Security+ certified cybersecurity engineer focused on practical defense.

Working with Prof. Shivanjali Khare on an in depth, literature based project that compares how GPU security has evolved across major vendors like NVIDIA and AMD.

• Review academic research, public vulnerability disclosures, and vendor documentation to understand real world GPU attacks, vulnerabilities, and security guardrails.
• Build comparative tables that connect hardware features, firmware protections, and software controls with practical attack scenarios and mitigations.
• Use Python, spreadsheets, and reference managers to systematically track sources, extract key technical details, and avoid duplicate or biased data.
• Regularly summarize interim insights for my advisor and support a research paper that highlights trends, gaps, and future directions in GPU security for academic and industry readers.

Combined technical work with leadership and service roles that strengthened my communication, documentation, and community building skills.

• Served as Vice President of Public Relations for the Graduate Student Council, leading creative marketing, branding, social media, and event documentation for graduate students.
• Worked as a Campus Connector and Orientation Support staff with the Office of Graduate and International Student Life, helping incoming students with onboarding, campus tours, and resource navigation.
• Supported the Office of Graduate Admissions as a Graduate Assistant, securing time sensitive application workflows in Slate, verifying academic records, and applying access control and data integrity best practices.
• Led community outreach for the Indian Student Council and volunteered as an event photographer, supporting large cultural events such as Diwali and helping create a welcoming campus experience.

Worked on an end to end EV monitoring stack that combined embedded hardware, web development, cloud services, and security controls for real time power system monitoring.

• Designed a custom power metering and fault detection circuit around an ESP32 using CAN to track voltage, current, temperature, and fault states.
• Built and secured a Flask based dashboard and API for live EV telemetry using input validation, authentication checks, and safe session handling so it could be used as an internal engineering tool.
• Implemented an LSTM based battery health model and exposed it via a secure Flask API with basic anomaly checks and alerts for remote monitoring.
• Hardened an MQTT and AWS pipeline with TLS, certificate based device identity, and least privilege IAM roles for topics, storage, and APIs so live and historical data could be accessed without exposing raw endpoints.
• Acted as security owner using Nmap, OpenSSL, Burp Suite, and Snort to review services, test for common web vulnerabilities, and define simple runbooks for login failures, unusual IP ranges, and traffic spikes.

Undergraduate research role focused on applying machine learning and blockchain to cyber physical power systems and secure energy trading, resulting in three IEEE indexed publications at the 2022 Global Energy Conference (GEC) in Batman, Turkey.

• Co-designed and implemented a machine learning based intrusion detection system for a cyber physical power system using decision trees to detect multiple cyber attack types, evaluated with accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.
• Developed a transformer oil temperature monitoring model from load and operating data, benchmarking kNN, random forest, SVM, and logistic regression and showing kNN as the best classifier for low vs high oil temperature.
• Contributed to the design and simulation of a PBFT style blockchain framework to secure Vehicle to Grid (V2G) energy trading, focusing on transaction integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
• Owned end to end research workflows including literature review, model and system design, dataset preparation, coding and simulation, experiment analysis, and writing camera ready manuscripts accepted and published on IEEE Xplore under author profile “A. Vedant.”

Graduate program focused on offensive security, blue team operations, network engineering, and secure systems, with a strong emphasis on labs, projects, and community involvement.

• Coursework across ethical hacking, cryptography and data security, digital forensics, incident response, Unix and Linux administration, enterprise network design, security architecture, and scripting for automation.
• Built and maintained homelabs with Pi hole, Unbound, WireGuard, pfSense, Security Onion, Wazuh, phishing simulation, Active Directory style labs, and Python based automation for log parsing, data collection, and attack simulation.
• Graduate Research Assistant working with Prof. Shivanjali Khare on a literature driven study of GPU security across vendors like NVIDIA and AMD, connecting academic papers, vendor documentation, and real world vulnerabilities into a structured security view.
• Held multiple leadership and service roles including Vice President of Public Relations for the Graduate Student Council, Campus Connector, and community outreach work with the Indian Student Council, strengthening communication and technical storytelling skills.
• Recognized with the Distinguished Service Award from the Office of Graduate & International Student Life for sustained contributions to the graduate student community.

Electrical engineering degree that combined power systems, embedded systems, IoT, and software, and laid the foundation for later work in cyber physical and cybersecurity domains.

• Coursework in power systems, automation and control, cyberlaw, computer programming, databases, operating systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and energy systems, giving a strong technical base across both hardware and software.
• Worked as an undergraduate researcher on cyber physical power systems and secure energy systems, leading to three IEEE indexed conference papers on intrusion detection, transformer monitoring, and a PBFT blockchain for secure vehicle to grid energy trading.
• Led and contributed to multiple applied projects, including IoT and automation builds and ML based energy and recommendation systems that connected theory with practical implementations.
• Awarded first place in the Research Excellence (Undergraduate Student Regional) category at the IEI NMLC FCRIT Excellence Awards 2023, and first place at the Electrical Symposium 2023 for research and project work.
• Active member of IEEE and the Electrical Engineering Students Association, often helping with technical events, photography, and documentation, and building early experience in presenting technical work to mixed audiences.