Saastha Vasan
Graduate Student Researcher
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolSaastha Vasan is a cyber security researcher and PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara with 8 years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, malware analysis, and automated malware detection. He has built custom IDA loaders and plugins, replicated advanced attack techniques in custom sandboxes, and developed multi-tasking, convolutional, and LSTM models to improve behavioral detection accuracy. His background includes internships at UCSB and Cisco Talos and core team experience at Team bi0s, where he mentored peers and competed in CTFs, reflecting both technical depth and practical red-team skills. Based in Santa Barbara, he combines academic rigor with production-oriented tooling and a knack for extracting subtle static and dynamic features from obfuscated binaries.
8 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Ryan International School, FaridabadBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, First class distinction, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, First class distinction at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, KeralaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (6)
cuckoo9
system-analysis9
sandbox8
malware7
security6
ctf4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saasthavasan/Windows-Reversing-CTF-Challenges
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
saasthavasan/Malware-Analysis-Reports
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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