Experience
AI Security Researcher
April 2026 – PresentMicrosoft Security Response Center (MSRC) · Cambridge, UKWorking on AI Security Research and Vulnerability Response, with a focus on Agentic Security.Doctoral Assistant
September 2021 – September 2026École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Worked on Decentralized Machine Learning for my Ph.D. at EPFL as part of the Doctoral Program in Computer and Communication Sciences (EDIC).Research Intern
June 2025 – August 2025Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UKDesigned deterministic security guardrails for autonomous AI agents.Visiting Doctoral Researcher
October 2024 – March 2025MIT Media LabDesigned and investigated infrastructure for autonomous collaborative agentic AI.Associate Developer Intern
April 2020 – May 2020D. E. Shaw India Private Limited · Hyderabad, India (Work from Home)Refactored Fixed Data Table 2 Resize and Reorder functionalities into plugins to make the React-JS based library modular, more customizable and maintainable.Received Full-Time Offer for the Member-Technical profile on the basis of excellent performance during the internship.
Research Assistant (HiWi)
November 2019 – February 2020IT Security Group, RWTH Aachen University · Aachen, GermanyImplemented methods to perform gradient-based attack and adversary transfer on character-based Deep Neural Networks for malicious DGA generated domain names by emulating and inverting the non-differentiable embedding layer.Used Iterative adversarial training to improve the robustness of the classifier using adversaries generated from the gradient based attacks.
Research Assistant (HiWi)
November 2019 – February 2020Theory of Hybrid Systems, RWTH Aachen University · Aachen, GermanyFormulated the scheduling of a freight train in the german railway network as a satisfiability problem in propositional logic and implemented the solution using Z3 Solver.Optimized the various steps of the problem formulation to reduce the problem blow-up from quadratic to linear and improved the feasibility of the approach in real-life railway network.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
September 2021 – September 2026École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Worked on making decentralized AI systems practical, efficient, and reliable.Visiting Ph.D. in Computer Science
October 2024 – March 2025Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Designed and investigated infrastructure for autonomous collaborative agentic AI.B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
August 2017 – July 2021Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) MandiGPA: 9.38/10.0Exchange Student in Computer Science
October 2019 – February 2020RWTH Aachen UniversityGPA: 1.0/1.0
Awards & Honors
- Top ReviewerDecember 2024NeurIPS 2024Top reviewer recognition for outstanding academic service to NeurIPS 2024 as a reviewer.
- EPFL Doc.Mobility AwardOctober 2024EPFLDoc.Mobility Award to support research visit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Teaching Assistant AwardDecember 2023EPFLTeaching Assistant Award 2023 for exceptional contribution to teaching excellence at EPFL.
- President of India Gold MedalOctober 2021Indian Institute of Technology MandiPresident of India Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance among the overall Graduating Batch of B.Tech 2021.
- Institute Silver MedalOctober 2021Indian Institute of Technology MandiInstitute Silver Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance among the students of Computer Science and Engineering of the Graduating Batch of B.Tech 2021.
- Foundation Day AwardFebruary 2020Indian Institute of Technology MandiOutstanding Academic Performance for the year 2018-2019.
- Foundation Day AwardFebruary 2019Indian Institute of Technology MandiOutstanding Academic Performance for the year 2017-2018.
Academic Service
- 2026: ICML’26 (Silver Reviewer); NeurIPS’26; AISec’26; TMC; AgenticOS; CODEC-FM;
- 2025: TMLR; NeurIPS’25; CFAgentic@ICML’25;
- 2024: NeurIPS’24 (Top Reviewer);
- Assistant Reviewer: OSDI’24; NETYS’24; SRDS’23;