Cybersecurity Research

Developing predictive systems for vulnerability exploitation analysis and conducting hands-on offensive security tests.

NVD Exploitability Prediction Toolkit

Authored research on predicting the exploitability likelihood of software vulnerabilities registered in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).

• Transformer Fine-tuning: Fine-tuned DistilBERT and GPT-2 models on text descriptions of over 56,000 vulnerabilities to learn linguistic markers associated with exploit code releases.
• Exploit Likelihood Classifier: Built a regression system that yields continuous exploit likelihood scores aligned with EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) metrics. Achieved an 85.6% accuracy rate.
• Publication: Paper accepted in *ICANTCI 2025* and published in AIP Conference Proceedings.

Offensive Security & CTFs

• Pentathon CTF: Ranked **95 out of over 5500 teams** in a nationwide government Capture The Flag competition. Handled challenges in API exploitation, network mapping, binary forensics, and web vulnerability analysis.
• Tooling: Proficient in Linux, BurpSuite, Metasploit, Maltego, Wireshark, and custom packet analysis scripts.