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Tianyi Shan

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PhD candidate in Computer Security and Systems at UC San Diego, advised by Kristen Vaccaro and Earlence Fernandes.

My research focuses on building secure and reliable systems, with current work on confidential computing for ML model auditing. I have experience in authentication security, access control diagnostics, and cloud infrastructure.

Research Interests: Confidential Computing, System Security, Authentication, Access Control, Cloud Systems
Education

University of California San Diego

PhD, Computer Science
2019 - present

University of Wisconsin-Madison

BS, Computer Science
2019

Experience

Amazon Web Services

Applied Scientist Intern, Automated Reasoning Group
Summer 2023

VMware

vSAN Performance Engineer Intern
Summer 2020

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego
Operating Systems (CSE 120, CSE 221), Computer Security (CSE 227), Human-Computer Interaction (CSE 170)
2020 - present

Skills

Areas: Confidential Computing (AMD SEV-SNP), System Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems

Technologies: AWS, LLVM, Docker, CloudLab

Languages: Python, C/C++, Rust, Java