Experience

  1. AI Security Researcher

    April 2026 – Present
    Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) · Cambridge, UK
    Working on AI Security Research and Vulnerability Response, with a focus on Agentic Security.
  2. Doctoral Assistant

    September 2021 – September 2026
    École 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).
  3. Research Intern

    June 2025 – August 2025
    Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
    Designed deterministic security guardrails for autonomous AI agents.
  4. Visiting Doctoral Researcher

    October 2024 – March 2025
    MIT Media Lab
    Designed and investigated infrastructure for autonomous collaborative agentic AI.
  5. Associate Developer Intern

    April 2020 – May 2020
    D. 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.

  6. Research Assistant (HiWi)

    November 2019 – February 2020
    Implemented 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.

  7. Research Assistant (HiWi)

    November 2019 – February 2020
    Formulated 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

  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science

    September 2021 – September 2026
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Worked on making decentralized AI systems practical, efficient, and reliable.
  2. Visiting Ph.D. in Computer Science

    October 2024 – March 2025
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Designed and investigated infrastructure for autonomous collaborative agentic AI.
  3. B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering

    August 2017 – July 2021
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi
    GPA: 9.38/10.0
  4. Exchange Student in Computer Science

    October 2019 – February 2020
    RWTH Aachen University
    GPA: 1.0/1.0

Awards & Honors

  • Top ReviewerDecember 2024
    NeurIPS 2024
    Top reviewer recognition for outstanding academic service to NeurIPS 2024 as a reviewer.
  • EPFL
    Doc.Mobility Award to support research visit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • EPFL
    Teaching Assistant Award 2023 for exceptional contribution to teaching excellence at EPFL.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    President of India Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance among the overall Graduating Batch of B.Tech 2021.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    Institute Silver Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance among the students of Computer Science and Engineering of the Graduating Batch of B.Tech 2021.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    Outstanding Academic Performance for the year 2018-2019.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    Outstanding Academic Performance for the year 2017-2018.

Academic Service