Apurva Virkud
Cybersecurity Graduate Intern
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolApurva Virkud is a cybersecurity-focused PhD student and researcher with nine years of experience probing security, privacy, and Internet measurement across academic and applied settings. Currently a Cybersecurity Graduate Intern at MITRE and a Research Assistant at UIUC, Apurva has a strong track record of hands-on research at Michigan on sensor-based attacks against autonomous systems and ML-driven medical imaging tools. He bridges experimental measurement, adversarial thinking, and systems engineering to uncover practical vulnerabilities and build defensible analyses. Beyond traditional research, Apurva has applied his technical skills in diverse roles—from developing imaging pipelines for biology to teaching chess—highlighting a knack for translating complex ideas into teachable insights.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of MichiganHigh School, High School at Athens High School
English, Marathi, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
statistics8
python7
data-analysis5
forum4
internet3
censorship-circumvention1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vraj-desai/eecs495-Brad2
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
avirkud/endpoint-detection-mitreattack
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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