Katherine Wu

CS PhD Student at Cornell

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Research Intern at USI Università della Svizzera italiana
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    Coq mechanization of Hydra, a language-based approach to providing end-to-end security guarantees for distributed data processing applications

  • Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      Jan 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

      File Systems and Storage Lab (FSL) Worked on two projects: - Research project in collaboration with IBM to develop a mathematical model that optimizes storage costs for serverless applications by balancing durability and compute costs - Senior honors thesis on developing a formal semantics for the compute-storage separation model intrinsic in serverless computing platforms

    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Research project in computational learning theory and formal languages, developed new noise-tolerant learning algorithms to show that the string extension formal language classes are learnable from noisy training data in polynomial time, advised by Prof. Jeff Heinz

  • Software Engineer Intern at Travelers
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 · 3 mos

    React development on the Claims technology team

  • Information Security Intern at Markel
    May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos

    Implemented a quantitative model for evaluating cyber risk using the FAIR framework

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Stony Brook University
    Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 · 5 mos

    Teaching Assistant for CSE 150, Fundamentals of Computer Science: Honors, a course on discrete math. Planned and led weekly recitation section, held weekly office hours, and graded exams and homework assignments.