Researcher and data scientist working across zero-knowledge cryptography, smart contract security, and applied ML. Hands-on experience auditing on-chain verifiers and DeFi protocols, reproducing real CVEs with working exploits, and building production data/ML systems (RAG pipelines, synthetic data generation, automated decisioning). Published research on Zcash protocol design, formal verification, and SNARK/STARK proof systems.
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- Working as a Data Scientist at Networth Corp. Developing a topic modeling pipeline, designing an evaluation framework, and building a robust chunking module for efficient text preprocessing.
- Worked as a Data Science Intern at Infinite Analytics. Developed a Q-learning-based campaign optimization model to improve marketing strategies. Analyzed campaign metadata, extracting insights to boost engagement and targeting.
- Worked as a Research Intern at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Applied Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to analyze a dataset of yoga images, identifying joint points as nodes in the network
- DefiLlama-Adapters: TVL Accuracy Fix (Merged): Found and fixed a missing lending-vault integration causing DefiLlama to under-report a live protocol's TVL; merged into DefiLlama's production adapter repo.
- ZKLint: Automated zkVM Circuit Vulnerability Scanner: Static analysis engine detecting under-constrained vulnerabilities in zero-knowledge circuits; reproduced real CVEs (CVE-2025-52484, zkWasm Load8) with working exploits.
- 1inch Protocol Product Analytics: On-chain analytics pipeline analyzing $18.4B in DEX volume across 2.37M users, benchmarking market share against ParaSwap, 0x, and CowSwap.
- Ecommerce RAG Chatbot: Production-style Retrieval-Augmented Generation system grounding LLM responses in real product and order data for accurate, traceable answers.
- NoirSec: Noir Circuit Vulnerability Test Suite: First open-source exploit corpus for the Noir zkDSL, 22 vulnerable/patched circuit pairs and 3 reproduced compiler bugs.
Zcash Research (ZecHub):
Medium:
- Shielded Bitcoin vs Zcash: Same Idea, Different Math
- Groth16 Explained: The Math Behind the World’s Most Deployed zk-SNARK
- Modular Arithmetic: The Clock That Powers All of Cryptography
- Why Agentic AI Will Rewrite the App Development Playbook-And Why I’m Here for It
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