Mingye Chen
Graduate Research Assistant
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingye Chen is a research-oriented software engineer and PhD candidate in Computer Engineering with eight years of experience building covert networking systems and annotation tools. At the University of Michigan they helped create Conjure, implementing a DNS-tunneled registrar in Go and a DTLS-based UDP transport that reduced registration latency by over 80% and mimicked WebRTC traffic for stealthy proxying. They have full-stack experience—Flask REST APIs, React frontends, and SQLite backends—plus a knack for designing flexible, JSON-driven annotation interfaces and multi-task active learning to accelerate labeling. Now a graduate research assistant at CU Boulder, Mingye blends rigorous academic research with practical systems engineering, often optimizing distributed registration and maintainability of middleware. An understated strength is their ability to translate security and networking research into production-ready components that measurably improve performance.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Chinese
Github Skills (50)
crypto10
udp10
handshake10
low-level10
anticensorship10
obfuscation10
ja310
parrot10
driver10
golang10
fingerprinting10
sctp9
financial9
dbus9
credit-card9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mingyech/conjure
Jun 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:322 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
networkingstationrefraction
mingyech/gotapdance
Jun 2022 - Aug 2024
:twisted_rightwards_arrows: Cross-platform Golang implementation of TapDance censorship circumvention system client
Contributions:149 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 2 months
golangcensorship-circumventionarrowscircumventioncensorship
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