Luke Deshotels
Senior Staff (Security) Engineer, Research at Samsung Research America (SRA)
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Deshotels is a Senior Staff Security Research Engineer with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Security from NC State, specializing in iOS and mobile platform protections. He has blended academic rigor—publishing top-tier work on Apple iOS security—with hands-on roles at Samsung Research America, TikTok (product security and privacy red team), and Qualcomm, focusing on access control, reverse engineering, and mobile threat modeling. Based in San Jose, he supports B2B product security and privacy engineering while bringing a research-first approach to practical product risk reduction. Notably, his background includes tooling for static binary analysis and creative research into out-of-band communications and steganography, reflecting a knack for finding subtle attack surfaces.
9 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 North Carolina State UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (4)
access-control7
ios6
automation-framework6
ios-security6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
malus-security/ioracle
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Automated analysis of the iOS access control architecture
Contributions:176 commits in 1 year 10 months
access-controlautomation-frameworkiosios-security
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