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Rawan Al-Shaer

Rawan Al-Shaer

Undergraduate Research Assistant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Cybersecurity Engineer Federal Reserve | Carnegie Mellon Alum

  • Education

    • University of North Carolina at Charlotte

      2017 - 2019
      Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science

    • University of North Carolina at Charlotte

      2017 - 2019
      Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics-Statistics

    • Carnegie Mellon University

      2020 - 2022
      Master's degree Computer Engineering

  • Experience

    • University of North Carolina at Charlotte

      Sept 2017 - Aug 2018
      Undergraduate Research Assistant

      Project: Study of Advanced Persistent Threats – I explored novel techniques that can be used by Advanced Persistent Threat attacks and developed effective countermeasures. I collected real-world malware samples and threat intelligence about them from the Internet, and analyzed the artifacts using techniques such as threat modeling and machine learning.

    • Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University

      Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
      CERT Threat Analysis Intern

    • Carnegie Mellon University

      Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
      Graduate Research Assistant

      I was advised by Prof. Peter Steenkiste and part of the Systems, Networking, and Performance (SNAP) Lab. [https://snap.cs.cmu.edu]

    • Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University

      Jun 2020 - May 2022
      CERT Threat Analysis Graduate Intern

      I was mentored by Jonathan (Jono) Spring in the CERT Threat Analysis Directorate on data-driven cyber threat research projects.

    • Federal Reserve System

      Jun 2022 - now
      Cyber Security Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SEC495: Leveraging LLMS: Building & Securing RAG, Contextual RAG, and Agentic RAG

      SANS Institute
      Jul 2025

    • GIAC Certified Forensics Analyst (GCFA)

      GIAC Certifications
      May 2023

    • Generative AI with LLMs

      DeepLearning.AI
      Sept 2024
      View certificate certificate

    • Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Dec 2022

    • Business Applications of Generative AI

      Carnegie Mellon University
      Sept 2024
      View certificate certificate

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Rawan Al-Shaer
      NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program NSF Apr 2020 I was awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship.
    • Awarded to Rawan Al-Shaer
      Summa Cum Laude University of North Carolina Charlotte Dec 2019 I received the graduation award "With great distinction" (top 1% of my class) honor title.
    • Awarded to Rawan Al-Shaer
      RSA Security Scholar RSA Conference Mar 2019 I received the RSA Security Scholar award to attend and present my research at the RSA Conference in 2019.
    • Awarded to Rawan Al-Shaer
      Cisco Security Scholar Cisco Dec 2018 I was awarded the Cisco Security Scholarship to attend and present my research at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys) conference in 2019.
    • Awarded to Rawan Al-Shaer
      CyberCorps SFS NSF Aug 2018 I received the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service by the National Science Foundation for my academic performance and research in Cybersecurity. I received the scholarship for the duration of August 2018-December 2019.
    • Awarded to Rawan Al-Shaer
      Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) Computing Research Association & Applied Computer Security Associates Aug 2018 I was awarded this national scholarship recognizing women in the field of information security for my academic performance and research in data-driven Cybersecurity.

  • Volunteer Experience

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      Issued by Better Future School on Aug 2016
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