Hila Abraham
Principal Research Engineer at Real-Time Innovations (RTI)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHila Abraham is a Principal Research Engineer with 12 years of experience applying academic rigor to practical security and networking problems, currently leading research at RTI and teaching cybersecurity at Washington University in St. Louis. She has driven defense-funded projects as a principal investigator, developing data-centric threat modeling and semantic anomaly detection systems that blend passive monitoring with AI techniques. Her research lineage in Information-Centric Networking and Named Data Networking (including contributions to the ndnSIM ns-3 simulator and its nfdc CLI) informs resilient, connectivity-agnostic protocol designs for intermittent and tactical environments. Hila’s background spans embedded real-time systems, reverse engineering, and large-scale distributed traffic management, giving her a rare combination of low-level systems expertise and high-level algorithmic research. She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and brings a track record of turning DARPA-funded concepts into deployable tools and classroom-ready curricula. Colleagues know her for pragmatic innovation: she not only invents novel abstractions like Information-Centric Transport but also implements the command-line utilities that make them usable in the field.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of science, Computer Engineering at Bar-Ilan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
command-line10
networkmanager9
management9
net9
manage9
boost8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM
Feb 2014 - Dec 2014
ndnSIM: NS-3 based NDN simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Hila primarily worked on the `nfdc` tool, a command-line interface for managing Named Data Networking (NDN) functionalities. Their contributions included implementing commands for face and FIB management, such as creating/destroying faces, adding/removing nexthops, and setting/unsetting strategy choices. The user also added support for an 'add' command to combine face creation and nexthop addition and fixed a port number parsing issue.
simulatorsimulationndnns-3
2nd-ndn-hackathon/ndn-rtc-congestion-control
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 21 pushes in 1 day
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