Summary
Atul Bohara is a Senior Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience building data-driven network security and machine learning solutions, now at Relativity after impactful roles at Dragos and Network Perception. He combines deep academic rigor—a PhD with widely cited work on advanced threat detection—with hands-on engineering across firewall modeling (Cisco ASA/FTD, PAN-OS NGFW), ICS/OT cybersecurity, and NERC CIP compliance. As one of two early researchers at a startup, he helped scale the organization from <10 to 50+ employees through product-market fit, enterprise sales, and a successful exit. Skilled in data engineering and translating customer needs into usable features, he also has a track record of securing multi-million-dollar grants and simplifying complex technical concepts for stakeholders. Based in Chicago, he blends research-grade methods with pragmatic delivery to drive high-value security outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Jai Narain Vyas University
M.E., M.E. at BITS, Pilani
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign