Rahul Chatterjee
Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor and computer scientist with 12 years of experience focused on making computer security—especially human authentication like password systems—more seamless and usable. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell after graduate work at UW–Madison and brings a mix of academic rigor and industry practice from internships at Microsoft and Dropbox that investigated developer crypto mistakes and abuse prevention. At UW–Madison he leads research and teaching at the intersection of security, usability, and authentication, translating empirical insights into practical defenses. His background spans software development and strategy in industry and strong graduate teaching in cryptography, showing an uncommon blend of hands-on engineering, user-centered security research, and classroom mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian
Stackoverflow
607reputation
216kreached
4answers
1question
cygwin
top-5%
Github Skills (56)
password-vault10
spyware10
scraper10
typos10
discovery10
passwords10
ranking10
google-play10
scrape9
ios9
security9
vault9
android9
api9
nodejs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rchatterjee/word2keypress
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 77 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
rchatterjee/mistypography
May 2016 - Mar 2021
Fixing annoying password typos during login
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 11 months
passwordtyposfixing
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