Experience

Academic and Research Appointments

2026 – Present
Lead Graduate Student
Prof. Celik's Research Group, Purdue University
- Mentor undergraduate and graduate students through weekly one-on-one meetings
- Guide Ph.D. students on research ideas, paper writing, and presentations
2022 – Present
Graduate Research Assistant
Purdue University
- Characterize UI attacks that cause unintended user interactions in immersive systems
- Detect such interactions at runtime using temporal logic specifications
- Conduct mixed-method user and developer studies of security and privacy perceptions in emerging mobile systems
- Analyze sensor and rendering side channels that leak user activity in AR/VR
- Design gesture-based group pairing for MR headsets using eye and hand tracking
May – Jul 2018
Research Intern
IIT Kharagpur, India
- Designed a peer-to-peer video streaming tool supporting adaptive bitrate streaming while reducing server load
2017 – 2019
Research Assistant
NIT Durgapur, India
- Designed and field-tested an offline crisis mapping system using crowdsourced GIS over a hybrid ad hoc network

May – Aug 2026
Systems and Infrastructure SWE PhD Intern
Meta, Menlo Park, CA · Similarity Understanding team, hosted by Jonathan Pinto
- Built per-model CPU, RAM, and GPU isolation for production machine learning models that assess the originality of content posted on Facebook
May – Aug 2025
Systems and Infrastructure SWE PhD Intern
Meta, Seattle, WA · Data Flows (Privacy), hosted by Justin Liu
- Shipped an AI agent that helps privacy reviewers understand why sensitive data flows across Meta's systems by locating where data is declassified in code
May – Aug 2022
Software Engineering Intern
Meta, New York, NY · Messenger Privacy, hosted by Ambareesha Raghothaman
- Developed UI tools that detect sensitive database access in code and visualize data flows across Meta's privacy assets, helping team leads vet Messenger features before release
2019 – 2021
Software Engineer
HSBC, Pune, India · Global Credit Module, Wealth and Personal Banking
- Developed full-stack features for a credit product used daily by relationship managers in HSBC's wealth banking