Featured App
Publications
    Y. N. Silva, C. Rich, J. Chon. L. M. Tsosie. BullyBlocker: An App to Identify Cyberbullying in Facebook*. The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). San Francisco, California, USA, 2016. (Submitted)
    J. Chon, R. Raymond, H. Wang, F. Wang. Modeling Flu Trends with Real-Time Geo- tagged Twitter Data Streams. Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) – 10th International. Qufu, China, 2015.
    Y. N. Silva, J. Chon. DBSnap: Learning Database Queries by Snapping Blocks. The 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 2015.
    Y. N. Silva, J. Chon. Querying Databases by Snapping Blocks. The 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Seoul, Korea, 2015.
    Y. N. Silva, S. S. Pearson, J. Chon, R. Roberts. Similarity Joins: Their Implementation and Interactions with Other Database Operators. The 6th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP), Coruna, Spain, 2013.
Industry Experience
Sr. Software Developer GRVTY, Inc. (October 2015 - present)
An all encompassing role driving the technology behind GRVTY. Technology attempting to make the password obsolete. Key milestones:
  • Architected, designed, implemented, and successfully worked with the client’s development team to integrate, test, external security audit, and deployment of GRVTY’s OTP Based Password Reset System. The deployed system consists of a Spring MVC backend and iOS app with an embedded GRVTY Client. (Android version is in progress)
  • Released alpha version of GRVTY’s secure password free authentication solution with time-sensitive, multi-layered, out- of-band asymmetric cryptographic security. The alpha version consists of a Google App Engine backend and iOS app available through TestFlight.
  • Point of contact for clients on any technical questions regarding GRVTY’s technology.
  • Currently wrapping up documentation for the release version of GRVTY’s password free solution. Which includes architecture, design, and communication protocols.
Jr. Software Developer GRVTY, Inc. (April 2015 - October 2015)
A dynamic and expanding role attacking the plague that is the password on multiple fronts. Key milestones:
  • Implemented mock demo of iOS app showcasing the integration of GRVTY’s OTP Based Password Reset System into client’s app
  • Created RFC 6238 compliant Java and iOS SDKs and prototyped a fully working password reset system (server backend, iOS client app, RESTful APIs)
  • Architected, designed, and implemented a proof-of-concept system (server & client) for password free web authentication.
  • Lead security researcher covering: best coding practices and design patterns, network security, system security, attack vectors, iOS security architecture, cryptography, Java security, protocols, etc.
Undergraduate Research Projects
Dynamic Modeling
BullyBlocker
Multi-Predicate SimJoin
DBSnap