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02 / recognition

proof, not adjectives

Wins, rankings, and responsible-disclosure acknowledgements from global organizations.

12×
national hackathon wins — incl. Bajaj HackRx 5.0 & Tech Future 2.0 (IIT Delhi)
#6
National Rank — Computing Intelligence Olympiad
10+
organizations acknowledged for responsible disclosure

// security acknowledgements

Responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities to global organizations: Lenovo, Panasonic, Oxford University, the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL), BuzzFeed, and multiple HackerOne programs.

LenovoPanasonicOxfordNCSC-NLBuzzFeedHackerOne

12× National Hackathon Wins

12 national hackathon victories, including Bajaj HackRx 5.0 and Tech Future 2.0 at IIT Delhi.

HackRx 5.0IIT DelhiTech Future 2.0

Critical OAuth Auth-Bypass

Identified a critical OAuth authorization-bypass vulnerability in an internal enterprise application during the backend engineering role — a concrete web/API security finding inside production systems.

OAuthAuthorizationWeb security

Published NLP Research — HCA-FND

Hybrid Context-Aware Fake News Detection (HCA-FND) — a published research paper. A two-stage NLP pipeline: TF-IDF + logistic regression for fast candidate filtering, then a DistilBERT transformer for deep semantic classification — balancing accuracy, latency, and interpretability for real-time use. Incorporates Named Entity Recognition and real-time fact-checking on extracted claims, reaching 96%+ accuracy across evaluation metrics.

NLPDistilBERTNERFact-checking