OUR TEAM

Vivian Ye

Lead Instructor

Vivian is an incoming freshman at MIT and is currently the Co-President of CCA/PTMS Cyber, where she's coached computer networking and forensics for four years. She is also a CyberClass alumnus herself, having taken the course during her 8th grade summer and citing CyberClass as the initial spark of her interest in cybersecurity. This year, her team placed 9th nationally at the Cyberpatriot semifinals. In addition to computer science, she enjoys tennis and music.

Aiden Shi

Lead Instructor

Aiden is a rising senior at Canyon Crest Academy. He is a member of Les Amateurs, primarily doing web exploitation. His hobbies include designing and developing websites (including this one), playing with obscure programming languages, and spreading his knowledge to others.

Danniell Xu

Instructor

Danniell is an incoming freshman at UCLA. He's been involved with CCA/PTMS Cyber for the past three years, where he has served as the head captain of Linux. He has also placed third in HSCTF, the longest-running high school CTF hacking competition. Danniell's hobbies also include chemistry, and he has really good times in Tetris and Minesweeper.

Ellin Qiao

Instructor

Ellin is a rising senior at Canyon Crest Academy. She has participated in Cyberpatriot since middle school and has achieved impressive results, placing 4th nationally. She is also a winner of the Socal Cyber Cup middle school division, where she secured the 1st position and a prize of $3000. Besides her passion for cybersecurity, Ellin enjoys competitive math, playing the piano, and dancing.

Evan Luo

Instructor

Evan is a incoming freshman at UC Berkeley. He's been competing in CyberPatriot for the past two years, and is also an active CTF participant, and placed 1st in the Socal Cyber Cup last year. He has previously taught at CCA Math Team's Epsilon program, and also is an instructor for the CyberPatriot club. Outside of cybersecurity, Evan enjoys programming, competitive math, and whales.

Jonathan Xue

Instructor

Jonathan is a incoming freshman at UCLA. He's been participating in CCA / PTMS Cyber for two years and taught in CyberClass last year. Jonathan and other instructors have also won 2nd place in AngstromCTF, winning 500 dollars in prizes; besides cybersecurity, he enjoys playing video games, piano, and math.

Owen Kwan

Instructor

Owen is a rising senior at Canyon Crest Academy. As a former student of the camp, CyberClass was his first introduction to computer hacking. He is a member of Les Amateurs, where he has won 2nd in CMU's PicoCTF. In his free time, he loves working with low-level languages and tinkers with operating systems and bootloaders.