Akash Agarwal

Akash Agarwal is a Security Engineer at Amazon since August 2022. Previously, Akash was a Doctoral Candidate and Doctoral Student at Purdue University from January 2015 to August 2022, earning a PhD in Security and Reliability of Internet of Things. Akash's experience includes working as an Application Security Researcher at SensorHound, Inc. from August 2015 to December 2019, where responsibilities encompassed developing a novel program tracing application and identifying vulnerabilities in source code. Additionally, Akash contributed as a Security Engineering Researcher and RASP Solution Automation Researcher, focusing on web dashboard security for IoT devices and developing anomaly detection techniques. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University (2013-2015) and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (2009-2013).