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Basics

Name Beatrice Casey
Label PhD Candidate
Email bcasey6@nd.edu
Url https://beatrice-casey.github.io/

Education

Honors

  • 2022.08
    Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Leadership Fellow
    The Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Leadership Fellowship is awarded to the top incoming graduate students in science and engineering.
  • 2022.05
    Presidential Fellow
    The Presidential Fellowship is awarded to 1-2% of applicants to Bucknell University. Selection is based on academic merit, intellectual curiosity, and potential for achievement.
  • 2019.02
    Alpha Lambda Delta
    Alpha Lambda Delta is an honors society for students who have achieved a 3.5 GPA or higher during their first term of higher education.

Work experience

  • 2021.05 - 2021.08
    Software Engineering Intern
    Facebook
    Twelve-week internship. Worked on the Messenger Well-Being Experience Android team. Developed features to protect Messenger and Instagram users from abuse vectors, such as spam, illicit content, harassment and misinformation.
    • Android Development
  • 2021.01 - 2021.01
    App development
    Independent
    After the internship at Facebook, finalized an Android app that was approved and published on Google Play. App is temporarily down for updates.
    • Android Development
  • 2020.06 - 2020.08
    Intern - Facebook University for Engineers
    Facebook
    Eight-week internship, with the first four weeks dedicated to an Android mobile development boot-camp, and the last four weeks dedicated to developing an app designed and built from scratch.
    • Android Development

Research experience

  • 2026.05 - Present
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Work under grant from Center for Quantum Technologies — University of Notre Dame

    Conceived research idea, developed proposal and presented it (the work was chosen for the grant as a result of this effort). Leading technical and experimental work and leading monthly update meetings with industry members. Built upon the previous year's project (TITAN), Q-DART uses a similar approach to develop a real-time data tampering detection technique. One of seven projects selected out of a total of 37 proposals.

  • 2025.05 - 2026.05
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Work under grant from Center for Quantum Technologies — University of Notre Dame

    Conceived research idea, developed proposal and presented it (the work was chosen for the grant as a result of this effort). Leading technical and experimental work and leading monthly update meetings with industry members. Using a hybrid quantum computing and machine learning approach to detect adversarial samples in NLP models. One of nine projects selected out of a total of 38 proposals.

  • 2024.05 - 2025.05
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Work under grant from Center for Quantum Technologies — University of Notre Dame

    Led project on using Quantum Computing to detect object injection vulnerabilities in Java code. Using QUBO and quantum annealing to solve code constraints that classical computers struggle to solve. Developed proposal, presented project progress updates to industry advisors. Mentored two undergraduate research assistants. One of only seven projects that were awarded a grant by the Center for Quantum Technologies.

  • 2023.05 - 2023.11
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Work under grant from the Department of Homeland Security — University of Notre Dame

    Expanding the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) with information on exploits of vulnerabilities. Leading the team on using machine learning to identify certain metadata in an exploit report from different sources, such as ExploitDB and GitHub, that would allow for replication of an exploit. Mentoring four undergraduate students throughout the project. Writing weekly and monthly reports on the status of the project, acting as a liaison between different teams, both within Notre Dame and with external institutions that were involved in the project.

  • 2018.08 - 2022.05
    Researcher
    The Social and the Human in Computing and Cognition Lab — Bucknell University

    Built a robot (Jetson TX2, ZED StereoLabs camera, iRobot Create 2) and wrote a program to teach the robot to learn in a virtual world. Used camera and Jetson to create a mesh of the robot’s surroundings to build a virtual world in MineCraft, where it was taught to interact with the world around it.

  • 2019.05 - 2019.08
    Developer
    Neurobiology Lab — Bucknell University

    Redesigned existing and wrote new code for a neurobiology lab for the PiSpy, a device designed to monitor organisms over intervals specified by the user and be affordable to all researchers.

  • 2017.06 - 2017.08
    Researcher
    — University of Pennsylvania

    Worked on Stereo Vision and wrote code to calculate distributions of pixel intensities across images that underwent a census transform. Researched patterns of the distributions and how it can affect calculating an accurate Hamming distance.

Personal projects

  • Mon Amie: AI Style Journal & Social Platform
    Co-Founder & iOS Engineer

    Launching Fall 2026. App is designed to help users understand their closet, what they own and whether they use it, and helps friends and followers shop outfit items in a familiar social interface. Built full iOS app in SwiftUI and Supabase with Anthropic Vision API integration.

  • ShelfPrep: AI-Powered Medical Exam Study Tool
    Developer

    Launching Winter 2027. Designed and built a React web app for medical board exam preparation using the Anthropic API for adaptive question generation and explanations. Scoped and prototyped independently; identified as a viable product with clear user demand from medical residents.

Leadership and service

  • 2022.08 - Present

    University of Notre Dame

    Mentor
    Computer Science Department
    Mentoring multiple undergraduate students across multiple projects (fourteen students across eight projects). Leading and organizing meetings on project updates, providing guidance and support while keeping project goals on track.
    • Mentor
  • 2021.08 - 2022.05

    Bucknell University

    Mentor
    The Mentor Collective
    Served as a mentor for Freshmen, providing support and guidance in the adjustment to college.
    • Mentor
  • 2021.05 - 2022.05

    Bucknell University

    President
    Alpha Phi Omega
    Organized community service events in the local community, including dog walking and care baskets for the local hopsital.
    • President
    • Community Service
  • 2021.05 - 2022.05

    Bucknell University

    President
    ACM-W
    Organized events in conjunction with ACM, including talks from industry professionals, socials with professors, and more.
    • President
  • 2019.08 - 2020.05

    Bucknell University

    Junior Fellow
    Residential Colleges
    Academic mentor for freshmen. Lived in the same hall as them and provided guidance and support during their transitional year.
    • Mentor
  • 2019.08 - 2019.12

    Bucknell University

    Teaching Assistant
    Computer Science Department
    Assisted in grading, held office hours, and ran labs for data structures and algorithms.
    • Teaching Assistant
    • Mentor

Publications

Peer reviews

  • 2026.06
    Large Language Models and Secure Code Generation
    Manuscript Review — Li, H.
    Wiley-IEEE Press
  • 2025.06
    Large Language Models and Secure Code Generation
    Proposal Review — Li, H.
    Wiley-IEEE Press

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
Java
C
ML & Security
PyTorch
Serialization
Adversarial ML
Static analysis
Threat modeling
Quantum
Qiskit
D-Wave Ocean SDK
Hybrid quantum-classical systems
Research
Empirical methods
Grant writing and management
Technical writing
Project Management
Stakeholder communication
Team leadership
Meeting deadlines

Languages

English
Native speaker
French
Proficient

Interests

Robotics
Neuroscience
French
Ukrainian Culture
Tennis
Golf