ISHANT SIDDHRAU 9521 85TH STREET Queens NY 11416, 347-264-3588, iks229@nyu.edu

EDUCATION NEW YORK UNIVERSITY – TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, NEW YORK, NY December, 2016 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering; GPA: 3.93 JABALPUR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, Jabalpur, INDIA April, 2014 Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering; GPA: 3.50 COURSE WORK Network Security; High Performance Switches and Routers; High Speed Networks; Internet Architecture and Protocols; Data Center and Cloud Computing; Probability and Stochastic Processes

WORK EXPERIENCE ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC., Austin, TX May 2016 – Aug 2016 Intern, Security Engineering ● Provided backline support for in-production Palo Alto Networks Next Gen Firewall devices for companies having end users

over 100. ● Supervised “Evaluation Program”, which offered end user to test the PANW, Bluecoat, Fortigates, TrendMicro firewall devices

in their live environment and prepare POC. ● Received grasp on the PAN OS 7.0 and 7.1 on Physical firewall series (500, 3000, 5000) and VM-100 series and Firewall

Migration Tool offered by PANW. NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, New York, NY January 2016 – May 2016 Graduate Research Assistant – “SDNSheild” ● Analyzed the bottlenecks and impacts of Distributed DoS in Software Defined Network utilizing commodity forwarding devices

and identified subsequent vulnerabilities of SDN network operation. ● Proposed SDNShield, a two staged mechanism joining the strength of software switches and statistical filtering algorithm to

protect SDN control plane against DDoS attacks. ● Performed extensive stand-alone and data driven tests to demonstrate the capability of SDNSheild against DDoS attacks, with

less penalty of flow setup time compared to alternative schemes. NYU STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, NY August 2015- January 2016 IT Technologist ● Managed daily operation of Steinhardt IT Help Desk with a team of 6 student workers for around 800 end users ● Performed IT support like troubleshooting hardware and training end user for software and hardware use ● Recommended solutions to the IT Manager for various technology related problems and tasks ● Interacted with professors, staff and students directly to provide support by triaging priority PUBLICATIONS: ● KY Chen, I Siddhrau, A Junuthula, Y Xu and H J Chao “SDNShield: Towards More Comprehensive Defense against DDoS

Attacks on SDN Control Plane ” , to be appear in proceedings of IEEE CNS 2016.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS: DDoS prevention in SDN using DPDK Packet processing: NYU Aug 2016 - Present Intel DPDK, C, Python, VMWare ESXi, SDN, Open Day Light, RYU ● Extending “”SDNSheild” by introducing revolutionary packet processing technology from Intel, ‘Data Palne Development Kit” to

implement statistical differentiation filtering on the incoming traffic. ● Preparing Test bed to protect network of Open vSwitch from DDoS using DPDK, network running on top of VMWare ESXi to

replicate environment like data centers. IMPLEMENTATION OF IP LOOKUP ALGORITHM: NYU Jan 2016 – Mar 2016 C Programming Language, IP lookup algorithms ● Implemented IP lookup algorithms- Binary Search on Prefix Length and Path Compressed Trie – using C language ● Tested algorithm functionality on PCAP library having over 100,000 IP address entries ● Examined the performance of algorithms and compared with other algorithms- Multi bit trie and Binary Search on Prefix Range NETWORK SECURITY THREAT ANALYSIS: NYU Aug 2015 - Oct 2015 Meterpreter, SSL Strip, Nessus, Cryptography ● Exploited a VLAN network by well-known attacks like port scan, Password recovery in WEP-PSK, MITM via SSL Strip, host

exploitation via METERPRETER, Target reconnaissance via NESSUS ● Secured the network using concept such as attack methodologies, forensics and tools like IDS, firewalls, VPN LOAD BALANCING IN FAT TREE STRUCTURE: NYU Oct 2015 - Dec 2015 MININET-Virtual Network Creator, Python Language ● Constructed Fat Tree network consisting of 16 end hosts to replicate a Data Center network using Mininet Emulation ● Implemented Load Balancing algorithm using OpenFlow Controller and controlled the inter host traffic SKILLS AND INTEREST: ● Certification: Palo Alto Networks PCNSE7 (XKVXVVC111VQ2B1B), Palo Alto Networks ACE 7.0 (PAN OS-7.0) ● Computer/IT: C, Python, TCP/IP Protocols suite, CCNA Switches and Routers, DHCP, DNS, SNMP etc. ● Software/System Proficiency: Palo Alto Migration tool 3.0, Wireshark, RYU, Open Day Light, MS Office, VMWare ESXi, Google

Apps, Windows, Macintosh, Ubuntu, KACE system, Active Directory.