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hiya!

i'm kat, and this is my new blog!

i work in cybersecurity and co-founded the startup radical semiconductor, which focused on designing next-generation processing-in-memory cryptography accelerators. radical was just acquired (!) which means i finally have time to write a blog.

if you're curious about the stuff i enjoy, here's some other things i've done:

• co-led stanford's inaugural university rover challenge team

• wrote avionics code and developed flight sims for stanford student space initiative's spin-stabilized rockoon prototype (met my cofounders doing this!)

• implemented drug discovery ML visualization tools (now in production!) for schrödinger

• published research demonstrating significant shortcomings in a stanford vision lab visual grounding model

• ran windows/active directory offense for stanford's collegiate penetration testing competition team, scoring 2nd place worldwide (got to dump lsass on the dc--was a super exciting moment)

• wrote an undergrad thesis providing an "operationalized" introduction to gkm varieties

• frequently led the crypto efforts for a ctf team to get several top 10 finishes

• researched crispr protospacer distributions at the national center for biotech information

• worked on developing novel authentication technologies at intel labs for a couple summers

heads up that in the above and news articles about me, my deadname (what's that?) shows up once in a while. i don't particularly care if you see it, but just know i'm the same person.

uh, yeah! working on a fun doom port right now, so hopefully that should be ready for the next blog post :)

-- kat