Background

Experience & education

Experience

Fujitsu Research of America

2025 · 2026

Research Intern · San Jose, CA

  • Built auditable multi-agent workflow automation using graph ML — resulted in a patent filing.
  • Designed a context-aware data indexing and retrieval model — resulted in a patent filing.

The University of Alabama

2025 – 2026

Graduate Research Assistant · Tuscaloosa, AL

  • Embedding model capturing semantic relations across heterogeneous sources.
  • Benchmark for domain-alignment, privacy, reasoning and explainability of LLMs.
  • Grounded CTI generation with LLMs and diffusion models to mitigate novel threats.

nSPARC

2024

Research Intern · Starkville, MS

  • Software vulnerability classification using neuro-symbolic AI.
  • Co-relation quantifier mapping entity and relation extraction across heterogeneous reports.

Mississippi State University

2021 – 2025

Graduate Research Assistant · Starkville, MS

  • Polymorphic malware detection through control-flow graphs using ML.
  • Residual vision model for off-road traversability estimation from aerial imagery.
  • Adaptive anomaly quantifier over network data for DDoS mitigation.
  • GNNs to improve knowledge representation for classifiers in cyber operations.

Tata Consultancy Services

2019 – 2021

Software Engineer, Full-stack · Kolkata, India

  • Personalized customer engagement analysis pipeline for assistive marketing.
  • Project interviewer — recruited and onboarded new engineers to the codebase.

Education

The University of Alabama

2025 – Present

Ph.D., Computer Science · GPA 4.0 / 4.0

  • Generative AI, agentic systems, cybersecurity, representation learning.
  • Transferred from Mississippi State with advisor Dr. Sudip Mittal.

Mississippi State University

2021 – 2025

M.S., Computer Science · GPA 4.0 / 4.0

  • AI, NLP, cybersecurity, knowledge graphs.

West Bengal University of Technology

2015 – 2019

B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering · Kolkata, India

Honours

2026

Graduate Council Fellowship

The University of Alabama's competitive doctoral fellowship.

2024

Best Paper Award

17th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2024), for LocalIntel.