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Dinko Dermendzhiev

Ph.D. Student Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP)

Cyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Brendan Saltaformaggio

You can find my CV here.

Research Interests

Software and Systems Security, Cyber Forensics, Binary Analysis, AI/ML Security.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering2024 - Present
    Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)
  • B.S. in Computer Engineering2021 - 2024
    Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)

Experience

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Intern · Boston, MA
May 2024 - Present

CyFI Lab

Research Assistant · Georgia Tech
Jun 2023 - Present

Under the guidance of Professor Brendan D. Saltaformaggio, PhD.

  • Developing novel memory forensics tooling for the investigation of Machine Learning processes.
  • Recovering and reconstructing unique, edge-device DL models to enable auditing and white-box analysis.
  • Investigating strategies for root cause analysis of rogue AI systems for use in cyber-forensic investigation.

School of ECE

Teaching Assistant · Georgia Tech
Jan 2023 - Aug 2023
Digital Design Laboratory and Assembly and C Progrmaming

Comcast

Software Engineering Intern · Atlanta, GA
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
  • Developed and deployed two ML solutions to automate server health monitoring and anomaly detection.
  • Automated model use and maintenance (data retrieval, pre-processing, model consumption, retraining).
  • Mapped and simulated a database migration from SQL Server (relational) to CosmosDB (JSON).
  • Created an interactive CRUD web app to demonstrate the new data store and its throughput performance.