Google · San Francisco

Ayush Khandelwal

Security Software Engineer & Data Scientist at Google. TEDx speaker. Commencement speaker. Published in PNAS & Nature. Building systems that protect AI at scale.

6+
Hackathon wins
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Talks & panels
474
Scholar citations
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Ayush Khandelwal

Experience

Work

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Present

Software Engineer

Google — Core Security / AI Search Security

  • Leading end-to-end development of autonomous threat surface minimization for certificates on all Google data centers & personal machines
  • Build adversarial ML defenses and scanning pipelines protecting millions of model artifacts from supply chain attacks
  • Published on the Google Security Blog: Scaling BeyondCorp with AI-Assisted Threat Detection
  • Gold Prize — PSS Enterprise Security AI Hackathon 2023 (International) · Top Place — GHacks '24 Core (International)
  • Core Organizer, MIT Imagination in Action Expo with Forbes
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Software Engineer → Staff Software Engineer

IBM — Security Innovation Team, Cambridge MA

  • Won the Rhonda Childress Award for Inventive Design for prototyping a Cloud Security offering IBM invested in; also won IBM Blue Hackathon prize and filed first patent
  • Built security alerting systems, GitHub confidentiality scanning, and NLP models for data anonymization at enterprise scale
  • Published: Distributed Real-Time Threat Detection Engine — IBM Developer
  • Promoted to Staff Software Engineer within 11 months
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Data Engineer & Software Engineer

UMass Reich Labs × CDC — COVID-19 Forecasting

  • Built & deployed forecasting models that predicted COVID-19 cases; data sent directly to The White House & lawmakers across the country
  • Research published in Nature Scientific Data
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Software Engineering Intern

IBM — Austin, TX

  • Built a distributed threat detection engine for large-scale security monitoring
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Software Engineering Intern

IBM — New York City, NY

  • Won the Rhonda Childress Award for Inventive Design — IBM's top intern award for inventive engineering
  • Built NLP pipelines for threat intelligence extraction from unstructured security reports
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Software Engineering Intern

FREND (A Google Initiative) — Los Angeles, CA

  • Worked on Internet Saathi; built dashboards that helped educate 28 million women across India

Selected work

Projects

NeuroLearn

Winner

AI-powered adaptive learning that personalizes curriculum paths in real time. Features role model instruction and live performance feedback loops.

Python ML EdTech React
DevPost ↗

MarvinGPT

OpenAI Finalist

Gives ChatGPT emotional intelligence. Plugin that analyzes user emotions in real time and adapts tone, empathy, and response style accordingly.

Python LLM ChatGPT Plugin
DevPost ↗

SixthSense

Meta Featured

Interact with authors as if they're beside you. Uses neurofeedback signals to adapt reading and enhance physical-digital knowledge transfer. Meta Llama 3 Hackathon finalist, featured in Meta's blog.

Python BCI Llama 3 NLP
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DemiCheck

ML algorithm that detects skin disease symptoms through image processing. CNN-based classification trained on dermatology datasets to surface early-stage warning signals.

Python CNN Computer Vision
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Newstopia

ULaunch 2019

Sentiment analysis-based news curation that filters articles by detected mood — surfacing constructive journalism and filtering negativity. Won ULaunch 2019.

Python NLP Sentiment Analysis
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OneFeed

AI-curated timeline unifying X, Instagram, and YouTube into a single ranked feed — surfacing what matters, filtering noise across your social graph.

Python ML React APIs
DevPost ↗

Awards & Honors

Recognition

GHacks '24 — Top Place in Core

Google Internal International Hackathon

Meta Llama 3 Hackathon SF — Finalist

Meta · Featured in Meta's official blog (SixthSense)

PSS Enterprise Security AI Hackathon — Gold Prize

Google International Hackathon

TED AI Hackathon SF — 1st Place

TED · San Francisco

OpenAI Hackathon — Finalist

OpenAI · MarvinGPT

ULaunch Winner — Spring & Fall 2020

Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, UMass Amherst

International ACM Student Excellence Award

Association for Computing Machinery — ranked top ACM chapter internationally

Outstanding Leadership Award

University of Massachusetts Amherst · 2019 & 2020

IBM Hackathon Award — Climate Change

IBM

Rhonda Childress Award for Inventive Design

IBM · Prototyped a Cloud Security offering IBM invested in

Dean's International Award for Excellence in Computer Science

Manning CICS, UMass Amherst

Chancellor's Award — $60K Merit Scholarship

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Speaking

Talks

TEDxBostonStudio — NFTs are more than just Art
TEDxBostonStudio

NFTs are more than just Art

· 9 min

Watch on YouTube
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2022 — Bitcoin R&D Panel
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2022

Bitcoin R&D Panel — Moderator

· w/ Jeremy Rubin, Gloria Zhao, Andrew Poelstra

Watch on YouTube
Talk

AI Multimodal Revolution

IIA AI Summit @ MIT ·

Panel

The Future of SOAR — Panel & Fireside Chat

Security Orchestration Automation Response Summit ·

Talk

Governance — Privacy and Security

Web3 Summit @ MIT ·

Speaker

Commencement Speaker

UMass College of Information & Computer Sciences ·

Judge

HackMIT · MIT Bitcoin Expo · Google AI Red Team Hackathon · AGIHouse · NewNative SF

Judge & Mentor · —

Research & Writing

Publications

PNAS

Research paper — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

UMass Amherst · · pnas.org ↗

Nature

COVID-19 Forecasting Dataset — Nature Scientific Data

UMass Reich Labs × CDC · · nature.com ↗

Patent

Method for Digital Asset Transactions — P202200740US01

USPTO · Pending · Google Patents ↗

Education

Background

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B.S. Computer Science

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Chancellor's Award ($60K) · Dean's International Award for Excellence in CS · Dean's List ×4
  • Chair, UMass ACM — grew membership 770% to 560 members; won International ACM Student Excellence Award
  • Commencement Speaker, CICS · UMass Innovation Challenge Semi-Finalist ($35K funding)
  • Undergrad TA — CS397 Predictive Analytics & CS326 Web Dev · Peer Mentor ×2 years
  • Research with Prof. Tauhidur Rahman (Health Sensing & Ubiquitous Computing)
  • Founded driver safety startup using CV fatigue monitoring; ULaunch winner, VC interest secured
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High School Diploma

The Shri Ram School — New Delhi, India

  • International English Olympiad — Gold Medal
  • Robotryst — state-level robotics competition winner

Get in touch

Contact

Open to conversations about AI security, research, and speaking.

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