Elisa Luo
Graduate Student
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElisa Luo is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego who researches large-scale empirical studies of cybercrime, online privacy, and security under Professors Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker. With nine years of hands-on experience spanning data-driven security research, ML engineering, and backend systems, she has shipped production features at Meta and deployed ML classifiers at Barracuda that proactively caught previously undetected fraudulent emails. A Columbia Engineering magna cum laude graduate, Elisa blends big-data tooling (Apache Spark, PrestoSQL) with practical systems work (VMs, Docker, Hack/PHP) and has contributed to projects presented at top security venues. She has a track record of turning research into operational impact—winning Columbia DSI awards and contributing to publications—while mentoring students through teaching assistant roles in systems and networking. Notably, her background bridges enterprise phishing analysis, cryptocurrency tracing for financial fraud, and experimental ML ranking pipelines, giving her a rare cross-section of research rigor and production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Crofton House SchoolBachelor of Science - BS; Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS; Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (6)
git10
github10
patch10
subversion9
qr-code2
scanner2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ElisaLuo/ElisaLuo.github.io
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
ElisaLuo/Daily-Reading
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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