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General Information

Full Name John Abascal
Date of Birth October 20th, 1998
Languages English, Spanish

Education

Research

  • 2024
    Phantom: General Trigger Attacks on Retrieval Augmented Language Generation
    arXiv
  • 2023
    TMI! Finetuned Models Leak Private Information from their Pretraining Data
    PETS 2024
  • 2022
    SNAP: Efficient Extraction of Private Properties with Poisoning
    IEEE S&P 2023

Work Experience

  • May 2024 - Aug 2024
    Applied Research Intern (Privacy Attacks on LLMs)
    LinkedIn, New York, NY
  • May 2023 - Aug 2023
    Applied Research Intern (Differential Privacy)
    LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, CA
  • May 2021 - Aug 2021
    Software Engineer Intern (iOS)
    Intuit, Mountain View, CA
  • May 2020 - Aug 2020
    Software Engineer Intern (iOS)
    Intuit, Mountain View, CA
  • Aug 2019 - May 2021
    Machine Learning Intern
    NewSci Labs, Tallahassee, FL
  • May 2019 - Aug 2019
    Software Engineer Intern
    Sphero, Boulder, CO

Teaching Experience

Technical Skills

Languages Python, C++, Swift, JavaScript, MATLAB, Latex
Libraries and Tools PyTorch, Opacus, scikit-learn, NumPy, Asyncio, Pandas, Keras, OpenCV, Matplotlib, PIL, Linux, Git, Jira, Jupyter, SQL, GraphQL

Honors, Awards, and Involvement

HSF Scholar 2019, 2020, 2021
President's List Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020
Dean's List Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Honors in the Major Mathematics
President (2020 - 2021) Society of Undergraduate Mathematics Majors (SUMS) at FSU
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship (2017) FAS, Full Tuition

Academic Interests

  • Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Adversarial Machine Learning