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Washington Garcia

Education

University of Florida - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

     Expected December 2022
     Advisor: Kevin Butler
     Focus: Security and Privacy of Machine Learning, Generative Modeling

Florida Atlantic University - Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering

     Innovation Leadership Honors Program
     Member of Tau Beta Pi

Skills

     Programming Languages
          Python, Elixir, Java, C++, C, C#, Assembly
     Machine Learning Frameworks
          PyTorch, Tensorflow
     Foreign Language
          Spanish: Business proficiency

Publications & Pre–prints

  1. Washington Garcia, Scott H. Clouse, and Kevin R.B. Butler, 2022. Disentangling Categorization in Multi-agent Emergent Communication. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 22). Seattle, United States, pp. 4523–4540. https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.335

  2. Washington Garcia, Pin-Yu Chen, Somesh Jha, Scott H. Clouse, Kevin R.B. Butler, 2021. Hard-label Manifolds: Unexpected Advantages for Finding On-manifold Adversarial Examples. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03325.

  3. Washington Garcia, Animesh Chhotaray, Joseph I. Choi, Suman K. Adari, Somesh Jha, Kevin R.B. Butler, 2021. Brittle Features of Device Authentication. Eleventh ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 21). Virtual Event. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3422337.3447842

  4. Washington Garcia, Joseph I. Choi, Suman K. Adari, Somesh Jha, and Kevin R. B. Butler, 2018. Explainable Black-Box Attacks Against Model-based Authentication. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00024.

  5. Washington Garcia and Theophilus Benson, 2016. A First Look at Bugs in OpenStack. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking (CAN 16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 67-72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3010079.3010086

Co-authorship

  1. Cassidy Gibson, Vanessa Frost, Katie Platt, Washington Garcia, Luis Vargas, Sara Rampazzi, Vincent Bindschaedler, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin R.B. Butler, 2022. Analyzing the Monetization Ecosystem of Stalkerware. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS 22), pp.105-119.

  2. Hadi Abdullah, Muhammad S. Rahman, Washington Garcia, Logan Blue, Kevin Warren, Anurag S. Yadav, Tom Shrimpton, Patrick Traynor, 2019. Hear “No Evil”, See “Kenansville”: Efficient and Transferable Black-Box Attacks on Speech Recognition and Voice Identification Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.05262.

  3. Hadi Abdullah, Washington Garcia, Christian Peeters, Patrick Traynor, Kevin R. B. Butler, Joseph Wilson, 2019. Practical Hidden Voice Attacks against Speech and Speaker Recognition Systems. In Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 19) Symposium 2019.

  4. Suman K. Adari, Washington Garcia, Kevin R. B. Butler, 2019. Adversarial Video Captioning. In Proceedings of 2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W 19).

  5. Oliver Nina, Washington Garcia, Scott Clouse, and Alper Yilmaz, 2018. MTLE: A Multitask Learning Encoder of Visual Feature Representations for Video and Movie Description. arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07257.

  6. Paul Morris, Marcus McGuire, Washington Garcia, Nicolas Tutuianu, Shawn Martin, and Elan Barenholtz, 2017. Q-Learning in an Autonomous Rover. FAU Undergraduate Research Journal.

Hobbies

     Powerlifting (950lb. Total)
     Cycling (Road & MTB)
     Music (Piano, Saxophone)