Eric Zeng
Postdoctoral Associate
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Zeng is a postdoctoral researcher and software engineer specializing in usable security and privacy, with 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry. He builds full-stack prototypes and large-scale measurements to uncover and mitigate real-world harms on online platforms, combining user research, web/mobile development, and machine learning. His work—published at venues like USENIX Security, CHI, IMC, and NDSS—has tackled issues from HTTPS misconfigurations and online advertising harms to smart home authentication. Comfortable in both Chromium-level engineering and Kubernetes-backed infrastructure, he translates usability insights into deployable security features. Based in Washington, DC, he blends rigorous experimental methods with production-minded engineering, often shipping research code that informs platform design and policy.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science & Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (70)
testing10
automation10
nike10
hikvision10
javascript10
chromium10
firefox10
api10
developer-tools10
js-api10
node-module10
nodejs10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
google-home9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eric-zeng/auctora
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:181 commits, 158 pushes, 18 branches in 7 months
UWCSESecurityLab/adscraper
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
A web crawler for scraping online ad content
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 111 pushes in 28 days
pythonscrapyweb-crawlerspiderscraping
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