Curriculum Vitae

“The ideal citizen is a scholar-athlete: the man of thought and the man of action.”

Education and experience, with the complete curriculum vitae available as a PDF.

Education

Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP), Paderborn University, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 2019-2025. Grade: magna cum laude. Topic: Advanced Machine Learning Methods for Information Leakage Detection in Cryptographic Systems.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eyke Hüllermeier.
Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Eyke Hüllermeier and Prof. Dr. Juraj Somorovsky.

Paderborn University, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 2015-2018. Grade: 1.2.

Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), formerly Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi University, New Delhi, India, 2008-2012. Grade: 67.27% (GPA: 7.477; German Scale: 2.2).

Feb. 2025 - Oct. 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Bochum, Germany

Postdoc advisor: Prof. Dr. Ivan Habernal.

Investigating LLM privacy and security, focusing on prompt injection, membership inference, model inversion/reconstruction attacks, including privacy-preserving fine-tuning methods.
Developed and benchmarked prompt injection pipelines for open-source LLMs.
Delivered invited lectures on adversarial attacks on LLMs and mitigation strategies.
Member of the Research Center for Trustworthy Data Science and Security (RC Trust).

Feb. 2019 - Jan. 2025

Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Paderborn, Germany

Developed machine-learning and information-theoretic methods to quantify information leakage in cryptographic implementations.
Applied AutoML (HPO, NAS) to automate attack generation and vulnerability discovery in AES-based systems.
Performed ML-assisted analysis of TLS implementations and cryptographic protocols.
Coordinated with academic and industry partners and produced technical reports and documentation.

Jan. 2016 - Nov. 2018

Student Research Assistant, Paderborn, Germany

Researched choice theory and preference learning for recommender systems.
Developed context-sensitive neural ranking models for preference learning.
Collected tablet purchase preferences through a self-developed Android application.

Nov. 2014 - Feb. 2015

Research Associate, Patiala, India

Designed a Raspberry Pi-based autonomous car prototype with road detection.
Developed a WiFi-controlled Android application for remote navigation.
Published research on autonomous vehicle system design in the International Journal of Computer Applications.

Jun. 2012 - Oct. 2014

Software Engineer, Noida, India

Designed and implemented Android OS framework features for Samsung smartphones.
Developed and customized Android apps and TouchWiz Home components, including My Magazine for Galaxy Note 3 and Easy Launcher for Galaxy S4.
Conducted feasibility studies, proposed product enhancements, coordinated with Samsung HQ and European test teams, and mentored interns.
Samsung Research Institute-Noida (SRI-Noida), Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. - part of Samsung Research.

Aug. 2015 - Dec. 2015

Student Employee, Paderborn, Germany

Built a Vaadin-based web application for statistical evaluation of ATM fleet performance.
Implemented tools in Java for analysis and diagnostics of ATM issues.