Eric Brigham

>>> Experience <<<

Automation Engineer, GlobalFoundries

• Developed widely used AWS-based tooling to extract, normalize, and visualize real-time dispatching data and disruptions in wafer production.
• Architected production trace models and implemented AWS lambda functions to enable downstream audits.
• Conducted original research to abstract low-level dispatch logs into generalized waiting scenarios, enabling more informed and efficient dispatching decisions.

Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota

• Served as head teaching assistant for a number of courses to include Computer Security, Discrete Mathematics, and many finance courses.
• Planned, designed, and delivered weekly discussion sections.

Research Assistant, University of Minnesota, Maryland

• Developed novel traffic anaylsis methods to link groups of communicating entities through metadata alone.
• Performed novel work to extend the "selfish miner problem" from a single deviant to multiple non-colluding deviants.

Assistant Language Teacher, Saga Prefectural Board of Education

• Worked as a public school teacher, teaching English to students of various levels in Saga, Japan.
• Created daily original lesson plans, delivered lecture, and maintained order in classrooms of 40 students.
• Prepared students for university entrance exams and English speech competitions.

>>> Education <<<

University of Minnesota

• Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science Present
• M.S. Computer Science 2024

Waseda University, Tokyo

• Research Student, Fundamental Science and Engineering 2021

New College of Florida

• B.A. Computer Science 2019

>>> Publications/Projects <<<

• No safety in numbers: traffic analysis of sealed-sender groups in Signal

This work describes a novel attack against group conversations in Signal, showing that groups of communicating entities may be linked through conversation metadata alone. The above link is merely a two page version -- the complete is currently in press.

• Competing (Semi-)Selfish Miners in Bitcoin

This work solved an open problem in bitcoin mining attacks, answering the question "what happens when there is more than one selfish miner?"

• A Usage-Based Mechanism for Securing Systems Via Blockchains

This work provides an incentive compatible model for secure applications on blockchain, using the DNS as a motivating example.

• Some other papers I helped write in Japan: here and here

>>> Skills <<<

Languages

Computer

• Python, C++, Solidity, Go, Java, R, \(\LaTeX\), SQL

Natural

• English, Japanese, some Chinese