Ankush Singla Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Building an AI-powered coach to revolutionize sports training

• Led the Messenger Client Security team to create frameworks for secure storage, and automated pipelines to proactively identify vulnerabilities in various Messenger applications.
• Designed and implemented a platform independent secret storage API to securely store keys, passwords etc. on messenger client devices and make it easier for developers to add new secrets.
• Wrote and deployed an end-to-end vulnerability management framework for 3rd party libraries used by Messenger Android and iOS clients.
• Wrote and a fuzzing framework for Messenger developer teams to improve fuzzing coverage for critical Messenger E2EE codebase to flag potential vulnerabilities early in the development process.

• Project: “Making Information Security Intelligent with Deep Learning”
• Developed techniques to train deep neural networks for information security tasks like intrusion detection with minimal training data.
• Conducted techniques of policy-based ensemble learning and federated learning to allow collaboration among different domains. Project: “Efficient Broadcast Authentication for 4G/5G Cellular Networks”
• Developed broadcast authentication for connection bootstrapping in 5G networks.
• Built defenses for protecting the cellular paging protocol against security and privacy attacks.
• Prototyped the proposed schemes using USRP boards and open-source LTE implementation.Project: “Analytics at the Edge for Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Management”

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Developed machine learning techniques to aid in information security tasks.
• Developed deep learning architectures using adversarial domain adaptation to reduce the amount of training data required for training an intrusion detection model.
• Prototyped policy-based ensemble learning to efficiently combine outputs of decentralized ML models based on individual training metadata.

Boston, MA, US

• Developed machine learning techniques to aid medical professionals in identifying
• Trained image segmentation models for detecting cancerous lesions in mammograms with high accuracy.
• Designed image classification models to identify various pathologies from X-Rays with high accuracy.

Foster City, California, US

• Worked for the Pentesting and Digital Crimes team to secure various Visa products and services.
• Conducted Application and Infrastructure penetration tests for various projects.
• Partnered with the Digital Crimes team to track down and disrupt phishing campaigns against customers.

• Analysed and compared the various Software Architectures as well as Project Management models including agile and waterfall models.
• Advised Software Development teams on their various architecture related problems and design patterns to be implemented in code.

• Developed desktop and web applications for a smart electronics company with millions of users.
• Developed modules for configuring smart lighting fixtures and sensors for residential customers.
• Created a scheduling and alerting system for users to define routines and get notifications whenever certain user defined conditions are met.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

Senior Secondary Education, Non Medical(Physics, Chemistry And Maths)

Secondary Education