Evan Downing
Senior Security Engineer, AI ML at Trail of Bits
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Downing is a Senior Security Engineer specializing in AI/ML with 11 years of experience at the intersection of cybersecurity and machine learning. He builds practical tools that integrate security analysts into ML decision-making, focusing on automation that improves analyst workflow efficiency and accuracy. A PhD researcher and former Georgia Tech grad student, he published in top-tier security conferences, mentored peers, and helped commercialize research through MLSploit. At Trail of Bits he led an award-winning DARPA AI Cyber Challenge team and benchmarked search platforms for AWS, showing a blend of research rigor and high-stakes, production-focused engineering. Based in the Atlanta area, Evan combines kernel-level offensive research experience from national labs with contemporary ML assurance and auditing work, aiming to make secure ML systems auditable and usable day-to-day.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Github Skills (35)
crossword10
test-data10
parallelization10
qemu10
quality-assurance10
abstract-interpretation10
reverse-engineering10
architecture9
dynamic-analysis9
source-code-analysis9
sequence8
api8
subtitle6
machine-learning6
command-line4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
evandowning/model-api-sequence
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
Creates ML model of sequence of API calls
Contributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years
apisequencemachine-learningcalls
evandowning/evandowning.github.io
Apr 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:75 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
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