Nishant Bhaskar
Principal Security Researcher at MQ Prime, LLC
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNishant Bhaskar is a Principal Security Researcher based in San Diego with eight years of hands-on experience investigating privacy, electronic fraud, and cybercrime risks in real-world embedded systems. He blends deep academic rigor from a PhD program at UC San Diego with practical engineering experience at Texas Instruments and industry-focused research at MQ Prime, designing measurement infrastructures and countermeasures for low-power IoT and illicit urban implants. His work spans accelerator and low-power microcontroller architecture, RF and connectivity stacks, and system-level defenses that have influenced fraud detection and mobile device privacy. Comfortable moving between hardware, firmware, and systems research, he has a track record of turning complex embedded vulnerabilities into actionable detection and mitigation strategies. Notably, he combines field-deployed measurement design with prior industry experience resolving EMI/EMC and connectivity issues on TI platforms—a mix that makes him effective at both discovery and remediation.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceUniversity of California, San DiegoKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanSenior Secondary High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Senior Secondary High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Rachana High School, Ahmedabad
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (57)
ims10
lte9
wireless9
bluetooth9
4g8
hardware8
dac8
jekyll8
coverage8
5g8
hardware-designs8
samsung8
software-defined-radio8
kamailio8
open5gs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nishant412/patpannuto.com
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
My Homepage
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
gatsbymy-homepagejekyll
nishant412/gr-bluetooth
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
A Bluetooth receiver implementation for GNU Radio
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 3 months
bluezsoftware-defined-radiobluetoothblebluetooth-low-energy
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