Johnny So

PhD Student

Stony Brook University

Biography

I am a second-year Computer Science PhD student at Stony Brook University, advised by Professor Nick Nikiforakis.

Interests

Web Security
Distributed Systems
Network Security
Algorithms

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2020 - Present
Stony Brook University
BSc in Computer Science and Applied Math and Statistics (Summa Cum Laude), 2016 - 2020
Stony Brook University

Experience

Research Project Assistant

PragSec Lab, Stony Brook University

Aug 2020 – Present Stony Brook, New York

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 Seattle, Washington

Created an intent recommendation service for third-party Alexa skills using short utterance text data

Software Engineer Intern

Softheon

Jun 2018 – Dec 2018 Stony Brook, New York

Developed the backing RESTful API for a prototype of an online health exchange platform with interns
Established a preprocessing library that can be used to build machine learning models

Teaching

CSE 331: Computer Security Fundamentals

Teaching Assistant Aug 2020 – May 2021

CSE 214: Data Structures

Teaching Assistant Aug 2017 – Aug 2018

Publications

Domains Do Change Their Spots: Quantifying Potential Abuse of Residual Trust (to appear)

When domains expire and are released to the public, adversaries can re-register them with the hope of exploiting residual trust from …

Johnny So, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Michael Ferdman, Nick Nikiforakis

Click This, Not That: Extending Web Authentication with Deception

With phishing attacks, password breaches, and brute-force login attacks presenting constant threats, it is clear that passwords alone …

Timothy Barron, Johnny So, Nick Nikiforakis