Phuong Cao
Deputy Executive Director at Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolPhuong Cao is a cybersecurity and HPC researcher who leads cyberinfrastructure security and resiliency programs at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and serves as Deputy Executive Director of JLESC. With 11 years of experience and a PhD track in electrical and computer engineering, he directs multiple NSF-funded projects on secure AI for science, post-quantum observability, and formalizing federated authentication. A Trusted CI Fellow and NSF proposal reviewer, he translates formal methods and security research into practical tools and partnerships with industry (IBM Research), national testbeds, and DOE labs. His background spans research stints at Microsoft Research and IBM Watson, production security work at Akamai and LinkedIn, and early malware-forensics engineering in Vietnam, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from exploit analysis to large-scale HPC defenses. Notably, he is commercializing HPC-Quantum observability work (PQSee) and has been recognized for teaching and mentorship alongside technical awards.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange, High Performance Computing, International Exchange, High Performance Computing at Pohang University of Science and TechnologyBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Hanoi University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (50)
pcap9
security9
zeek9
network-monitoring9
latex9
python8
authenticator8
bro8
integrate8
docker-image8
matplotlib-style-sheets8
data-science7
oauth-client7
pytorch7
github-oauth7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pmcao/pmcao.github.io
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:43 pushes in 8 months
pmcao/svauth-python-adapter-example
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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