CV
General Information
| Full Name | Shae McFadden |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Languages | English |
Education
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2023 - Now PhD Candidate
King's College London, Unitied Kingdom - Currently in Progress
- Thesis on "Applications of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity - Exploitation, Evasion and Strategy".
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2020 - 2023 BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
King's College London, Unitied Kingdom - First Class Honours.
- Dissertation on "Adversarial Machine Learning Evaluation of The MaMaDroid Feature Space".
Experience
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2023 - Now Visiting Collaborator
Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence (AICD) Research Centre, The Alan Turing Institute -
2024 - Now Visiting Researcher
Systems Security Lab (S2Lab), University College London -
2023 - 2023 King's Undergraduate Research Fellow
King's College London - Evaluation of the impact of poisoning on machine learning classifiers for malware detection.
Open Source Projects
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2024 - Now Wendigo
- A deep reinforcement learning approach for DoS query discovery in GraphQL.
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2024 - Now tesseract-ml
- Eliminating experimental bias in malware classification across space and time.
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2024 - Now RPAL
- Evaluating the passive recovery of malware classifiers from data poisoning.
Honors and Awards
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2023 - Layton Research Award
- Alan Fairbourn Memorial Prize
- Associateship of King's College
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2022 - King's Experience Research Award
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2020 - Governor General Academic Medal
Academic Interests
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Artificial Intelligence.
- Deep reinforcement learning applications for Cybersecurity.
- Supervised learning for malware classification.
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Cybersecurity.
- Malware classification
- Vulnerability discovery.
- Adversarial machine learning.
- Autonomous cyber defence.
Fencing
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2022-2024 - Captain of the Men's First Fencing Team, King's College London
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2017-2020 - Canadian National Fencing Team
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2020 - Fencing Grand Prix Montreal
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2019 - U18 Fencing Team Canada
- U18 Fencing World Championships
- U18 Fencing Pan American Championships
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2018 - Commonwealth Fencing Championships