I am Shravya, PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. I am being advised by Dr. Bimal Viswanath. My research interests lie in using generative AI for the good of cybersecurity.
I have experience in using generative models (like LLMs, GANs, Diffusion, etc.) for tabular data generation specific to security tasks. I also have used generative models for the creation of synthetic conversational data infused with desirable traits like empathy, politeness, etc. to mitigate toxicity in chatbot customization pipelines.
As part of my master's thesis, I designed a multi-purpose access control system to manage smart home devices. I was advised by Dr. Kamal Karlapalem. In my Bachelor's honors project, I designed an ML-based malicious short URL detector.
I plan to spend Summer 2025 working on impactful research at the intersection of Security and Generative AI. If you have relevant opportunities, please reach out to me on LinkedIn or via email.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Aug 2021 - Present
CGPA: 3.76/4
Masters by Thesis in Computer Science
Jul 2018 - May 2021
CGPA: 9/10
Bachelor of Technology (Honors) in Computer Science
Jul 2014 - May 2018
CGPA: 8.79/10
IIIT Hyderabad & JP Morgan and Chase Research
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Developed the first named-entity labeled corpus tailored to SEBI regulations, encompassing 7,500 sub-regulations. Introduced 7 unique entity types specific to the Indian securities regulatory framework and created an Overlapping Named Entity Recognition tool with a precision of 87.47%.
GenAI expertise: LLMs (LLAMA2, FALCON, Vicuna, FLAN, OPT), Model customization (standard fine-tuning, LoRA fine-tuning), Safety alignment (Supervised fine-tuning, Direct preference optimization), Adversarial attacks, Hyper-parameter search, Prompt Engineering, AutoML
Security expertise: ML-based malware detection, Phishing, Spam, Network IDS, concept drift, BGP, website privacy, access control system, malicious URL detection
Machine Learning libraries: Huggingface, Transformers,Tokenizers, PyTorch, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, SpaCY, RayTune, LightGBM, AutoGluon
Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, HTML/CSS
Developer Tools: SQL Developer, VS Code, Weka, label-studio, SPSS, Nmap, Docker, Jupyter Notebook, Git, Linux, Vim