Summary
Meah Ahmed is a PhD candidate and research-focused software engineer with seven years of experience building full-stack applications, automation tooling, and security research prototypes. Currently a Research Assistant at UT Dallas, Meah’s work centers on fuzz testing and automated vulnerability benchmarking, drawing on prior research that extracted bug-fix patterns and leveraged ASTs to seed test datasets. Industry internships at Amazon, AWS, NCR, and Jewelers Mutual demonstrate a track record of shipping production features—ranging from React/TypeScript front ends and Java APIs on AWS Lambda to Python-based automation that cut onboarding or testing time by substantial margins. Meah blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering: contributing to AutoML/CORDS research, integrating hyperparameter tuning, and adapting crawlers to map cyber-attack techniques from MITRE. Known for mentoring undergraduates and translating research into usable tooling, Meah brings a rare mix of applied security research and hands-on systems development.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas