Xueyuan Vanbastelaer
Senior AI Research Scientist at AppGate
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXueyuan Vanbastelaer is a Senior AI Research Scientist who bridges computer systems, cybersecurity, and ML/AI to design practical defenses against sophisticated cyberthreats. With 11 years of experience and a Ph.D. from Harvard, they have published at top security and systems venues (IEEE S&P, USENIX, ACM CCS, NDSS) and served on program committees and NSF review panels. Their work spans academia and industry—from tenure-track faculty and research roles at Cambridge and Harvard to product-facing research at startups and enterprises—resulting in filed patents and real-world adoption. Notable projects include SIGL, a high-accuracy installer-malware detector, and Splice, a novel framework for secure in-memory deletion, demonstrating a knack for turning deep research into deployable tooling. Based in Winston-Salem, NC, they continue to translate data-driven insights into threat-hunting algorithms and ML-secure systems at the intersection of theory and practice. An uncommon strength is their track record of both shaping academic discourse and driving industry integration, making their research unusually operational.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesPhilosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Harvard UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (66)
linux-kernel9
linux9
cpp9
machine-learning9
kernel9
big-data8
simulate8
dataset-generation8
private-network7
tor7
simulation7
shadow7
emulation6
deep-learning6
simulator6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
margoseltzer/camflow-apt
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:34 commits in 1 month
crimson-unicorn/analyzer
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
GraphChi's C++ version. Big Data - small machine.
Contributions:642 commits, 551 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 5 months
small-datacppmachine-learningbig-data
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