CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University, 2020 (expected)
• M.S. in Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University, 2015
• B.Sc. in Computer Science & Electronics (Double Major), The University of The West Indies – Mona Campus, 2012

Work experience

• Summer Graduate Research Intern, IBM Research – Almaden, CA [05/2019 to 08/2019]
  • Used LSTM to detect ransomware based on time-series meta-data from user file
  • Started a process to synthesize user file activities to model the specific user file meta-data
• Associate Security Consultant, Cigital – Sterling, VA [02/2016 – 05/2016]
  • Performed manual and automated penetration testing on web applications using Burp Suite
  • Triaged defects and removed false positives during static source code analysis
• SOA Developer Summer Intern, Bank of America Merrill Lynch – Jersey City, NJ [06/2015 – 08/2015]
  • Evaluated the pros and cons for the developing the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using MuleSoft
  • Implemented a reusable Authentication SOA solution using MuleSoft, Web Services and Java
• Junior Software QA Engineer, Transcel Ltd – St. Andrew, Jamaica [03/2013 – 07/2014]
  • Excelled in discovering and reporting software defects in a financial mobile application
  • Performed manual testing on Android, Blackberry and J2ME mobile application versions

Publications

Recommender Systems for Software Requirements Engineering: Current Research & Challenges

I. Williams and X. Yuan, "Recommender Systems for Software Requirements Engineering: Current Research & Challenges," 2019 SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6

Teaching

Supervised Instructor