Allison Naaktgeboren
Graduate Research Assistant
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAllison Naaktgeboren is a PhD researcher and graduate research assistant at Portland State University with 15 years of software engineering experience focused on making security tools more practical and pragmatic. Her work bridges fuzzing, symbolic execution, and hardware-assisted enforcement (PIPE) to improve bug report quality, root-cause analysis, and extend fuzzers beyond memory safety. She has industry experience at Mozilla, Amazon, Cisco, Signal Sciences, and Draper, where she implemented novel fuzzing algorithms and shipping security-sensitive features. A former instructor and founder of PSU’s CTF team, she combines deep engineering chops with teaching and outreach, including developing privacy training for engineers. Allison’s research asks unconventional questions—such as how initial seed corpora shape fuzzing outcomes—and she pursues those empirically to produce actionable tooling improvements.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Portland State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (23)
stability7
vulnerabilities6
bit6
security6
mojolicious5
benchmark4
perl4
python4
fuzzing4
scalable4
mozilla4
version-control3
infrastructure3
git-lfs2
forking2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
anaaktge/talks
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
anaaktge/build2learn
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 months
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