luke farchione_

phd student · security researcher · bug bounty hunter

i'm a cybersecurity PhD student at UCCS in the Xu Lab, specializing in large language models in cybersecurity. when i'm not training models, i'm breaking things.

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research

  • CASSANDRA — new state-of-the-art model for CTI NLP and automated TTP extraction. in progress
  • Aegis — cybersecurity visualization tool with an 18-attribute competency framework. in progress
  • CVE-LLM — real-time vulnerability querying using NIST NVD, MITRE, and Exploit-DB with vector retrieval
  • Bili — open-source framework for evaluating LLMs across cybersecurity domains. NSF funded

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