NU Splash Biography

Brief Biographical Sketch:

My academic focus is on cognitive neuroscience, specifically understanding the neural correlates of consciousness. I work with a neuroimaging group at the Feinberg School of Medicine studying the cortical mechanisms of chronic pain, and am enrolled in the Integrated Sciences Program in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

For the past four years now I've also made a hobby out of studying computer security, beginning with wireless security and penetration but have since pursued a more generalized approach to computer security studying techniques used in everything from network penetration to privilege escalation. I am one of the founding members of Northwestern's undergraduate computer security group which has represented the university in a yearly international CTF competition since its inception in 2007. I hope to share some of my knowledge acquired through these experiences in our Computer Security 101 course which will be co-taught by a two other students who have accompanied me throughout this process.

In addition, I also have developed a background in contemporary philosophy on which I will draw for the "Postmodernity and Capitalism" course. This background is derived from readings of the works of Frederic Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Guiles Deleuze, Frederic Jameson, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida, as well as the work of Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Jurgen Habermas.

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