Steven Xia
Graduate Research Assistant
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Xia is a PhD student in Computer Science at UIUC and a graduate research assistant with eight years of engineering and research experience spanning security, low-power architecture, and machine learning for software vulnerability detection. He graduated top of his class from the University of Toronto (3.99/4.00) and contributed to multiple peer-reviewed systems and security papers, including USENIX Security and MICRO, where his work ranged from large-scale Android permission studies to cycle-accurate simulators for intermittent processors. He has industry experience as an SDE intern at Amazon and has built experimental apps used by over 1,700 participants, demonstrating both practical product instincts and rigorous experimental design. Steven blends deep research rigor with hands-on software development, often applying ML techniques to real-world security and systems problems. An uncommon thread in his profile is the combination of ultra-low-power hardware simulation expertise with modern deep-learning approaches to vulnerability localization.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, 3.99/4.00 GPA, 92.3% average, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, 3.99/4.00 GPA, 92.3% average at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (89)
modular10
modulo10
selenium-webdriver10
facebook-post10
scraper10
twitter9
golang9
programming-language9
benchmark9
python9
clang9
facebook9
sat9
toolchain9
llvm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brutalsavage/facebook-post-scraper
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
Facebook Post Scraper 🕵️🖱️
Contributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
pythonfacebook-scraperweb-scraperfacebookselenium-webdriver
KarthikGanesan88/thumbulator
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
simulationsimulatorcyclearmv6cycle-accurate
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