Phuong Cao
Proposals Review Panelist at Trusted CI
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhuong Cao is a principal investigator and cybersecurity research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she leads cyberinfrastructure security and resiliency research. Based in Champaign, Illinois, she combines rigorous academic work with strategic leadership to harden large-scale scientific computing infrastructure. Since 2023, she has also served as a Trusted CI Fellow, linking NSF cyberinfrastructure security efforts with real-world deployment and governance. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. and Master's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with an international exchange experience at Pohang University of Science and Technology and a bachelor's from Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Early industry stints at Microsoft, IBM Research, and LinkedIn gave her a broad view of security across research, cloud, and data infrastructures. She is known for translating complex security challenges into practical, auditable solutions that scale with high-performance computing environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange, International Exchange at Pohang University of Science and TechnologyBachelor, Bachelor at Hanoi University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (76)
python8
authenticator8
fabric8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
docker-image8
github-oauth8
subnet7
deep-learning7
oauth-client7
data-science7
tensorflow7
network-monitoring7
neural-networks7
database-engine6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pmcao/pmcao.github.io
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:43 pushes in 8 months
pmcao/svauth-python-adapter-example
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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