about

Hi! My name Dung Nguyen. Welcome to my page.

At the moment, I am a graduate at UMass Amherst, pursuing Master of Science in Computer Science. I study Computer Systems, Security, and Compiler.

During secondary school, I worked on my very first compiler/interpreter: vmath. Written in Free Pascal, it can read commands, parse expression, and compute floating-point arithmetics. it also has graphing capabilities as well as i18n support. My interests in Computer Systems and Compiler started ever since.

At UMass Amherst, I heaviliy study Computer System and Security. My favorite classes are CompSci 335-535-635 series (Computer Architecture) by Professor Charles Weems, and CompSci 390R (Reverse Engineering) by Steven Rossi and Gilbert Hoermann. Those have made my desire to reverse and study various Instruction Set Architectures strong.

In my free time, I play CTF for team SavedByTheShell in the reversing, pwn, and forensics categories. I was also part of the team organizing UMassCTF 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Here in the domain of my personal blog, you may find contents related to CTF, human & programming languages, and some of my side interests. If you have any questions, email me, and I would be more than happy to answer.

In case you wonder how to pronounce my first name, you can try Jung as in Carl Jung. If you are a linguistic, here is the IPA: [zʊwŋ͡m˦ˀ˥]

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