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Chaitanya Rahalkar

Undergraduate Student

Pune University

Biography

I’m a Computer Engineer in the making and a Tech enthusiast at heart. I love exploring and talking about Computer internals. My passion lies in building things with my power of programming. Check out my noteworthy projects and Open Source contributions on GitHub.

Interests

  • Deep Learning
  • System Programming & Operating Systems
  • Information Assurance

Education

  • Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Engineering, 2020

    Pune University

  • Higher Secondary School, 2016

    M.E.S Abasaheb Garware College

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Intern

BosLeo Technologies

Jul 2019 – Present Pune, India
Working on the design and development of a secure software-defined perimeter network. Building, a secure and robust SDN interface, supported with high performance aspects.
 
 
 
 
 

Project Intern

Quick Heal Technologies

Jun 2019 – Nov 2019 Pune, India
Worked on a Zero trust security framework model that allows corporate employees to work securely from any location eliminating the need of VPNs. Check out the project here.
 
 
 
 
 

Project Intern

Persistent Systems

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 Pune, India
Worked on End-to-End Lung Cancer Screening with Chest Computed Tomography Scans using CNNs and XAI under the guidance of Dr. Bhushan Garware. The project is highly inspired by this research paper and aims to outperform the current state of the art results.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

May 2019 – Jul 2019 Pune, India
Worked on study of side-channel attacks that target virtualisation level (the lowest level of the software stack) , where the attacker intends to exploit private information from the set of target virtual machines running on the cloud platform.
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Rhythmflows Solutions

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 Pune, India
Worked on a bank reconciliation project. Designed and deployed Oracle database on a VPS. Developed a backend system using Django framework for the administration panel, that reconciles transaction records of the bank and transaction history of its customers. Used data analytics to provide a statistical overview of the reconciled records.

Accomplish­ments

Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++ by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign May 2019
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning Specialisation

Coursera Jul 2018
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Certification Course in German

Pune University May 2018

Cryptography and Network Security

NPTEL May 2018

Projects

Cedit

A minimalistic text editor for terminal fanatics.

Cyberfort CTF

Cyberfort CTF is an online platform to test and advance skills in Penetration Testing and Cybersecurity.

Frost Linux

An Arch Linux Based Distribution for Developers.

Password Manager

An offline Master-Password-based Password Manager.

WebTTY

A Swiss Army knife that provides secure tunnels to localhost and allows you to share your terminal as a web application.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Hidden Secrets of Python

Python has a large number of really cool modules that people don’t know about. These are quite helpful. People often tend to …
Sep 28, 2019 11:00 AM Shoptimize India Pvt. Ltd.
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Ethics for Platforms

The Internet was created to be an open source to get connected to the rest of the world, to share information and bring the world …
Jul 11, 2018 2:00 PM College of Engineering
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MongoDB (NoSQL Databases)

MongoDB is on of the widely used databases. It is a semi-structured database that stores data in the form of documents (JSON like …
Apr 21, 2018 2:00 PM Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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Content Addressed Peer-to-Peer File System for the Web with Blockchain-Based Metadata Integrity

With the exponentially scaled World Wide Web, the standard HTTP protocol has started showing its limitations. With an increased amount …
Mar 27, 2018 11:00 AM Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

An explanatory talk about blockchain, cryptocurrencies and the impact of a decentralised financial system on the world economy.
Aug 25, 2017 11:00 AM Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Slides

Featured Publications

April 2020 In IJCA

End-to-End Lung Cancer Diagnosis on Computed Tomography Scans using 3D CNN and Explainable AI

We propose a new way of creating a unified interface for radiologists & researchers to analyze CT scans and support the system with XAI.

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December 2019 In IEEE

Content Addressed Peer-to-Peer File System for the Web with Blockchain-based Metadata Integrity

We propose a new content addressed peer-to-peer file system as a replacement to the bloated HTTP protocol assisted with the robust preservation properties of Blockchain.

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November 2019 In SIGSAC

Using Generative Adversarial Networks for Secure Pseudorandom Number Generation

We propose a new way of generating pseudorandom numbers using generative adversarial networks. We demonstrate that a GAN can act as a Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator (CPRNG) passing 97% of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tests.

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September 2019 In IJCA

A Secure Password Manager

We propose an offline password manager, that does not store passwords anywhere. These passwords are not even stored on the device of the user, but are generated on-the-fly using the algorithm, by providing the master password.

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Recent Publications

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End-to-End Lung Cancer Diagnosis on Computed Tomography Scans using 3D CNN and Explainable AI

We propose a new way of creating a unified interface for radiologists & researchers to analyze CT scans and support the system with …
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Content Addressed Peer-to-Peer File System for the Web with Blockchain-based Metadata Integrity

We propose a new content addressed peer-to-peer file system as a replacement to the bloated HTTP protocol assisted with the robust …
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Using Generative Adversarial Networks for Secure Pseudorandom Number Generation

We propose a new way of generating pseudorandom numbers using generative adversarial networks. We demonstrate that a GAN can act as a …
PDF Poster DOI Publication Link

A Secure Password Manager

We propose an offline password manager, that does not store passwords anywhere. These passwords are not even stored on the device of …
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