Summary
Dzung Pham is a PhD candidate and student researcher at UMass Amherst specializing in the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning, with nine years of industry and academic experience. He previously built ML systems at Meta to detect fraud, scams, and harassment on Facebook Marketplace and has interned on performance-focused research for local LLM agents at Brave. A magna cum laude graduate in Computer Science and Statistics from Williams College, he has deep teaching and research experience across security, ML, and programming languages. Dzung’s background spans production ML, systems research, and pedagogical tool design (including work on a ProDirect Manipulation language), reflecting a blend of practical engineering and rigorous research. Based in Amherst, MA, he maintains an active academic profile and shares projects and writing on his personal website.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MS/PhD Computer Science, MS/PhD Computer Science at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Statistics at Williams College