Het Rutul Joshi
Security and internet measurement researcher in Boston.
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- 1msrit.bengaluru2021B.E., Computer Science
- 2isro.bengaluru2024Security Intern
- 3trustlab.iitb2024Visiting Researcher
- 4moniotr.neu2025M.S. Computer Science + Research Apprentice
- 5sundararaman.ucsc2026Visiting Researcher
- 610a-labs2026Research Fellow
- 7* * *2027PhD, looking for the next hop
Research
- Dark web and geodifferences measurement2026 to now Co-leading two studies under Prof. Ram Sundara Raman’s group, UC Santa Cruz
- 10a Labs2026 to now Research Fellow, part-time
- Smart-TV privacy2025 to now Mon(IoT)r Lab, Northeastern, with Prof. David Choffnes. 12 TVs, 8 operating systems
- Tunnel and reverse-proxy services2024 to 2025 Trust Lab, IIT Bombay, with Devashish Gosain and Piyush Kumar Sharma. Lead author
- Secure LIDAR protocol for aerospace hardware2024 ISRO, Bengaluru
Publications
- Measuring tunnel and reverse-proxy servicesUnder review
- A privacy audit of smart TVsUnder review
- OCPP: a security analysisUnder review
- Cryptographic BastionsCRC Press, 2024 Book chapter on cloud security
- ChargeGuardPatent In-kernel DDoS mitigation for EV chargers, Government of India
- CVE-2026-885262026 Unauthenticated MQTT broker on the Xfinity XB7 gateway
Projects
- lotus
- A lightweight, local AI agent harness for Ollama, in your terminal.
- Measurement platform
- 20 nodes, 2+ TB a day
- SSHRead
- A covert channel, under review
- AI Agent Security Mesh
- MCP-aware proxy with semantic DLP
- WhisperBridge
- Prompt-injection defense, Tor-routed
- EgressProbe
- Kubernetes egress auditor in Go
- paperlab
- Local workbench for reviewing papers
- Kavaach
- OCPP testbed for EV charger attacks
- Sanjay
- Malicious Wi-Fi detector
Recognition and service
Awards
- Black Hat Scholarship2026
- BSidesLV Scholarship2026
- 10a Labs Fellowship2026
- fwd:cloudsec Scholarship2025
- Khoury Research Apprenticeship2025
Service
- IMC Shadow PC reviewer2026
- Founder, Mukti FOSS1,600+ mentored
- TA, Network Security2024–25
- Speaker, FOSSMeet’24, ’25