Katherine Hough
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Hough is an Applied Scientist at AWS with eight years of experience bridging research and production in program analysis and software testing. She earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 2024, where her graduate research focused on dynamic analysis and JVM testing techniques. Her work includes contributions to dynamic taint tracking and practical approaches for repurposing functional tests to find injection vulnerabilities, developed during roles at George Mason and Northeastern. Katherine has complemented academia with industry research experience at Microsoft Research and hands-on engineering internships at naval research labs, giving her a strong track record of shipping reliable testing tools and debugging complex systems. Based in Virginia, she combines rigorous academic training (perfect GPA across BS/MS/PhD) with a pragmatic focus on making program analysis techniques work at scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0 at Northeastern UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at George Mason University
Github Skills (35)
garbage-collector10
jvm10
phosphor10
gwt10
jsinterop10
java10
openjdk10
maven9
maven-plugin8
coverage8
zest8
quickcheck7
hugo7
commons7
gamma7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
katherine-hough/cedar
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Implementation of the Cedar Policy Language
Contributions:22 PRs, 140 pushes, 16 branches in 26 days
Soup2Nuts/backend
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 97 pushes, 7 branches in 16 days
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