Shashank Lagishetty

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E-mail: shashankl@research.iiit.ac.in
Contact No: +91 9849805889


Detailed Resume is attached here

Career objective
To obtain a challenging position that nourishes my passion for learning and use my knowledge and skills to achieve the best.

Education

  • B. Tech and M.S. by research in Computer Science, Dual degree(CSE) , IIIT-Hyderabad, November, 2010(expected); CGPA: 8.4
  • Senior Secondary, St. Patricks Junior college (Hyderabad), 2005, 93.7%
  • Dilsukhnagar Public School (SSC), 2003, 89%

Academic and Research experience

  • Teaching Assistant for Mathematics course (Spring '08, Monsoon '09)
  • Teaching Assistant for Cryptography and Network Security course (Spring '09)
  • Teaching Assistant for Computer Networks course (Monsoon '10)
  • Currently working as Full time Research assistant at CSTAR (Centre for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research) lab

Course Work

Computer Networks, Cryptography and Network Security, Data Compression, Algorithms, Cognitive Science, Research in Information security, Graph Theory.

Areas of Interest
System and Network Security, Network attacks and Malware

Technical Skill Set

  • Operating Systems :GNU/Linux, Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • Programming Languages :GNU/C, GNU/C++
  • Scripting Languages :Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby
  • Web Technologies : HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, CGI, PHP
  • Database : MySQL

Publications

  • Shashank Lagishetty, Kiran Neelisetty, ”DIPS: Defense Against IP Spoofing”, Accepted in International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN) 2010.
  • Shashank Lagishetty, Kannan Srinathan, ”Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks”, Submitted in COMSNETS 2011.

Research Projects

  • Thesis - Mitigating Denial of Service attacks
    The internet usage has increased in all fields of the globe and new nodes are coming at a high rate. The network administrators are not able to provide the required resources like computation power and bandwidth needed for providing quality service to the users. The inabilities to provide enough resources to hosts is exploited by the attackers and are using Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more than any other tool to bring down the systems. Hence, mitigation of DoS attacks have becomes the focal point in the area of security research. We have identified the two techniques IP Spoofing and Botnets, which are responsible for making these attacks effective. We aim to develop the solutions to mitigate each of these techniques.
  • Defense Against IP spoofing
    The DoS attackers are able to maintaining anonymity because of usage of IP spoofing. To build a system which can sheild against DoS attacks, IP Spoofing should be taken care of. In this project, we developed a scheme which can filter the spoofed packets based on Hop Count metric of the packets. The quality of service is improved and number of false positives are reduced when this scheme is implemented.
  • Mitigating Denial of Service attacks caused by social networking sites
    Another technique through which DoS attacks are effective is due to the presence of bots. The increased activity on social networking websites attracted the DoS attackers and the attackers are using social networking sites to generate botnets. We propose a solution to stop this bots recruitment problem with the help of browser plugins. Experiments are conducted in facebook environment.
  • Static Code Analysis
    This project focuses on providing experience in analyzing the code and coming up with it's behavior or signature. Initially, a set of training codes are given and we have to match the new executable with the one in training set which matches the most. This is similar to detection of viruses using signatures but at the basic level. Next, we dealt with patching the simple programs and cracking the passwords from the object code. Tools used: IDA pro.

Workshops and Conferences Attended

  • Poster on "Privacy in Social Networking" to be presented in IBM ICARE 2010.
  • Attended Internation Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence (IJCAI) 2007.
  • Attended Microsoft TechVista 08 conducted in Chennai.
  • Attended/Volunteered International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) 2009.
  • Attended/Volunteered in Indian Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2009.
  • Barcamp on Cloud Computing held at Amazon IDC Hyderabad.

Extra-Curricular Activities

  • Organized cultural events during Felicity ‘08, a cultural cum technical annual fest of IIIT-Hyderabad.
  • Participated in track and field and carrom competitions for house in the college.
  • School captain for sports during my 10th class.
  • Participated in skit competitions in the college.
  • Got selected to be a student of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam's classes on E-governance at IIIT-H.
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