Summary
Basanta Chaulagain is a cyber security researcher and practitioner with 10 years of experience spanning digital forensics, SIEM/SOC operations, threat hunting, and incident response. Currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, he has led research on privacy-preserving forensic analysis of encrypted logs (FASEAL) and mentored students to simulate realistic attack cases for validation. His industry background includes building use cases, alerting rules mapped to MITRE, and developing log-parsing applications at LogPoint, plus hands-on experience deploying and validating SOC solutions for customers. Comfortable translating complex technical concepts for large, non-technical cohorts, he blends academic rigor (4.0 PhD work) with practical deployment experience and a knack for making opaque security telemetry actionable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Tribhuvan University, IOE, Pulchowk Campus
High school, science, High school, science at St. Xavier's College, Maitighar
English, Spanish, Nepali, Hindi