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Neel Pandeya
Principal SDR Applications Engineer
and SDR Group Leader
National Instruments (NI), US
Neel Pandeya is a Principal SDR Applications Engineer and an SDR Group Leader at National Instruments (NI), in Austin, Texas, USA. His background and interests are in open-source software development, wireless communications, DSP and signal processing, 4G/LTE and 5G/NR cellular networks, and software-defined radio (SDR). Prior to NI, he worked at several start-up and defence companies, such as Envoy Networks, Range Networks, Draper Laboratory, Texas Instruments, and Teradyne. He has previous technical management experience and university teaching experience. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of the New England Workshop for SDR (NEWSDR), and is a co-organizer of the GNU Radio Conference (GRCon). He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Northeastern University (NEU), and is a member of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN). He has an Amateur Radio License, and is aspiring to obtain a private pilot license
Appar Thusoo
Security Engineer
(SSRC) at Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Appar Thusoo is a Security Engineer working with Secure Systems Reserarch Centre (SSRC) at Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. His background and interests are in embedded hardware and firmware security and reverse engineering, open-source software development, signal processing, and software-defined radio (SDR). His primary research focus revolves around Side Channel analysis and Fault injection, with a current emphasis on Side Channel analysis for various Digital Signature Schemes. Appar is an active speaker and trainer on various international platforms and one-sixth of the formidable SI-SDR-UG crew!
Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer
South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group
India
Aditya arun Kumar is a SDR hobbyist who’s been doing SDR work for more than 5 years now. He has previous exposure to digital signal processing system and blind signal analysis and SDR applications for electronic warfare. He is interested in signal reversing and analysis of signal and physical layer security and building custom framework for communication systems. He is currently working on applications on Machine and Deep learning techniques for communication system as a hobby project.
Rohan Sundar
SDR Hobbyist
Rohan Sundar
SDR Hobbyist
Rohan is currently with Hicotronics Devices Pvt. LTD working on computer vision architectures for real time object detection. He also has a deep interest in High Performance Computing architectures, having built a Green Cluster which delivered over 2 TFLOPs of performance which was presented at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. He has also been involved in a project to automatically detect tuberculosis from X-ray Images for semi-urban & rural health centers in India. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University with a dual major in Applied Mathematics and Computer engineering. He is currently trying to acquire his amateur Radio License.
Samarth Bhaskar Bhat
Technical Director
Reinfosec
India
▪ Security Architect
▪ Over six years of experience in Information Security, design and development of Application
▪ Software.
▪ Audited 50+ business Web-Applications in the areas of Banking, Finance, Insurance, Trading and eCommerce.
▪ Conducted security audit of Payment Gateway.
▪ Expertise in handling various Application security Assessments, Penetration Tests and Vulnerability Assessment
▪ Good work exposure on implementation of SOC (Security Operation Centre) and Data Loss Prevention
▪ Proficient in understanding application level vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, response splitting attacks, session hijacking, authorization bypass, weak cryptography, authentication flaws & design level vulnerabilities along with the defence mechanisms.
▪ Expert in web security testing tools like Proxy Editors, Network Sniffing tools, Web Vulnerability scanners, flash de-compilers.
▪ Well versed with OWASP Top 10
▪ Proficiency in creating Threat profile for different types of applications
▪ Knowledge of different phases, methodologies, concepts and procedures involved in the PT/VA.
▪ Good understanding of vulnerability scanners like Nessus, QualysGuard, Rapid7 and Symantec CCSVM.
▪ Expertise in implementation and configuration disk encryption and email encryption (PGP)
▪ Sound knowledge on remediation process for the vulnerabilities identified during the assessment
▪ Proficient in Information security reporting for executive management
▪ Trained in secure code review of .NET applications.
▪ Trained in web services testing methodology.
▪ Sound knowledge of T-SQL, Crystal Reports, VBA, C# (Winforms), Visual Basic.NET
▪ Expertise in database programming
▪ Experienced with exposure and experience in understanding, reversing and
▪ fuzzing wireless protocols in the RF-Layer of systems.
▪ Experienced in reversing hardware protocols and implementing hardware attacks and threat-modelling of Wireless and Signals Systems. Have previous exposure and experience in Signal Design and Offensive Signal Tactics. Presently working on application of EW and SIGINT techniques in the Aerospace and Defence domain. Personal projects include machine learning and deep learning methods of recognition and deepfaking signals that can cause signal cant impact on the physical domain/layer of systems and OpenWRT for mesh networking.
▪ Signal Detection meta information extraction of signals using Commercially available SDR platforms.
▪ Protocol decomposition ofsignal of interest.
▪ Baseline formulation of minimum jamming requirements for RADAR and datalink.
▪ Utilization of SDR for SIGINT and ELINT in drones.
▪ Proof of Concept development of DRFM systems using commercially available SDR.
▪ Telecom signal (LTE) reconnaissance using commercially available SDR/
▪ Radio Direction Finding (RDF) and aggregation using commercially avaialble SDR.
▪ Establishment of CEMA guidelines for EW and Cross layer protocol research.
▪ Bechmarking of default DSP algorithms in GP-CPU's using python (adopted from BDTI guidelines).
▪ Network metrics computation of IQ data transfer metrics on mesh networks for SIGINT and ELINT operations.
▪ Wideband FHSS interception techniques using aliasing and FFT shot detection.
▪ Development of PoC of Automatic Modulation Recognition techniques using function models in python.
▪ 3D cyclostationary analysis ofsignalsfor operator visulalization.
▪ IQ signal generator and interference generator using SDR for RDF testing.
▪ Information security baseline for CEMA and ELINT operations
Balaji T N
Balaji was formerly working with Brisk Infosec. His area of interest and expertise includes Physical Layer Reversing in Wireless Communications Systems, reversing of embedded protocols for wireless communications and wired communications. Apart from this he has passion on learning CAN bus and he his planning to pursue his masters on the same.
Pradyumna C H
Hardware Security Engineer
India
Pradyumna is a Hardware Security Engineer in Product based company in India. He is well versed in exploiting Hardware systems and Wireless technologies, Fuzzing protocols, Firmware and Binary Analysis. His research interests include Analysing and performing SCA, FI Attacks, open-source software development, Software Defined Radio (SDR), Exploiting RF and Telecommunications. He loves to participate in CTFs. Pradyumna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering
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October 6th 2023
DAY 1
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October 7th 2023
DAY 2
Samarth Bhaskar Bhat
Technical Director , Reinfosec , IndiaAditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer , South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group , IndiaCEMA
Samarth Bhaskar Bhat
▪ Security Architect
▪ Over six years of experience in Information Security, design and development of Application
▪ Software.
▪ Audited 50+ business Web-Applications in the areas of Banking, Finance, Insurance, Trading and eCommerce.
▪ Conducted security audit of Payment Gateway.
▪ Expertise in handling various Application security Assessments, Penetration Tests and Vulnerability Assessment
▪ Good work exposure on implementation of SOC (Security Operation Centre) and Data Loss Prevention
▪ Proficient in understanding application level vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, response splitting attacks, session hijacking, authorization bypass, weak cryptography, authentication flaws & design level vulnerabilities along with the defence mechanisms.
▪ Expert in web security testing tools like Proxy Editors, Network Sniffing tools, Web Vulnerability scanners, flash de-compilers.
▪ Well versed with OWASP Top 10
▪ Proficiency in creating Threat profile for different types of applications
▪ Knowledge of different phases, methodologies, concepts and procedures involved in the PT/VA.
▪ Good understanding of vulnerability scanners like Nessus, QualysGuard, Rapid7 and Symantec CCSVM.
▪ Expertise in implementation and configuration disk encryption and email encryption (PGP)
▪ Sound knowledge on remediation process for the vulnerabilities identified during the assessment
▪ Proficient in Information security reporting for executive management
▪ Trained in secure code review of .NET applications.
▪ Trained in web services testing methodology.
▪ Sound knowledge of T-SQL, Crystal Reports, VBA, C# (Winforms), Visual Basic.NET
▪ Expertise in database programming
▪ Experienced with exposure and experience in understanding, reversing and
▪ fuzzing wireless protocols in the RF-Layer of systems.
▪ Experienced in reversing hardware protocols and implementing hardware attacks and threat-modelling of Wireless and Signals Systems. Have previous exposure and experience in Signal Design and Offensive Signal Tactics. Presently working on application of EW and SIGINT techniques in the Aerospace and Defence domain. Personal projects include machine learning and deep learning methods of recognition and deepfaking signals that can cause signal cant impact on the physical domain/layer of systems and OpenWRT for mesh networking.
▪ Signal Detection meta information extraction of signals using Commercially available SDR platforms.
▪ Protocol decomposition ofsignal of interest.
▪ Baseline formulation of minimum jamming requirements for RADAR and datalink.
▪ Utilization of SDR for SIGINT and ELINT in drones.
▪ Proof of Concept development of DRFM systems using commercially available SDR.
▪ Telecom signal (LTE) reconnaissance using commercially available SDR/
▪ Radio Direction Finding (RDF) and aggregation using commercially avaialble SDR.
▪ Establishment of CEMA guidelines for EW and Cross layer protocol research.
▪ Bechmarking of default DSP algorithms in GP-CPU's using python (adopted from BDTI guidelines).
▪ Network metrics computation of IQ data transfer metrics on mesh networks for SIGINT and ELINT operations.
▪ Wideband FHSS interception techniques using aliasing and FFT shot detection.
▪ Development of PoC of Automatic Modulation Recognition techniques using function models in python.
▪ 3D cyclostationary analysis ofsignalsfor operator visulalization.
▪ IQ signal generator and interference generator using SDR for RDF testing.
▪ Information security baseline for CEMA and ELINT operations
Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer
South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group
India
Aditya arun Kumar is a SDR hobbyist who’s been doing SDR work for more than 5 years now. He has previous exposure to digital signal processing system and blind signal analysis and SDR applications for electronic warfare. He is interested in signal reversing and analysis of signal and physical layer security and building custom framework for communication systems. He is currently working on applications on Machine and Deep learning techniques for communication system as a hobby project.
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Neel Pandeya
Principal SDR Applications Engineer , and SDR Group Leader , National Instruments (NI), USIntroduction to GNU Radio
Neel Pandeya
Principal SDR Applications Engineer
and SDR Group Leader
National Instruments (NI), US
Neel Pandeya is a Principal SDR Applications Engineer and an SDR Group Leader at National Instruments (NI), in Austin, Texas, USA. His background and interests are in open-source software development, wireless communications, DSP and signal processing, 4G/LTE and 5G/NR cellular networks, and software-defined radio (SDR). Prior to NI, he worked at several start-up and defence companies, such as Envoy Networks, Range Networks, Draper Laboratory, Texas Instruments, and Teradyne. He has previous technical management experience and university teaching experience. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of the New England Workshop for SDR (NEWSDR), and is a co-organizer of the GNU Radio Conference (GRCon). He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Northeastern University (NEU), and is a member of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN). He has an Amateur Radio License, and is aspiring to obtain a private pilot license
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Rohan Sundar
SDR Hobbyist
Rohan is currently with Hicotronics Devices Pvt. LTD working on computer vision architectures for real time object detection. He also has a deep interest in High Performance Computing architectures, having built a Green Cluster which delivered over 2 TFLOPs of performance which was presented at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. He has also been involved in a project to automatically detect tuberculosis from X-ray Images for semi-urban & rural health centers in India. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University with a dual major in Applied Mathematics and Computer engineering. He is currently trying to acquire his amateur Radio License.
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Samarth Bhaskar Bhat
Technical Director , Reinfosec , IndiaPradyumna C H
Hardware Security Engineer , , IndiaWireless channels GNU radio companion
Samarth Bhaskar Bhat
▪ Security Architect
▪ Over six years of experience in Information Security, design and development of Application
▪ Software.
▪ Audited 50+ business Web-Applications in the areas of Banking, Finance, Insurance, Trading and eCommerce.
▪ Conducted security audit of Payment Gateway.
▪ Expertise in handling various Application security Assessments, Penetration Tests and Vulnerability Assessment
▪ Good work exposure on implementation of SOC (Security Operation Centre) and Data Loss Prevention
▪ Proficient in understanding application level vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, response splitting attacks, session hijacking, authorization bypass, weak cryptography, authentication flaws & design level vulnerabilities along with the defence mechanisms.
▪ Expert in web security testing tools like Proxy Editors, Network Sniffing tools, Web Vulnerability scanners, flash de-compilers.
▪ Well versed with OWASP Top 10
▪ Proficiency in creating Threat profile for different types of applications
▪ Knowledge of different phases, methodologies, concepts and procedures involved in the PT/VA.
▪ Good understanding of vulnerability scanners like Nessus, QualysGuard, Rapid7 and Symantec CCSVM.
▪ Expertise in implementation and configuration disk encryption and email encryption (PGP)
▪ Sound knowledge on remediation process for the vulnerabilities identified during the assessment
▪ Proficient in Information security reporting for executive management
▪ Trained in secure code review of .NET applications.
▪ Trained in web services testing methodology.
▪ Sound knowledge of T-SQL, Crystal Reports, VBA, C# (Winforms), Visual Basic.NET
▪ Expertise in database programming
▪ Experienced with exposure and experience in understanding, reversing and
▪ fuzzing wireless protocols in the RF-Layer of systems.
▪ Experienced in reversing hardware protocols and implementing hardware attacks and threat-modelling of Wireless and Signals Systems. Have previous exposure and experience in Signal Design and Offensive Signal Tactics. Presently working on application of EW and SIGINT techniques in the Aerospace and Defence domain. Personal projects include machine learning and deep learning methods of recognition and deepfaking signals that can cause signal cant impact on the physical domain/layer of systems and OpenWRT for mesh networking.
▪ Signal Detection meta information extraction of signals using Commercially available SDR platforms.
▪ Protocol decomposition ofsignal of interest.
▪ Baseline formulation of minimum jamming requirements for RADAR and datalink.
▪ Utilization of SDR for SIGINT and ELINT in drones.
▪ Proof of Concept development of DRFM systems using commercially available SDR.
▪ Telecom signal (LTE) reconnaissance using commercially available SDR/
▪ Radio Direction Finding (RDF) and aggregation using commercially avaialble SDR.
▪ Establishment of CEMA guidelines for EW and Cross layer protocol research.
▪ Bechmarking of default DSP algorithms in GP-CPU's using python (adopted from BDTI guidelines).
▪ Network metrics computation of IQ data transfer metrics on mesh networks for SIGINT and ELINT operations.
▪ Wideband FHSS interception techniques using aliasing and FFT shot detection.
▪ Development of PoC of Automatic Modulation Recognition techniques using function models in python.
▪ 3D cyclostationary analysis ofsignalsfor operator visulalization.
▪ IQ signal generator and interference generator using SDR for RDF testing.
▪ Information security baseline for CEMA and ELINT operations
Pradyumna C H
Hardware Security Engineer
India
Pradyumna is a Hardware Security Engineer in Product based company in India. He is well versed in exploiting Hardware systems and Wireless technologies, Fuzzing protocols, Firmware and Binary Analysis. His research interests include Analysing and performing SCA, FI Attacks, open-source software development, Software Defined Radio (SDR), Exploiting RF and Telecommunications. He loves to participate in CTFs. Pradyumna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering
Balaji T N
Balaji was formerly working with Brisk Infosec. His area of interest and expertise includes Physical Layer Reversing in Wireless Communications Systems, reversing of embedded protocols for wireless communications and wired communications. Apart from this he has passion on learning CAN bus and he his planning to pursue his masters on the same.
Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer , South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group , IndiaOpen source 5G stack hands on, and first implementation
Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer
South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group
India
Aditya arun Kumar is a SDR hobbyist who’s been doing SDR work for more than 5 years now. He has previous exposure to digital signal processing system and blind signal analysis and SDR applications for electronic warfare. He is interested in signal reversing and analysis of signal and physical layer security and building custom framework for communication systems. He is currently working on applications on Machine and Deep learning techniques for communication system as a hobby project.
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Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer , South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group , IndiaOpen source 5G stack hands on, and first implementation
Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer
South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group
India
Aditya arun Kumar is a SDR hobbyist who’s been doing SDR work for more than 5 years now. He has previous exposure to digital signal processing system and blind signal analysis and SDR applications for electronic warfare. He is interested in signal reversing and analysis of signal and physical layer security and building custom framework for communication systems. He is currently working on applications on Machine and Deep learning techniques for communication system as a hobby project.
Appar Thusoo
Security Engineer , (SSRC) at Technology Innovation Institute (TII) , Abu Dhabi, UAEBLE Exploration using SDR technques
Appar Thusoo
Security Engineer
(SSRC) at Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Appar Thusoo is a Security Engineer working with Secure Systems Reserarch Centre (SSRC) at Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. His background and interests are in embedded hardware and firmware security and reverse engineering, open-source software development, signal processing, and software-defined radio (SDR). His primary research focus revolves around Side Channel analysis and Fault injection, with a current emphasis on Side Channel analysis for various Digital Signature Schemes. Appar is an active speaker and trainer on various international platforms and one-sixth of the formidable SI-SDR-UG crew!
LUNCH BREAK
Aditya Arun Kumar
Advisor and Trainer , South Indian- software defined radio (SI-SDR) group , IndiaRohan Sundar
SDR HobbyistCVE 2020-25279
Aditya Arun Kumar
Aditya arun Kumar is a SDR hobbyist who’s been doing SDR work for more than 5 years now. He has previous exposure to digital signal processing system and blind signal analysis and SDR applications for electronic warfare. He is interested in signal reversing and analysis of signal and physical layer security and building custom framework for communication systems. He is currently working on applications on Machine and Deep learning techniques for communication system as a hobby project.
Rohan Sundar
SDR Hobbyist
Rohan is currently with Hicotronics Devices Pvt. LTD working on computer vision architectures for real time object detection. He also has a deep interest in High Performance Computing architectures, having built a Green Cluster which delivered over 2 TFLOPs of performance which was presented at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. He has also been involved in a project to automatically detect tuberculosis from X-ray Images for semi-urban & rural health centers in India. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University with a dual major in Applied Mathematics and Computer engineering. He is currently trying to acquire his amateur Radio License.
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