842 N. Rengstorff Ave. Apt. E Mountain View, CA 94043-2437
Work:
(650) 723-1565
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 707 Palo Alto, CA 94302-0707
Home:
(650) 967-1188
Objective
An MIT and Stanford computer science graduate with extensive Internet
software engineering and cryptography
expertise wishes to pursue contracting or startup opportunities
in network security, electronic commerce, Web development,
or related fields.
Education
Stanford University - M.S. in Computer Science awarded June 1997. GPA estimated at 3.9 out of a possible 4.0.
M.I.T. -
B.S. in Computer Science awarded May 1993. GPA: 4.3 out of a possible 5.0.
Past academic awards include the Bell-Northern Research Prize (1992),
and the Renssalaer Medal (1989).
Other awards and prizes received for outstanding performance and coursework
in VLSI design, Network Programming, Computation Structures, and other
recent courses,
in addition to an assortment of mathematics competition awards
dating back to high school.
Computing Expertise
Over ten years of programming experience, including but not limited
to Java, C/C++, Perl, and LISP. Have worked in a variety of development
environments and have written high-level scripts all the way down to
assembly language code.
Extremely familiar with Unix and its variants. Have used and coded
on VAXen, SPARCs, SGIs, and Linux on PCs, among others.
Experience dates back
to VAX 11/750 and Pyramid mainframes. Also familiar with PC hardware,
plus some knowledge of DOS and Windows flavors.
Fields of specialization include computer security, operating system
internals and computational mathematics (e.g. computer graphics,
cryptography).
Experience with Internet and World Wide Web protocols (HTML, CGI)
and software. Currently maintaining a personal
Web server that houses a
number of award-winning Web projects and handles around 50,000 hits a day.
Extensive experience with designing and implementing secure systems
for a wide range of network security requirements.
Well-versed in the fields of public-key cryptography, secure protocols,
and authentication technology.
Designed a new password-based authentication protocol that has resulted
in both a published paper and a pending patent from Stanford.
As Principal Engineer, designed significant portions of the company's
codebase for its WebFort product line, a software suite that issues
software tokens to users and provides authentication and digital-signature
functionality to end-users.
Also involved with Arcot's credit card payer-authentication project.
Worked with
Dan Boneh
on a software implementation of intrusion-tolerant public-key cryptography
based on shared RSA keys.
This project integrated extensively with
OpenSSL and was developed
under Solaris and Windows NT.
Worked as a research assistant under
Paul Losleben,
developing Web tools and infrastructure for researchers.
Involved with CGI scripting and HTML work,
as well as frequent collaboration with colleagues at
Netscape and
EIT.
Defined, designed, and implemented a prototype of a completely Java-based
desktop environment ("Webtop") and its associated API for application
developers.
Currently pursuing a U.S. patent for a new secure identification and
authentication protocol developed for this project.
Other - Miscellaneous work
Did volunteer consultant work for MIT Project Athena as an undergraduate
student.
Have also done some moonlighting work installing and upgrading PCs and
their software and countless miscellaneous programming jobs both for pay
and for free.
Patents
"A Method for Securely Logging Into a Remote Computer System" - patent pending
Papers & Publications
T. Wu, The Secure Remote Password Protocol, in Proceedings of the 1998 Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, Mar 1998, pp. 97-111.
References
References available upon request.
Other Interests
Tinkering with my Linux box/web server
Expanding my steadily-growing CD/laserdisc collection
Photography, numismatics, Dilbert comics
Table tennis, volleyball, martial arts (3rd kyu rank in aiki-jujitsu)
Finding new and interesting diversions in the Bay Area.