Ahsan Ayub
Security Research Engineer at Todyl
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhsan Ayub is a Security Research Engineer with a decade of experience blending cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering across academia, healthcare, and startup environments. He holds a CS Ph.D. from Tennessee Tech and has published extensively on ransomware, adversarial ML, DGA, and covert communications while building high-accuracy detection models and fast behavioral detectors for ransomware. In industry roles he has driven security engineering at Vanderbilt Medical Center, integrated LLM-powered autonomous SOC tooling at Dropzone AI, and now researches threat-driven defenses at Todyl. He pairs rigorous research methods with practical delivery—developing responsible AI policies, refining LLM prompts to reduce hallucinations in security workflows, and operationalizing monitoring and analytics for incident response. Based in Atlanta, he brings a rare mix of academic credibility and hands-on production experience in securing complex systems and AI-enabled operations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Engineering Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Engineering Computer Science at Tennessee Technological UniversityBachelors of Science Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelors of Science Computer Science & Engineering at American International University-Bangladesh
Bangla, English
Github Skills (17)
ai9
vulnerability-assessment9
vulnerability-scanners8
malware8
llm6
adversarial-machine-learning4
intrusion-detection3
data-mining3
windows3
distributed-computing2
openmpi2
mpi2
distributed-programming2
parallel2
openmp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AhsanAyub/irp-driven-ransomware-analysis
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
AhsanAyub/irp-logs-mining
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
This repo is created to perform data mining techniques on malicious and benign I/O Request Packet (IRP) logs on Windows machine to extract useful pieces of information to build a ransomware detection scheme.
Contributions:4 PRs, 497 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
data-miningwindows
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