Shaswata Mitra

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science · The University of Alabama

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at The University of Alabama, advised by Dr. Sudip Mittal. My research asks how we build AI systems that turn evolving threat intelligence into trustworthy, autonomous cyber defense. It runs along three threads: grounding generic threat knowledge in an organization's own context, so intelligence arrives already actionable; establishing the protocols and harness that let agentic systems automate workflows reliably, where one wrong action carries real consequences; and defending the models themselves — because once AI becomes the brain of cyber defense, it also becomes an attack surface.