About Me

Hi! I'm Alvin Tran, a current Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering student at the University of Louisville. I'm apart of the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service program at my unversity, an active member of the ACM Cyber Defense SIG, and a graduate research assistant for Engineering Fundamentals working with machine learning.

Achievements

National Cyber League
- Spring 2024 Individual [110/7400, top 2%] – Team [52/412, top 2%]
- Fall 2024 Individual [43/8482, top 0.5%] – Team [12/534, top 2%], experience student bracket
Hivestorm Cyber Defense Competition
- Fall 2024 Team [68/413]
UofL IEEE Outstanding CSE Student Award
CompTIA Security+ Certification
CSA CCSK

Papers

1st Author: Categorical Variable Coding for Machine Learning in Engineering Education in 2024 IEEE FIE
2nd Author: C. R. Bego, A. Tran, P. A. S. Ralston, C. Crockett, R. J. Chastain and K. B. Lyle, “Spaced Retrieval Practice Improves Engineering Student Performance in Physics,” 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) link
GRA: Bego, C. R., & Withorn, T., & Danovitch, J., & Thompson, A., & Thomas, E., & Gatsos, G. E., & Tran, A. (2024, June), Working Towards GenAI Literacy: Assessing First-Year Engineering Students’ Attitudes towards, Trust in, and Ethical Opinions of ChatGPT link
Two more underway!

Software

Cybersecurity

Tools: NMAP, Wiresehark, Burpsuite, hashcat, ghidra, Autopsy, Wireguard
Experiences: CTF’s, Endpoint hardening, Blue team course final, Documnetation of codes and procedures
OS: Windows, Ubuntu, Raspbian, Archlinux, EdgeOS/Vyos

Data

Python Libraries: Pytorch, Sci-kit learn, matplotlib, pandas
Applications: Predictive modeling, NLP for text search, OCR for PDF’s

Other

Game development: Godot, Unity, Unity Netcode + Relay for multiplayer
Web development: Django, Hugo (this), Flask
Other languages: C, C++, C#, Javascript, Micrpython, SQL (Postgres, T-SQL, MySQL)

Projects

Homelab consisting of wireguard tunnel for access, Edgerouter subnet (DNS + DHCP), routing, and firewall management, with Proxmox VM’s + LXC/Containers for software.
Personal website/blog to host writeups and resume (where you are now).
Mobile ESP32 webserver with captive portal.
Raspberry Pi camera webserver and garage door opener behind nginx reverse proxy.
Voice recognition on RPi to control LED’s.
Arduino Nano and MPU-6050 Gyroscrope motion controlled LED’s

Courses

Computer Forenics
Computer Architecture
Newtork / Information / AI Security
Operating Systems

Optimization and Moden Heuristics
Web Mining / Data Analytics / NLP
Capstone: Identifying Tobacco stores for Louisville Metro Health and Wellness Department

Writeups / NCL / PC_complexity

Walkthrough of Fall 2024 NCL Password Cracking (Hard)! Going through basic hashcat to adding rules to match with complexity requirements

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