I'm Aryan, a security researcher building systems
Most of my work is about getting real security guarantees on hardware that wasn't built for it. A network IDS small enough to run on IoT-class devices. An authentication scheme for UAV swarms that finishes before the radio timeout. QKD control loops for industrial infrastructure. Different environments, same problem: limited compute, real attack surface, and an architecture that has to actually work.
Selected research
& publications
five pieces across network intrusion detection, applied cryptography, and quantum security: peer-reviewed venues and working prototypes.
MS CS student at UMass Amherst, working on network intrusion detection, applied cryptography, and quantum security.
I care about systems that hold up under pressure. That often means smaller, not bigger. My research tends toward lightweight architectures that run on constrained hardware: intrusion detection at the edge, authentication protocols for resource-limited devices, and control loops for quantum systems that have to converge in real time. The goal is always finding the minimum viable design that still holds under adversarial conditions.
