I am a graduate student in the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Bimal Viswanath. As a Generative AI enthusiast, my research focuses on security and generative AI. I am honored to have received the Pratt Fellowship from the CS department.
My expertise lies in conversational AI systems, particularly chatbots. I am currently investigating and mitigating toxicity in chatbots and working on model customization pipelines. My research explores attacks and defenses using state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs). Additionally, I have experience in the Computer Vision (CV) domain, working on deepfakes, GANs, and diffusion models. Beyond my research, I have 4.5 years of consulting experience, during which I worked on several large-scale projects with US-based clients. At Deloitte Consulting, I specialized as an Oracle Payroll Implementation Specialist. I completed my Bachelor's in Information Technology in 2016 from VNR VJIET, Hyderabad (affiliated with JNTU), where I gained research experience in Temporal Data Mining and Network Security.
Ph.D. in computer Science (M.S. along the way)
Aug 2021 - Present
CGPA: 3.75 *
Graduate courses: Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Hot Topics in Security and AI, Theory of Algorithms, Advanced Machine Learning, Security risks of Generative AI, Defenses Against ML Powered Adversaries
Bachelors in Information Technology
Sep 2012 - May 2016
CGPA: 8.51/10.0 "Gold Medal for best outgoing student from the Department of I.T."Senior Consultant
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Certified Oracle HCM Cloud transformation consultant with 4.5 years of demonstrated techno-functional expertise specialized in capturing business use cases, understanding requirements, and performing fit-gap analysis to design scalable 50+ Technical RICEF objects and business process solutions.
Strategized and executed Payroll Parallel/Reconciliation testing cycles for 5 successful client implementations to uncover system implementation defects, understand Financial and business process impacts of Go-live and Post Production, and recommend mitigation strategies.
Consultant
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
Payroll Reconciliation: Led planning and execution of Payroll Compare cycles for multiple clients to perform trend analysis of \$MM employee payrolls to test data integrity and understand Go-Live and Post-Production impacts of Payroll, Benefits, Time(TL), Absence, and Compensation systems using SQL and Excel analytics.
Developed and streamlined Payroll Compare Analysis and Executive Reporting Tool which extracts and uses HR and Payroll run data between Legacy and simulated Test systems to produce Payroll Compare reports and Executive Dashboards to extensively perform Payroll data analysis.
Payroll RICEF: Supported Payroll BR100 configurations, Coordinated and executed SIT and UAT testing cycles.
Business Analyst
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Technical Developer: Worked as a Technical team member implementing key out-of-box integrations using HCM Extracts to Kronos and Benefits systems, BI Publisher Reports using eText and RTF templates and developed Payroll Fast Formulas.
Assistant System Engineer - Trainee
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Trained in E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence EE and Oracle Data Integrator tools.