Nguyễn Đình Cường

Nguyen Dinh Cuong - a Master’s student at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), who spends way too much time breaking things that aren’t mine (legally, of course) in the name of science. He is currently a research apprentice at SEFCOM, which is basically where people like him gather to make computers cry. He focuses on kernel exploitation, binary exploitation, and reverse engineering. When he is not doing research, he competes in hacking competitions called ctfs. He is part of Shellphish, one of the most legendary ctf teams out there. Back in undergrad, he started the VinUni Hacking Club, where he now serve as an advisor, training the next generation of talented hackers. His go-to challenges are usually pwn and rev, but when they’re too hard, He’ll pretend he like web or osint just to feel productive. he competes under the handle sashaNull. - Past Projects + Pwnnsylvania: UPenn’s innovative cybersecurity education platform, based on ASU’s pwn.college. It offers hands-on, challenge-based learning in exploit development, reverse engineering, cryptography and web security. + PennCloud: A scalable distributed system offering fault-tolerant storage, webmail, file management, user authentication, and an admin console for system monitoring and control. + VinUni Hacking Club CTF 2023: The official archive of challenges from VHC CTF 2023, organized by the VinUni Hacking Club. - Honors and Awards + Blue Belt on pwn.college, 2024 + 2nd Place in CSAW CTF Qualification Round, USA, 2024 + 6th Place in corCTF, USA, 2024 + 4th Prize in 2024 ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security, Vietnam, 2024 + 4th Place in Digital Overdose Autumn CTF, USA, 2021 + 3rd Prize in The ACM-ICPC Northern Provincial Programming Contest, Vietnam, 2021 + Vingroup Science and Technology Scholarship, 2023 - Teaching + Spring 2025 : Cybersecurity (COMP4030) & Cryptography (COMP4050), VinUni + Fall 2024 : Computer and Network Security (CIS 5510), UPenn