Phuong Cao
Deputy Executive Director at Trusted CI
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolPhuong Cao is a cybersecurity and HPC researcher who leads cyberinfrastructure security and resiliency programs at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and serves as Deputy Executive Director of JLESC. With 11 years of experience and a PhD track in electrical and computer engineering, he directs multiple NSF-funded projects on secure AI for science, post-quantum observability, and formalizing federated authentication. A Trusted CI Fellow and NSF proposal reviewer, he translates formal methods and security research into practical tools and partnerships with industry (IBM Research), national testbeds, and DOE labs. His background spans research stints at Microsoft Research and IBM Watson, production security work at Akamai and LinkedIn, and early malware-forensics engineering in Vietnam, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from exploit analysis to large-scale HPC defenses. Notably, he is commercializing HPC-Quantum observability work (PQSee) and has been recognized for teaching and mentorship alongside technical awards.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange, High Performance Computing, International Exchange, High Performance Computing at Pohang University of Science and TechnologyBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Hanoi University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (68)
python8
authenticator8
fabric8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
docker-image8
github-oauth8
subnet7
deep-learning7
oauth-client7
data-science7
tensorflow7
network-monitoring7
database-engine6
security6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pmcao/pmcao.github.io
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:43 pushes in 8 months
pmcao/svauth-python-adapter-example
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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