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Name Palak Chopra
Label Security Engineer
Email palakchopra AT iitb.ac.in
Url https://ipalakchopra.github.io/
Summary Digital Privacy | LLM Application Security | Security Operations Automation

Work

  • 2026.01 - Present
    PhD Scholar
    CSE, IIT Bombay
    Analysis and measurements across web privacy and anonymity networks like Tor.
    • Web Privacy, Anonymity Networks
  • 2025.08 - 2025.12
    Project Software Engineer
    IIT Bombay Trust Lab
    Automating security operations like IoC lookup, threat hunting, data analytics
    • Security Operations, LLM, Agentic AI
  • 2024.06 - 2024.07
    Pre-doctoral Researcher
    IIT Bombay Trust Lab
    Developing solutions for LLM application security and open-source security operations for educational organizations.
    • Security Operations, LLM application security
  • 2023.10 - 2024.05
    Project Intern
    IIT Bombay Trust Lab
    Architecting an open-source SIEM using ELK, Apache Kafka, etc., analysing Wazuh.
    • Security Operations, NIDS
  • 2022.07 - 2023.01
    Digital Forensics Team Leader
    DeepCytes
    Analysing digital evidences, proposing a framework of tools to assist efficient digital investigation with Hive, GRR, Sherloq, etc.
    • Digital Forensics

Education

  • 2020 - 2024

    Mumbai, India

    B. Tech
    K J Somaiya College of Engineering
    Computer Engineering with Honours in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
  • 2020 - Present

    Mumbai, India

    PhD
    IIT Bombay
    Computer Science and Engineering

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