Kathy Wain Yee Au

abqd8q@r.postjobfree.com

**** *******

EDUCATION University of Toronto

Master of Applied Science

Research Focus: Mobile Device Security

**** ****

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science

Computer Option

TECHNICAL C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, Verilog, HTML, Quartus II, MS Office Suite,

SKILLS Adobe Photoshop, Android OS, W indows 2000/XP/7, UNIX, Linux

ENGINEERING Software Engineering Intern at Google Inc. 2012 Summer

EXPERIENCE Implemented a new detection pipeline on the SafeBrowsing Team

2010 present

Mobile OS Permission Model Research

PScout: Analyzing the Android Permission Specification (CCS 2012)

A Look at SmartPhone Permission Models (CCS SPSM 2011)

2010 present

Teaching Assistant

Courses: Digital and Computer Systems, VLSI Systems

Supervised and graded individual students during their weekly labs

2009 2010

Hardware Implementation of DREM

Undergraduate thesis supervised by Professor David Lie

Designed and implemented a simplified version of a previously proposed

architectural support for Deterministic Redundant Execution in Multi-cores

to detect malicious memory attacks

2008 2009

PEY (16 months internship) at Altera Corporation

Hired as a software developer in the Timing Model Team

Worked as the software lead for transceiver block timing and followed a

complete design flow from project definition to model maintenance and

regression tests creation

Developed a new experiment flow to isolate and evaluate impacts of

timing changes on the overall Quartus CAD tool

Computer Organization Course 2007 Fall

Designed digital circuits in verilog and simulated the behaviour of the

circuits using Altera Quartus II software

Collaborated with a partner to design and implement a simple processor

circuit on the FPGA chip on Altera s DEII board

Kathy Wain Yee Au

abqd8q@r.postjobfree.com

The Artificial Perception Laboratory (APL) 2007 Summer

Summer Research Student (NSERC)

Integrated a camera feature to an automatic photo tagging/searching web

engine where real-time photos captured from network cameras were

displayed and archived for home security purposes

Studied motion tracking algorithms based on differences between

consecutive frames to extract keyframes from user-uploaded videos

Engineering Design Course 2007 Winter

Microcontroller Subsystem Owner

Collaborated with 2 team members to design an pipe-inspection machine

Planned, programmed and optimized the microcontroller component of

the system to perform required functionalities in our system specification

Submitted a proposal and a 200-pages final report to demonstrate

credibility and final results of the prototype. Engineering design tools such

as Gantt charts, PERT and AHP analysis were incorporated

OTHER 2006 IT & Engineering Career Fair Oct 2006

EXPERIENCE Served as a volunteer on the Event Logistics team

EXTRA 2007 2008

U of T Footprint Publication

CURRICULAR Collaborated with other production board members during the production

ACTIVITIES of the seasonal paper, provided software support

College Puzzle Challenge Nov 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Competed in the annual puzzle-solving competition held simultaneously

on college campuses across North America

Frosh Leader Sept 2006, 2007

Assisted in the organization of events during frosh week and guided

new-coming first year students during the orientation

AWARDS NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship 2011-12

2010 2011

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2005 2010

3.87 Cumulative GPA

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards 2007 Summer

Chachra Family Scholarship 2006

2005 2010

Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship

REFERENCES Available Upon Request

Contact this candidate