Thanh Vu is a final-year Computer Science student majoring in Software Engineering at Edith Cowan University with a professional background in clinical healthcare and a strong focus on smart contract security and decentralized systems. After pivoting from the health sector, she has applied her analytical and problem-solving skills to blockchain development, secure coding, and vulnerability analysis.
Her recent work includes developing a decentralized stablecoin protocol modeled after MakerDAO, building and testing ERC20 tokens, NFTs, and Chainlink-integrated smart contracts using Solidity and Foundry. She is currently completing a specialized course in smart contract security auditing, gaining hands-on experience in fuzz testing, invariants testing, upgradeable contracts, and secure audit workflows using tools such as Slither, Mythril, and Cyfrin Aderyn.
In addition to her blockchain work, Thanh has explored the intersection of machine learning and healthcare through a project that implemented a U-Net convolutional neural network for retinal image segmentation to aid in diabetes detection.
She brings a strong interest in secure development practices and a practical perspective on the evolving threats facing blockchain ecosystems. At CyberCon, she aims to share actionable insights on how developers and auditors can work together to build safer, more resilient smart contract systems.