David Wu

Education

Privacy-Preserving Shortest Path Computation: David J. Wu, Joe Zimmerman, Jérémy Planul, and John C. Mitchell
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2016
Practical Order-Revealing Encryption with Limited Leakage: Nathan Chenette, Kevin Lewi, Stephen A. Weis, and David J. Wu
Constraining Pseudorandom Functions Privately: Dan Boneh, Kevin Lewi, and David J. Wu
Privately Evaluating Decision Trees and Random Forests: David J. Wu, Tony Feng, Michael Naehrig, and Kristin Lauter
Immunizing Multilinear Maps Against Zeroizing Attacks: Dan Boneh, David J. Wu, and Joe Zimmerman
Private Database Queries using Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption: Dan Boneh, Craig Gentry, Shai Halevi, Frank Wang, and David J. Wu
Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2013
Deep Learning with COTS HPC Systems: Adam Coates, Brody Huval, Tao Wang, David J. Wu, Andrew Y. Ng, and Bryan Catanzaro
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013
End-to-End Text Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks: Tao Wang, David J. Wu, Adam Coates, and Andrew Y. Ng
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012
Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning: Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev Satheesh, Bipin Suresh, Tao Wang, David J. Wu, and Andrew Y. Ng
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Apr, 2013.
Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award, Apr, 2013.
Stanford Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, May, 2012 - present.
Stanford Boothe Prize: Virtual Property or Virtual Service? Honorable Mention, Apr, 2011.
President's Award for Academic Excellence in the Freshman Year, Sep, 2010.

Optimizing Recategorization of Financial Transactions using Collaborative Filtering (US 8538967). David J. Wu, Levon Budagyan, Marko Rukonic. Intuit, 2013.

Teaching Assistant for CS 255: Introduction to Cryptography (Winter, 2014-15)
Teaching Assistant for CS 255: Introduction to Cryptography (Winter, 2013-14)
Instructor, Stanford Splash (2012 - 2013)
- Taught short, two-hour long classes to middle and high school students.
  - Course on Cryptographic Protocols: “The Wizardry Behind Modern Cryptography.”
  - Course on Computer Security: “Defense Against the Dark Arts: A Crash Course in Computer Security.”
Section Leader for CS 106A/B: Programming Methodology/Paradigms (Sep, 2010 - Dec, 2011)
- Led weekly discussion sections, graded student assignments, met one-on-one with students to discuss programming style and paradigms, staffed computer resource center, and graded midterms and finals for CS 106A/B.

Research Intern, Microsoft Research – Redmond (Jun, 2014 - Sep, 2014)
- Worked with Michael Naehrig and Kristin Lauter in the Cryptography Research Group on developing practical protocols for private evaluation of decision trees, random forests, and nearest-neighbor classifiers.
Software Engineering Intern, Coursera (Jan, 2013 - May, 2013)
- Worked on the infrastructure team on improving site monitoring, logging and testing. Also developed improvements to internal deployment tools.
Software Engineering Intern, Facebook (Jun, 2011 - Sep, 2011)
- Worked on Facebook News Feed and Timeline backend systems. Helped improve memory performance of the Facebook News Feed and designed and implemented a system for data recovery and synchronization across distributed databases for Facebook Timeline.
Software Engineering Intern, Intuit (Jun, 2010 - Sep, 2010)
- Worked with the mint.com team on automatic transaction categorization. Designed and built a web-based application that aggregated merchant categorization data, displayed statistical measures of categorization, and streamlined the process of making modifications to categorization parameters.