Mar 2024 – Jun 2024 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

• Security Research team @ Lacework Labs (https://www.lacework.com/labs).
• Company got acquired by Fortinet in June 2024.

Aug 2023 – Feb 2024 · 6 mos · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States · On-site

• Fraud Defense Cyber Center (FDCC) developing proactive fraud defense for PayPal products.

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Remote

• Back to PayPal for the summer, working on passwordless authentication with Dr. Adam Oest.

Jan 2022 – May 2022 · 4 mos

• CS6035 Information Security, Spring 2022.
• Instructors: Prof. Paul Pearce and Prof. Daniel Genkin.

Aug 2020 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Principal Investigator: Prof. Frank Li.
• Data-driven security and privacy @ BEES Lab, Georgia Tech.

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos

• CS6262 Network Security, Spring and Summer 2020
• Instructor: Prof. Wenke Lee

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Remote

• Worked on improving account security with PayPal's Applied Security Research team, supervised by Dr. Adam Oest and Dr. RC Johnson.

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr

• Principal Investigator: Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK)
• Our work on building intelligent solutions to mitigate Misinformation on WhatsApp got featured in leading Indian media like Times of India.

Dec 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Principal Investigator: Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK)
• Problems I worked on:
• Spam Detection on Online Social Networks
• "Cross-Platform Intelligence On Spam Campaigns Abusing Phone Numbers Across Online Social Networks", full paper presented at ACM WebScience 2018.
• Area of Research:
• Security and Privacy
• Social Computing
• Online Social Networks
• Collaborators:
• Prof. Mustaque Ahamad (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA)
• Dr. Payas Gupta (Pindrop Security Labs, Atlanta, GA, USA)
• Dr. Manish Gupta (Microsoft Research at IIIT-Hyderabad, India)
• Visit me @ precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/dhruvk/

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr · Remote

• Principal Investigator: Prof. Michelle Mazurek
• Advisors: Dr. Elissa Redmiles and Prof. Michelle Mazurek
• Area of Research:
• Usable Privacy and Security.
• Human Computer Interaction.
• Computer Security.
• Problems I worked on:
• (i) Readability of security advice.
• "First Steps Toward Measuring the Readability of Security Advice", workshop paper presented at IEEE S&P 2018.
• "Comparing and Developing Tools to Measure the Readability of Domain-Specific Texts", full paper presented at EMNLP 2019.
• (ii) Update behavior of users.
• "Asking for a Friend: Evaluating Response Biases in Security User Studies", full paper presented at ACM CCS, 2018.
• (iii) Behavioural economics study of adoption of security behaviors like Two Factor Authentication (2FA).
• "Equitable Security: Optimizing Distribution of Nudges and Resources", poster I presented at ACM CCS 2018.

Oct 2017 – Mar 2018 · 5 mos · Delhi Area, India

• Implementation of "Prediction of Admission & Jobs in Engineering & Technology/Management/Pharmacy" for the AICTE. Internship won as part of the first prize at Smart India Hackathon 2017 (under AICTE, MHRD, Government of India).
• Project Budget - Rs. 3,00,000
• Project Mentor for the Hackathon - Dr. Sambuddha Roy.
• Project Mentors for the project at AICTE - Dr. Siddalinga Swamy (Director, AICTE).
• Member, Team Extrapolate with Akshay Sharma, Somin Wadhwa, Aviral Gupta and Raunaq Jain.

Jul 2016 – Aug 2016 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Engine Chief was a startup founded by IITD/BITSP alumni - an online marketplace for buying and selling used commercial vehicles, aimed to be a one-stop solution to address the problems faced by businesses & individuals while buying and selling used commercial vehicles.
• Technologies : Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL