graduate research focused on dynamic analysis and JVM testing techniques. Her work includes contributions to dynamic taint tracking and practical approaches for repurposing functional tests to find injection vulnerabilities, developed during roles at George Mason and Northeastern. Katherine has complemented academia with industry research experience at Microsoft Research and hands-on engineering internships at naval research labs, giving her a strong track record of shipping reliable testing tools and debugging complex systems. Based in Virginia, she combines rigorous academic training (perfect GPA across BS/MS/PhD) with a pragmatic focus on making program analysis techniques work at scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0 at Northeastern UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at George Mason University
Github Skills (29)
jvm10
maven-plugin9
authorization8
commons8
quickcheck7
hugo7
jekyll7
java7
junit7
fuzzing7
property-based-testing7
fuzzer6
kotlin6
apache-commons6
security6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Soup2Nuts/backend
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 97 pushes, 7 branches in 16 days
katherine-hough/cedar
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Implementation of the Cedar Policy Language
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 219 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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