1. Zexin Wan
1906 River View Road, Troy, New York 12183
zexin.wan@gmail.com 518-380-4817
Education:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY Expected: May 2016
Master of Science in Computer Science GPA: 4.0/4.0
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science GPA: 3.24/4.0
Relevant Courses: Parallel Programming, Network Programming, Machine learning, Database System, Intro to Artificial
Intelligence, Crypt & Network Security, and Graph Theory.
Project Experience:
Cryptocurrency Maintenance and Malleability spring 2015
• Researched and performed an attack on a cryptocurrency system (an easy version of bit coin but with a center authority in
the system). Used the meet in middle attack to obtain other groups’ signatures for implementing fake coins to fool the CA.
Placed first in class.
• Skills/programming languages: C++ with crypto++, bitcoin technology, hard core bit, Ideal Lattices.
Space Colonization and Galaxy Research spring 2015
• Demonstrated and innovated a Salsa program (A language invented by Professor C. Varela) to analyze space colonization
problems using three-dimensional data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In order to achieve max efficiency, an actor-oriented
program was built to support multi-threads computing within single machine and distributed tasks to groups of computers
over Internet.
• Skills/programming languages: Java, Salsa, distributed system, cloud computation, concurrent programming.
Secured Online Banking System fall 2014
• Designed and implemented a secured online banking system that supports up to 32 ATMs which prevents users from
plain text attack, man in middle attack, cipher text attack and etc. Survived all opponents’ attempts of attack. Placed first in
class.
• Skills/programming languages: C++, padding, RSA public key encryption, Diffie Hellman exchange.
Open Source Card Game Framework spring 2014
• Developed and demonstrated an Open Source card game framework that help people to design and customize their own
version of Yu-Gi-Oh or similar style of trading card games. Helped on project management for the purpose of assessing the
needs of end users and breaking complex problems into addressable parts.
• Skills/programming languages: Java, p2p connection, MySQL, Java graphic GUI.
Parallel Programming and Scalability Analysis fall 2013
• Prototyped and documented a parallel string matching program that could run on IBM Blue-Gene Q server and performed
100 times better than a regular string matching program.
•Skills/programming languages: C, Open MPI, Pthread, scaling multi-threads program.
Online Chat Room fall 2013
• Designed and implemented a web built-in chat room server & client based on TCP that supported at most 64 people for
group or individual texting & picture sending.
• Skills/programming languages: C, JavaScript with jQuery library, CSS, HTML5.
Skills:
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript and relevant libraries, HTML5, CSS and Delphi.
• Platform: Working knowledge of environments including Windows and Linux.
• Database Practical exposure to MySQL.
• Software: Functional knowledge of Eclipse, Visual Studio, VMware and LaTex. Familiarity with Git and Photoshop.
Leadership and Awards
(RCOS) Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software, group leader January 2014-Present
RPISEC (Cyber Security Group), Member January 2015-Present
• Dean’s List of Distinguished Students January 2013-Present
• AMC 12B (American Mathematics Competition) first place in Maine. May 2011