Rong Xu

Ph.D. Student

University of Delaware

Biography

Rong(Abby) Xu is a Ph.D. student at University of Delaware Computer Information Science department, advising by Dr. Xu Yuan. Her research interests include machine learning, AI security and privacy, and graph neural network.

Interests

Machine Learning
AI Security and Privacy
Graph Neural Network

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Expected 2028
University of Delaware
BSc in Computer Science, 2023
Texas A&M University

Experience

Software Dev Engineer Intern

Amazon

May 2022 – August 2022 Austin, Texas

Built a full-stack web portal to enable the rest of the FireTV teams onboarding to the service involved with getting confidential on-device log data, resulting in a 30% reduction in the overall process time and providing a universal platform for data collection and status tracking.
Used React for the front-end, AWS’s DynamoDB for an intermediate DB, and API Gateway for back-end integration (CRUD data)
Designed and wrote up detailed documentation regarding intermediate/back-end API endpoints & database schemas

Technical Marketing Intern - Security

Splunk

May 2021 – August 2021 San Francisco, California

Designed and built the ETL pipeline to import infosec vendor sample data from 200+ sources into a new globally distributed demos environment to improve the event and product marketing flexibility in use, providing cost-saving options on 60k annual demonstration across 3 regions with permission outside of isolation through unlocking data stuck within a static demonstration
Exported sample data and Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) code of dashboards to re-build corresponding demos on the cloud after generating a 1 billion row dataset in Python and connecting with Splunk Cloud by REST API for quicker result calling
Transformed unstructured machine data, iterated utilization resulting in 75% run time improvement, and completed the 45-min ES demo presentation with another teammate

Accomplishments

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Google Code Jam to I/O for Women 2022

Google Jun 2022

Participated in Google Code Jam to I/O for Women 2022 and achieved a Global Rank of 386 among 3200+ competitive participants.

3rd Place of Aggies Invent 2022

TAMU Department of Engineering Mar 2022

Worked with a team of 6 to design a Helmet-mounted thermal imaging feedback device, and awarded the the Third Place Winner in Aggies Invent - First Responders with 500 dollars reward

Best Hardware Hack of TAMUhack 2021

TAMUhack Feb 2021 – Feb 2021

Worked with a team of 4 to solve the American Airlines Challenge, and awarded the Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key among 150+ teams

1st Place of Educating Smart Marine Aggies Robotic Technologies Competition 2020

Texas A&M University at Galveston Feb 2020 – May 2020

Led a team of six engineering students to participate eSMART, and awarded the First Place with 500 dollars reward

2nd Place of TAMUG Undergraduate Chemistry Poster Symposium

Texas A&M University at Galveston Sep 2019 – Dec 2019

In 2019 Undergraduate Chemistry Poster Symposium, present the Second Place Poster Award in Chemical Health & Safety for the poster entitled “How NACL Intake Effects Daily Health”