Chris Cao

Computer Science @ University of Toronto

Experiences

Amazon - Incoming SDE Intern (Summer 2026)
  • Joining Amazon as a Software Engineer Intern in Summer 2026.
Secure Intelligent and Trustworthy Systems Lab - Research Assistant (Summer 2025)
  • Disproved a reported side-channel attack on MIRAGE caches by rerunning the simulation in gem5 with controlled inputs and fixed seeds.
  • Parsed experiment logs into CSV for guessing-entropy analysis and traced the issue to a trace-counting bug and fixed RNG seed using Bash, Python, and C++.
Social, Moral, and Political Psychology Lab - Research Assistant (Summer 2024)
  • Built a Python NLP pipeline to analyze how political leaning influences morality in news coverage.
  • Analyzed 8 million articles across 100+ outlets and scored 10 moral categories at scale.

Community Leadership

UofT Open Source Students - Outreach VP
  • Led redevelopment of the UTOSS website.
UofT Computer Science Student Union - Director of Technology
  • Led redevelopment of ASSU website and calendar.