Rakesh Podder

Researcher in Cybersecurity, Firmware Security, AI, and Machine Learning. [Google Scholar]

Achievements

Academic Excellence

Certificate of Academic Excellence - CSU NRHH 2025

Outstanding academic achievement in earning 4.0 GPA during the 2024 Fall semester at Colorado State University (CSU). Link

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award - IEEE TPS 2024

Awarded the ''Best Paper Award'' at the IEEE TPS 2024 conference for my research on Resiliency Graphs: Modelling the Interplay between Cyber Attacks and System Failures through AI Planning. Paper Link

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award - IEEE QRS 2024

Awarded the ''Best Paper Award'' at the IEEE QRS 2024 conference for my research on ''The PIT-Cerberus Framework: Preventing Device Tampering During Transit''. Paper Link

Achievement 2

Protection in Transit (PIT) Open-sourced

Open-sourced "pit" libraries to Microsoft Project Cerberus, becoming a key contributor among 20+ contributors.