Ms. Joan Puteri Zheng is an American-born computer scientist based in San Bernardino County, California. Joan is currently a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University and a Graduate Fellow at Quantative and Computing Lab, Claremont McKenna College. Prior to CGU, she spent over five years as a developer and research engineer in industry, contributing to federally funded research projects in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing at Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT). Joan obtained her B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2019.