Weiqi Feng
Teaching Assistant at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWeiqi Feng is a PhD student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst with eight years of experience bridging applied systems engineering and cryptographic research. As a teaching assistant and former research assistant, they have lectured on network security, mentored students on practical tools like OpenSSL and Wireshark, and proved a new primitive enabling a linear-time inner-product functional encryption scheme. Their industry experience includes building ML model dashboards and observability for Kubernetes at PathAI, plus leading a team that developed authorship attribution models and visualization tools. Comfortable across research and production environments, Weiqi combines rigorous theoretical work with hands-on systems and full-stack engineering. Notably, they’ve translated cryptographic theory into concrete, performance-improving designs while maintaining a strong focus on pedagogy and reproducible tooling.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95 at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass AmherstBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, 3.85, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, 3.85 at Wheaton College Massachusetts
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (7)
flask10
python9
cube4
javascript3
react3
encryption2
cryptography2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Weiqi97/LilyPadz
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 month
Weiqi97/Wheaton-Course-Selection
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
A redesign of wheaton course selection web page.
Contributions:59 PRs, 98 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year 8 months
reactjavascriptselectionweb-pageredesign
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