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General Information
| Full Name | John Abascal |
| Date of Birth | October 20th, 1998 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
Education
- 2021 - Present
- 2017 - 2021
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
- Honors Thesis
- A Standardized Approach to Studying the Double Descent Phenomenon
- Advisors
- GPA: 3.79
- Honors Thesis
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
- Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Student Researcher (Machine Unlearning)
Google, Cambridge, MA
- 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
- Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
- Aug 2018 - May 2019
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