About

Undergraduate in Computer and Communication Engineering at MIT Manipal. I enjoy low-level coding and understanding how systems work at their core. My work lies at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.

I used to play CTFs for Cryptonite Cryptonite Diamond.

work Experience

jpmc
Software Engineer Program (SEP) Intern
June 2026 – August 2026
JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Corporate Technology (Firmwide Planning & Analysis) · Bengaluru, India
  • Worked as a Data Infrastructure Engineer within Corporate Technology (Firmwide Planning & Analysis).
  • Engineered distributed data pipelines and analytics systems utilizing Apache Spark and AWS.
  • Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and ADK.
cmu
Research Assistant
Aug 2026 – Present
Carnegie Mellon University · Xu Lab
  • Working in Embodied AI under Dr. Xiaolong Wang at Xu Lab.
cryptonite
Head of Research & Development
Apr 2024 – Aug 2026
Cryptonite · MIT Manipal's Official Cybersecurity Team
  • Leading R&D initiatives for one of the best academic CTF teams in Asia
  • Specialize in Digital Forensics, Incident Response (DFIR), and AI Security challenges
  • Developed and deployed challenges for niteCTF 2024 and 2025 — 3rd highest rated Indian CTF globally
  • Mentoring junior members in forensics, research, ML/DL, and malware analysis
  • Part of core research team exploring intersection of AI and cybersecurity
isi
Research Intern
Jan 2025 – Aug 2025
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata · CVPR Research Group
  • Worked under Dr Umapada Pal with collaboration from University of Salford and Chinese Institute of Information Science
  • Implemented novel Deepfake Detection algorithm that outperformed SOTA methods
  • Paper accepted at ACPR-2025 (Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition)

publications Publications

paper
Enhanced Stress Detection via Intermediate Fusion of Intermodal Signals
Jan 2026
Intelligence-Based Medicine
Elsevier ↗
paper
Non-correlative Feature Interaction for Classification of Real and Fake Scene Images
Nov 2025
8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Gold Coast
Springer ↗
paper
Comparative Analysis of Multimodal Architectures for Effective Skin Lesion Detection
Aug 2025
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Frontiers ↗

education Education

manipal
Manipal Institute of Technology
2023 – 2027
B.Tech — Computer and Communication Engineering
  • CGPA: 9.3
  • Top 0.01 percentile in the ICT Department
dps
DPS Ruby Park
2021 – 2023
Class 12 — PCMCS Stream
  • 95.2% CBSE · House Prefect · Tech Club Core

Skills

languages

  • AssemblyScript
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Embedded C
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Rust
  • Go

web & frontend

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SASS
  • React
  • NodeJS
  • Vite

ai/ml & cv

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • CUDA
  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • GANs
  • CNNs
  • Transformers
  • YOLO

dfir & security

  • YARA
  • IDA Pro
  • Ghidra
  • Volatility
  • Wireshark
  • Autopsy
  • FTK Imager
  • Sleuth Kit
  • Binary Ninja

databases & big data

  • Apache Spark
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis

devops & sre

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Spinnaker
  • ADK
  • Cloud Foundry
  • Ansible
  • Puppet

observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • Jaeger
  • ELK Stack

tools & testing

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Kafka
  • Selenium
  • pytest

Achievements

[ RANK: 01 ]
  • EnigmaXplore 2024 — IIIT Naya Raipur
  • BITSCTF 2024 — BITS Goa
  • CruXipher 2024 — BITS Hyderabad
  • KashiCTF 2025 — IIT BHU Varanasi
[ RANK: 02 ]
  • TexSAW CTF 2025 — UT Dallas
  • BITSCTF 2025 — BITS Goa
  • CapturePoint CTF 2025 — IIIT Vadodara
  • ExploitX CTF 2025 — Top Individual
[ RANK: 03 ]
  • Codefest CTF 2025 — IIT BHU
  • eHax CTF 2025 — DTU Delhi
  • FooBar CTF 2025 — NIT Durgapur
[ ACADEMIC ]
  • Achiever's Scholarship — MIT Manipal
  • Finalist — JPMorgan Code for Good
  • Paper accepted — ACPR 2025

Volunteering

Head of Deep Learning
The Data Alchemists · Official Data Science Club, MIT Manipal
Head of Cybersecurity
Research Society Manipal · MIT Manipal
Member
Rotaract Club of Manipal · Community Service

Projects

ParaOxidizer

Standalone Rust-native post-training quantizer & inference engine for LLMs without external Python/CUDA dependencies. Converts SafeTensors/GGUF to zero-copy memory-mapped .pox format with Apple Silicon Metal compute shaders, second-order AWQ/GPTQ calibration, INT4/INT8 SIMD, and Ed25519 cryptographic verification.

RustLLM QuantizationMetal GPUAWQ/GPTQInferenceCrates.io
Raya

Rust-native static malware detection and binary pattern-matching engine. High-throughput multi-pattern Aho-Corasick scanning, recursive Pratt AST rule parser, deep PE32/PE32+ & ELF inspection, x86/x64 instruction disassembly (iced-x86), and Shannon entropy analysis with structured evidence tracing.

RustMalware AnalysisAho-Corasickiced-x86PE/ELF ParserSecurityCrates.io
FeTorrent

High-performance asynchronous BitTorrent engine in Rust with a distributed stack: headless daemon, REST/WebSocket API layer, and CLI/Web dashboard controllers.

RustBitTorrentAsyncWebSocketP2P
MemHawk

AI-powered memory forensics platform integrating Volatility 3 with local LLMs (Ollama) for automated triage, anomaly detection, and interactive dump analysis.

PythonVolatilityOllamaElectronDFIR
Irones

Cycle-accurate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator in Rust with 6502 CPU emulation, PPU rendering, and SDL2 audiovisual output.

RustSDL26502Emulation
Xerxes

High-performance filesystem navigation engine in Rust for macOS & Linux. Provides instant directory jumping via fuzzy pattern matching, a frecency-based ranking algorithm, interactive selection, custom path aliases, and automated shell hooks.

RustCLIFrecencySystemsCrates.iomacOS/Linux
rpsmon

Fast Rust TUI system monitor for macOS & Linux with live process insights, tree navigation, lock selection tracking, watchlists, signal dispatch, and configurable alerts.

RustTUISystemsCrates.ioLinux/macOS
ChiefWarden

Hybrid malware detection framework — Portable Executable (PE) static analysis combined with gradient boosting ML (98.89% accuracy).

PyTorchXGBoostPE MalwareDFIR
BlueShift

Native macOS dual-pane SSH and remote file manager built in Swift and SwiftUI with differential delta transfers (rsync), keychain credential store, and multi-hop bastion jump host support.

SwiftSwiftUImacOSSSH/SFTPrsync
Astraeus

Real-time orbital collision risk prediction with interactive 3D WebGL visualization and machine learning ensemble classifier (94.2% accuracy).

Three.jsXGBoostFlaskOrbital Physics
PassRanger

Android password manager in Java with encrypted local storage, optional Firebase sync, Autofill integration, and password entropy analysis using rule-based + ML scoring with HIBP k-anonymity checks.

AndroidJavaCryptographySecurity
DropLAN

Real-time local network file sharing service with zero-configuration peer discovery, streaming transfers, and QR connectivity.

FlaskSocket.IONetworkingWebSockets
FermiURL

High-throughput URL shortening service with distributed caching, QR code generator, real-time geolocated click analytics, and custom alias routing.

ReactFlaskMariaDBAnalytics
SimuTrade

Real-time stock trading simulator and portfolio tracker with Prophet time-series price forecasting and technical charts.

ReactFlaskDockerFinance
GAN_RepairNet

Deep convolutional generative adversarial network with U-Net architecture for reconstructing severely corrupted dashcam images.

PyTorchU-NetGANsComputer Vision

Open Source Contributions

dfir-gita MERGED
Cryptonite-MIT/dfir-gita · repo ↗

Major contributor to Cryptonite's comprehensive forensics training repository covering steganography, network analysis, and digital forensics.

DFIRTrainingForensics
campus-dining MERGED
aaditagrawal/campus-dining · +643 −50 · PR #3 ↗

Implemented a comprehensive localStorage favorites/bookmarking system for saving content across the Campus Directory.

Next.jsTypeScriptReact
macos-UnifiedLogs MERGED
Mandiant (Google) · +36 −6 · PR #97 ↗

Fixed out-of-bounds array access vulnerability in message.rs. Added proper bounds checking for unknown_uuid_index, preventing crash risk on corrupted DSC files.

RustSecurity
capa APPROVED
mandiant/capa · +25 −2 · PR #3176 ↗

Fixed bug in capa's PE feature extraction where module names for extensionless DLL imports (e.g. ntdll) were stripped by rpartition(), causing qualified import rule matching to silently fail. Added regression test suite.

PythonMandiantPE FormatDFIRMalware Analysis
superhuman MERGED
Google DeepMind · PR #5 ↗

Built a Python library for IMO Bench providing a clean API with type-safe dataclasses, filtering, and 35 passing tests.

PythonAPI Design
CppInterOp [ CERN & LLVM Research ]
3 PRs MERGED
compiler-research/CppInterOp · Clang AST Interoperability & Build Infrastructure

Contributed core Clang AST processing improvements, unified symbol resolution, and macOS test invocation fixes to the C++ interoperability engine used at CERN:

PR #842 ↗ Replaced fragile string matching with robust Clang AST-based check in IsBuiltin() MERGED
PR #846 ↗ Refactored shared symbol resolution and name handling in GetCompleteNameImpl MERGED
PR #829 ↗ Fixed macOS CMake test runner invocation and target dependency discovery MERGED
C++Clang ASTLLVMCMake

Blogs

Blog Collection

My collection of blogs covering digital forensics, deep learning, and systems programming.

Resume

Hobbies

Sci-Fi
RPGs
Barça
McLaren

contact Contact

Open to research opportunities and internships.

mail to das[dot]adriteyo[at]gmail[dot]com You may also use my PGP key

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