Summary
Tianjiao Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in System Software and Compilers at UC Irvine with nine years of hands-on experience building secure, high-performance systems. They have a rare blend of academic depth and industry exposure, having interned at Microsoft Research (Cambridge and Redmond), Google (three internships), and a San Francisco startup, contributing to both research labs and production engineering teams. At UCI they’ve worked across the Secure Systems and Mars Research groups, focusing on compiler and system-level security problems that bridge theory and deployable tooling. Tianjiao’s career shows a pattern of early technical leadership—moving from NSF REU undergraduate research to multi-year graduate research roles—plus repeat selection by top labs, signaling strong problem-solving and collaboration skills. Based in Irvine, CA, they combine rigorous PhD research with practical experience shipping software at scale.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Session Computer Science, Summer Session Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Diablo Valley College
University of California, Irvine