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a cropped photo of alex pretending to ride a frog statue at a zoo. they have on a black hoodie, a snapback hat, patterened colorful pants, and black sneakers. they have their hand up as if they are a rodeo cowboy.

alex bellon (aka "balex")

interested in doohickeys, gizmos and thingamabobs

I am a fourth year PhD student in the CSE department at UC San Diego, advised by Deian Stefan and Pat Pannuto. I'm primarily interested in the security of high risk systems and embedded devices like medical devices and commercial airplanes. Additionally, I'm interested in anything related to privacy, transparency, open source, and digital rights. My research is supported by a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship and a San Diego Fellowship.

I graduated from UT Austin in 2021 with degrees in computer science and mathematics. I served as president of UT's cybersecurity organization, Information and Systems Society (ISSS), and also captained UT's Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) and Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) teams. I used to serve as the VP of Web/Tech for UT's ACM chapter, where I started multiple different initiatives to make computer science more accessible. I also used to attend a lot of hackathons.