Priyal Shah

3048 Kelley Engineering Center · Corvallis · OR 97331-5501 · (971) 248-0238 · shahpri@oregonstate.edu · Resume

I am currently working towards my Masters in Computer Science at Oregon State University. I'm experienced in Information and Network Security with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry.

The Information Security field fascinates me, and I've taken a variety of classes in it, such as System Security, Network Security, Cyber Attack and Defense, Cyber Security, Applied Cryptography.

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Pursuing research on IDS/IPS like Bro and Snort with Elastic Search to make them work together efficiently.

• As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, so far, I have worked with over 300 students as GTA of “Introduction to Computer Networks” and Software Engineering-1.

• Performed various duties such as teaching, grading, mentoring, researching, holding office hours, lab sessions and learned about Cybersecurity, intrusion detection, Bro, snort, elastic search, Kibana, Wireshark, etc.

September 2017 - Present

Student Technician

Information Services - Oregon State University

• Worked as student Network administrator and Information security lab assistant for phishing attack detection.

• Learned about customer service, handling engineering requests (tickets), Active Directory, Windows enterprise and Server OS, troubleshooting wired and wireless networks, troubleshooting enterprise hardware and software, phishing attacks, on call and walkup support to customers, etc.

March 2017 - September 2017

Web Developer

Autosoft Solutions

• Built a PHP website to monitor live readings of various sensors and meters by applying Laravel framework, JavaScript, Bootstrap and High Charts.

January 2016 - December 2016

Projects

Automatic Vulnerability Discovery

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Applying fuzzing (afl-fuzz) and symbolic execution (KLEE), exploits using python (pwntools)

May 2018 - Present

Digital Forensic Tool

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Implementing Huffman Compression and Rabin Information Dispersal for Mini Forensic Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks

May 2018 - Present

Experiment: Can malware be detected without having to decrypt the traffic?

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Working with multiple VMs, tcpreplay and .pcap files; IPsec, TLS Tunnelling for encryption; VPN; Bro and Snort as IDS.

April 2018 - Present

Experiment: Prevent control flow hijacking

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Prevent “system(/bin/sh)” calls on the network using Bro IDS.

April 2018 - Present

DDoS Mitigation

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Denial of Service Mitigation with Client-Server Puzzles The goal is to create a four-step protocol between two processes, one will act as the client while the other will be the server. Given the request, the server generates a k-bit hard puzzle. Trying different puzzle difficulties to see the impact. For example, in one instance, k = 8, and observe how many connections requests the client is able to make. Then increase, set k = 16, 20, 32, and observing the difference.

April 2018 - June 2018

Post-Quantum Signature

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Implementing Merkle-hash tree, HORS signature and d-time O(1) key-size HORS/Merkle-tree Mini Post-Quantum Signature.

April 2018 - June 2018

Experiment: Detection of cryptocurrency mining on network using Bro as Network Intrusion Detector

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Working with Mininet Simulations, tcpreplay, and .pcap files; Bro as IDS.

January 2018 - May 2018

CTF Competition

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Exploited Buffer Overflow, Arbitrary R/W, Format String vulnerabilities with Shell scripting; SQL Injection; Return Oriented Programming employing pwntools, Burp Suite etc. practicing reverse engineering of x86, x86-64 assembly with gdb.

January 2018 - March 2018

Network Analysis in TLS Protocol Versions

College of Engineering – Oregon State University

• Python implementation to measure throughput and communication delay in a simple topology.

January 2018 - March 2018

Data monitoring Website

Gujarat Technological University

• Built a PHP website to monitor live readings of various sensors using Laravel, JavaScript, Bootstrap and High Charts.

August 2015 - May 2016

Education

Oregon State University

Masters of Science
Computer Science

GPA: 3.60

January 2017 - Present

Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
Computer Engineering

GPA: 6.80

August 2012 - May 2016

Pravruti Vidjyalaya, Jeevan Bharti, Surat

Higher Secondary Education
June 1999 - June 2012

Skills

Technical Skills:

C/C++, Bro, Snort, IDS/IPS, Elastic Search, Kibana, Wireshark, Mininet, tcpreplay, Shell Script, Return-oriented Programming (ROP), pwntools, Burp Suite, x86; x86-64 assembly, gdb, Linux, Python.

Personal Skills:

Active Listener, Excellent Communication, Effective Time Management, Pressure handling skills, Quick Learner, Excellent collaboration, team building skills, management, and customer service.

Interests

Apart from being a web developer, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. In the winter, I am an avid skiier and novice ice climber. During the warmer months here in Colorado, I enjoy mountain biking, free climbing, and kayaking.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technolgy advancements in the front-end web development world.

Honors & Awards

  • Event Coordinator - C. K. Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology
  • 1st Place - C. K. Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology - Relay coding competition
  • 3rd State Level Road Skating Competition - Sports Authority of Gujarat
  • 36 Hours Nonstop Skating - Sarita Sagar Sankul Trust

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