Corban Villa is interested in Cybersecurity, Mathematics and AI. He currently works in the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Cybersecurity with Professor Christina Pöpper and Professor Michail Maniatakos applications and attends the New York University campus in Abu Dhabi to study Computer Science, specializing in Cybersecurity.

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• GitHub Copilot Leaks: Conducted experiments to evaluate privacy implications of GitHub Copilot and other code generation models.
• Saintcon Container Village: Saintcon 2020 Docker Security red-team and blue-team challenges.
• NYUAD Cyberwarfare: School project analyzing VOIP services on U.S. Military and DoD subnets with Shodan.

• BLE Tools: scripts, tools, and Docker for reverse-engineering BLE devices.
• Bluetooth Detection: scripts, tools for analyzing and logging nearby Bluetooth devices.
• DEF CON 25 Presentation: Arm Mounted Weaponized Platform and Anime Viewer.
• SAINTCON 2018 Presentation: From basics to vulnerabilities.

• AlHosLetMeIn: School project leveraging the Microsoft AR Hololens to identify faces, check a database whether they are vaccinated, then display a green or red rectangle around them.
• miles-bot: School project slack-bot to identify likely face matches for faster yearbook indexing and getting additional photos of students.
• Tutorial – Facial Recognition with Python (Cosine Similarity): SheTech presentation about how the mathematics of Facial Recognition works (Cosine Similarity) and how to implement it in Python.

• The Gazelle Next Leading a team through a rewrite (in-progress) of The Gazelle to update entire stack:
  • Node 9 => Node 18
  • CDN Images
  • On-demand webp Images
  • Vanilla React => NextJS 13
  • Migrate custom backend => Directus

• Solidity CBOR: CBOR (JSON-like binary) decoding library for Solidity. Allows you to calculate proofs on self-describing data, then parse it and use it for something.
• MerkleDB: Hackathon project to bring Web2 data into Web3 using Merkle Trees for verification and compression.
• Web3-Bot: Twitter bot to watch for shoutouts and reward users who share a project on Twitter.

• Should AI Reflect Us, Or Should We Reflect AI?
• Can Academia Keep Up With ChatGPT?
• Drowning At NYUAD: Finding Space In A Ceaseless Work Culture
• Web3.0 Internet Society
• The Banning of Maus
• Beyond the Hype: The Metaverse

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