Nathaniel Salazar's CV

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Education

[December 2020] BS in Computer Science at Virginia Tech with a minor in Mathematics and Cybersecurity

[May 2021] MS in Computer Science at Virginia Tech

Favorite Classes

Undergraduate

• Computer Systems (CS 3214)
• Data and Algorithm Analysis (CS 4104)
• Network Architecture Programming (CS 4254)
• Machine Learning (CS 4824)
• Quantum Cryptography (MATH 4984)

Graduate

• Operating Systems (CS 5204)
• System and Software Security (CS 5590)
• AI Tech Cybersecurity Defense (CS 6804)

Work Experience

Department of Defense as a Stokes Scholar [2018 - Current]

Graduate Teaching Assistant [2021]

• Computer Systems (CS 3214)

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant [2019 - 2020]

• Intro Programming in C++ (CS 1044)
• Comparative Languages (CS 3304)
• Computer Systems (CS 3214)

Research

Researcher in the combalgo group under Dr. Sharath Raghvendra.

Main project working on implementing the an approximate bottleneck matching algorithm describe in this JOCG 2019 paper

Link to Git Repo (Still in progress)

Projects/Competitions

VTCheck

[2020] Room management web application to monitor occupancy at Virginia Tech as part of the TECH Together Campaign. Continued onto Phase 3 of the competition.

Pylon Parking

[2020] Senior Systems Capstone Project providing a Blockchain solution to Parking at Virginia Tech. Won "Honorable Mention".

Hackathons

• [2020]GMTK Game Jam 2020 - Arcade Shooter
• [2020]SheHacks - Web app to connect homeless shelters with restaurants that have excess food Won "Best Philanthropy App"
• [2018]PatriotHacks - Twitter Sentimental Analysis Web App. Won "Best Use of Open Source Libraries"
• [2018]Hack.UVA - Messaging App with RSA encryption built on Java.

CTFs

• [2019]CyberFusion
• [2019]CCDC
• [2018]MetaCTF