Noah Curran
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoah Curran is a PhD candidate and Graduate Student Research Assistant at the University of Michigan specializing in safety and security of semi-autonomous vehicles, combining nine years of software and research experience to make autonomous systems safer and more ethical. He has applied his background in cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems across industry internships at Toyota Research Institute, Lear Corporation, and a forthcoming role at Meta, and his work earned an NSF GRFP honorable mention. Noah blends rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering—contributing front-end improvements to popular open-source projects like the Tabliss new-tab extension—while focusing on practical vehicle safety interventions such as passive BLE augmentation. He brings cross-domain experience from automotive security to robotics and has a track record of presenting work at venues like VehicleSec and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Hons.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Hons.), Mathematics at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma with Honors, High School Diploma with Honors at Sylvania Southview High School
English
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
webextension10
react10
typescript-types10
browser-extension9
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
google-chrome-extension9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joelshepherd/tabliss
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
A beautiful, customisable New Tab page for Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Noah primarily contributed to the front-end development of the "Tabliss" browser extension. Their commits focused on enhancing the "Todo" widget, adding functionality for user-defined keybinds, and modifying UI elements. Additionally, they addressed UI aspects by removing blur and luminosity effects on focus. They also merged changes from other branches, incorporating external contributions.
new-tab-pagefirefoxwebextensionedgechrome
killzbro/bpa-project
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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