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lynkos@ localhost: ~$ help

This website is still under construction.

-b   background is interactive: click anywhere
-d   drag folders, files, and windows
-l   open Launchpad to view more apps/links
-m   contact me via Mail app below
-n   open Notes app below to see some of my projects
-s   click Play button to see what i am/was listening to
-t   open TextEdit app below for my about me

lynkos@ localhost: ~$ git log

e23h217 - ( HEAD -> main, origin/main )

g43e341 - Update lynkos.dev (1 hour ago) <lynkos>

lynkos@ localhost: ~$ _

about.rtf

I'm Kiran: A quick-learning undergrad with a passion for creating and an interest in STEM research. My areas of focus are Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics. I'm a 4x Software Engineer Intern at Oracle Cloud during Summers 2021 – 2024. I'm currently a Research Assistant at Analytics for Cyber Defense (ACyD) Lab, where I'm investigating novel applications of post-quantum cybersecurity in order to ensure the resilience of Internet of Things (IoT) against quantum hacking.

I've been coding since I was 12, starting off with HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript in order to customize my Tumblr blog at the time. I soon became obsessed with the web design aspect of programming, creating Tumblr themes for others as a theme-maker. However, it wasn't until I took AP Computer Science in 10th grade that I learned my first real programming language: Java. After that, everything fell into place. I joined my high school's computer science club and participated in programming competitions (i.e. competitive programming) along with cybersecurity competitions (i.e. CTFs aka capture the flags). After school I'd come home and practice [competitive] programming problems from UVa Online Judge. I genuinely had no particular reason or incentive for doing so; it was all for the love of the game.

I enjoy traveling, photography (Nikon D5100 DSLR), gaming, listening to music, reading, journaling/writing, doodling, daydreaming, creating, fashion, design, skincare, watching anime, vibing with friends, programming/cybersecurity competitions (e.g. CTFs, hackathons, etc), and memes during my downtime. This blog contains some of my solutions to certain CTF puzzles/problems; it's a relic from the past as I created and contributed to it during my last 2 years of high school. During that time, I also enjoyed spending a lot of time working on statistics problems for math competitions (specifically Mu Alpha Theta, aka math honor society for high school).

On top of all that, I enjoy reading research papers and watching YouTube channels (e.g. Two Minute Papers, 3Blue1Brown, etc). If I had to name a research paper that's currently piqued my interest, it'd have to be Towards Post-Quantum Blockchain: A Review on Blockchain Cryptography Resistant to Quantum Computing Attacks by Tiago M. Fernández-Caramès and Paula Fraga-Lamas.

Here are some of my research interests:

Post-Quantum Cybersecurity	Quantum Computing	Quantum Networking
Machine Learning	Artificial Intelligence	Internet of Things (IoT)
Computational Linguistics	Cognitive Science	Computational Neuroscience
Cybersecurity	Computer Graphics	Cloud Computing
Ubiquitous Computing	Computer Networking	Robotics
Computer Vision	Natural Language Processing	Evolutionary Computing
Game Theory	Theory of Computation	Graph Theory
Cryptography	Algorithms	Cryptology
Data Mining	Distributed Computing	Data Science
Computer Science	Mathematics	Statistics
Discrete Mathematics	Data Structures	Software Development
Neuroscience	Psychology	Neuromorphic Computing
Linguistics	Etymology	Music
World History	Anthropology	Philosophy
Terahertz Communication

Pinned

Using AI and a Low-Cost Camera to Detect Harmful Algae in Natural Water

1/1/24 Designed and developed a system that uses custom AI (i.e. computer vision) and a camera to quickly detect and identify species of harmful algae in real-time (livestream/video); i.e. object detection using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
Q-SECURE: Quantum-Secure Protocol

11/3/23 Implementation of multi-party computation (MPC), a quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithm, with custom client-server software to securely compute the product of N massive matrices
Quantum Search Algorithm

4/5/23 Created n-qubit quantum program searching for m target(s) in an unsorted database
lynkos.github.io

9/21/22 macOS Sequoia-inspired personal website
Intelligent Building Information Modeling (BIM) Virtual Assistant

10/8/20 Web app for BIM models that allows users to search models for specific elements/properties, view and inspect models in 2D and 3D, and query models via virtual assistant (Siri or Alexa)

2024

Slopify

12/29/24 The ideomotor effect of software
ZenKitty

10/17/24 ZenKitty
DNS Lookup

7/2/24 The goal of this project is to practice UDP socket programing and understand binary packet structures by developing a simplified DNS lookup client
Web Status Monitor

6/3/24 This project develops a web status monitor (simplified version of uptimerobot.com) to practice web programming and understand the web related protocols: HTTP and TLS/SSL
Web Scraper

1/11/24 Simple web scraper to download media from websites

2022

Simple Shell

5/16/22 This program is an extension of myshell.c with pipelines + I/O redirection functionality
Simple MPI

5/16/22 This program counts the number of prime numbers between 1 to MAX_CONST inclusive using MPI (parallel programming)
BST

4/29/22 Sorts all words in an input file (or from standard input) and prints the sorted words to an output file (or standard output)

2014

Endians

12/7/14 Program I wrote in high school that converts a given integer to little-endian and/or big-endian
Capture the Flag

11/9/14 Some of my solutions to certain CTF puzzles/problems

January 1, 2024 at 9:00

Using AI and a Low-Cost Camera to Detect Harmful Algae in Natural Water

Website Source Code

Designed and developed a system that uses custom AI (i.e. computer vision) and a camera to quickly detect and identify species of harmful algae in real-time (livestream/video); i.e. object detection using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
Integrated various fine-tuned algae detection models (i.e. custom AI) with (1) ESP32-CAM (low-cost development board with camera, WiFi, and Bluetooth modules) attached to a Nikon microscope's eyepiece via a 3D printed lens attachment, (2) iPhone, and (3) webcam as camera options
Lead and managed team of 3 senior computer science undergrads
Wrote in-depth, beginner-friendly Google Colab tutorial that details the entire process of training, validating, inferencing, exporting, and deploying the custom AI model; tutorial also goes over dataset annotation, preprocessing, and augmentation

April 5, 2023 at 19:44

Quantum Search Algorithm

Source Code

Created n-qubit quantum program searching for m target(s) in an unsorted database
Resulted in quadratic speedup over classical/naïve search algorithms

January 11, 2024 at 19:11

Web Scraper

Source Code

Simple web scraper to download media from websites
Supports .pdf generation and vertical image stacking
Useful for downloading manga, comics, etc.

September 21, 2022 at 16:46

lynkos.github.io

Website Source Code

macOS Sequoia-inspired personal website

December 29, 2024 at 17:27

Slopify

Website Source Code

The ideomotor effect of software

October 17, 2024 at 23:23

ZenKitty

Website Source Code

Human-Computer Interaction project

October 8, 2020 at 15:26

Intelligent Building Information Modeling (BIM) Virtual Assistant

Source Code

Developed front-end of web app for BIM models that allows users to search models for specific elements/properties, view and inspect models in 2D and 3D, and query models via virtual assistant (Siri or Alexa)

July 2, 2024 at 19:53

DNS Lookup

Source Code

The goal of this project is to practice UDP socket programing and understand binary packet structures by developing a simplified DNS lookup client
You must create your own socket
You cannot use any existing DNS library

June 3, 2024 at 18:49

Web Status Monitor

Source Code

This project develops a web status monitor (simplified version of uptimerobot.com) to practice web programming and understand the web related protocols: HTTP and TLS/SSL
Implements HTTP client socket to interact with the web server
Doesn't use any existing HTTP client library
Uses an existing SSL library to help implement the HTTPS client (extra credit)

May 16, 2022 at 18:53

Simple MPI

Source Code

This program counts the number of prime numbers between 1 to MAX_CONST inclusive using MPI (parallel programming)
Each process tests its share of the cases and keeps a running total
Before it finishes, the process prints out its ID number and count of primes that it found
Master process ends after printing the total number of primes between 1 and MAX_CONST inclusive and the total amount of time taken to find all the primes

April 29, 2022 at 11:32

BST

Source Code

Sorts all words in an input file (or from standard input) and prints the sorted words to an output file (or standard output)
Command line arguments: bstsort [-c] [-o output_file_name] [input_file_name]
If -c is present, the program needs to compare the strings in upper case; otherwise, the case stays as read in
If output_file_name is given with the -o option, the program will output the sorted words to the given output file; otherwise, the output shall be the standard output
Similarly, if the input_file_name is given, the program will read from the input file; otherwise, the input will be from the standard input

May 16, 2022 at 18:41

Simple Shell

Source Code

This program is an extension of myshell.c with pipelines + I/O redirection functionality
> Redirect standard output from a command to a file; if the file already exists, it will be erased and overwritten without warning
>> Append standard output from a command to a file if the file exists, else create a new one
< Redirect standard input from a file to a command
| Pass the standard output of one command to another for further processing

December 7, 2014 at 23:02

Endians

Source Code

Program I wrote in high school that converts a given integer to little-endian and/or big-endian

November 3, 2023 at 15:27

Q-SECURE: Quantum-Secure Protocol

Source Code

Implementation of multi-party computation (MPC), a quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithm, with custom client-server software to securely compute the product of N massive matrices

Split each of N massive matrices into submatrices
Homomorphically encrypt the submatrices and disperse evenly among M Internet of Things (IoT) devices
M IoT devices calculate the product of N homomorphically encrypted submatrices and send the result back upon completion
Received submatrices (i.e. results) are decrypted and concatenated into a single matrix, which is the final result

November 9, 2014 at 23:02

Capture the Flag

Website

Some of my solutions to certain CTF puzzles/problems

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