Qi Deng
Principal Threat Research Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQi Deng is a Principal Threat Research Engineer based in California with 11 years of hands-on experience in security research, specializing in AI security, agentic AI, and emerging attack surfaces. Currently leading threat research at Aurascape after advancing through senior research and management roles at Palo Alto Networks, Qi has overseen teams of up to 14 researchers and ML engineers protecting widely used software and AI infrastructure. Their work spans vulnerability research across major vendors (Microsoft, Adobe) and cutting-edge GenAI platforms (Nvidia, LangChain), blending deep technical exploitation skills with operational product impact. A USC-trained computer scientist with a physics background, Qi pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical adversarial thinking—aptly summarized by their GitHub motto, "Eat, sleep and pwn"—and has a history of translating research findings into protective product features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, computer science, Master's degree, computer science at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hefei No.1 High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Dalian University of Technology
Github Skills (6)
dig4
indexing2
python2
etl1
information-retrieval1
indexer1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ikow/ikow.github.io
Dec 2014 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 28 pushes in 3 years 9 months
ikow/tic-tac-toe-rb-cb-gh-000
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:131 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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