Experience

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA — expected graduation date: Spring 2027

Advisor: Dr. Jiang Ming
Transferred with advisor from the University of Texas at Arlington (2023)

B.S. (Honors), Computer Science and Engineering, summa cum laude, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

Honors thesis: Screw It: A Computer Vision Approach to Identify Screws and Fasteners; advised by Dr. Christopher McMurrough
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, UTA HEP; advised by Dr. Jaehoon Yu

Teaching

Tulane University, Department of Computer Science

CMPS 3300 – Software Studio, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2026)

CMPS 3510 – Computer Organization, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2026)

CMPS 2301 – Intro. to Computer Systems and Networking Lab (2 sections), Instructor of Record; supervised two undergraduate course assistants (Spring 2026)

CMPS 2300 – Intro. to Computer Systems and Networking, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2026)

CMPS 4770 – Operating Systems, Tutor (Spring 2025)

CMPS 4410/6410 – Information Security, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

CSE 3315 – Theoretical Concepts, Teaching Assistant

CSE 2315 – Discrete Structures, Teaching Assistant

CSE 1325 – Object-Oriented Programming in C++, Teaching Assistant

Awards

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, Tulane University (2023)

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (2022)

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Graduate Fellowship, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Publications

Conference Papers

Do Recovered Names Help? Evaluating Binary Function-Name Recovery for Vulnerability Triage

Cristian Garces, Keith Mitchell, Chenke Luo, Haotian Zhang, Jiang Ming. (2026). "Do Recovered Names Help? Evaluating Binary Function-Name Recovery for Vulnerability Triage." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC). To appear.

Reassessing Function-Name Recovery in Stripped Binaries: Preprocessing, Metrics, and Reproducibility

Cristian Garces, Keith Mitchell, Kun Liu, Chenke Luo, Haotian Zhang, Jiang Ming. (2026). "Reassessing Function-Name Recovery in Stripped Binaries: Preprocessing, Metrics, and Reproducibility." In Proceedings of the 33rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). To appear.

Papers under Review

Outreach

Chapter President, Tau Beta Pi, University of Texas at Arlington (2021 – 2022)

Organizer, undergraduate CS midterm review sessions, Tau Beta Pi, University of Texas at Arlington — four sessions across two semesters, ~40 students each (2021 – 2022)

Teaching Assistant, OurCS@DFW (VIRUS: How to Take Apart a Computer Virus), K-12 outreach workshop on introductory binary analysis, University of Texas at Arlington (Spring 2022)

Judge, FIRST Lego League, FIRST Robotics (2024)

Cristian Garces