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PhD Candidate @ University of Florida | Graduating May 2026 Research: NLP × Cybersecurity | Open-Source Security | Misinformation Detection

I build ML systems that keep software safe and detect when humans get toxic online. Currently working on understanding how communication dynamics shape vulnerability management in open-source projects (because turns out, the way devs talk to each other matters for security).

Thesis: How Communication Dynamics Shape Vulnerability Management in Open-Source Software

Current Projects:

• 🔍 Analyzing OSS repositories to predict vulnerabilities through developer communication patterns
• 🧠 Building neuro-symbolic frameworks for validated knowledge graph extraction from Cyber Threat Intel
• 🎯 Detecting subtle toxicity in online conversations (the kind humans miss but ML catches)

Published Work: 8 conference papers • 1 US Patent • Google Scholar

Recent Highlight: Co-first author on Best Paper Award at SocialSec 2023 "People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation"

AI Resident @ SandboxAQ (Jan–May 2024) Built ML pipeline classifying cryptographic strengths across 300K+ encrypted files

Research Intern @ Accenture Security Labs (Summer 2023) Analyzed 100K+ commits across 20 OSS repos to identify malicious developer patterns

Software Engineer @ Moxie.xyz (2020) Full-stack: OAuth 2.0 integration, video processing with FFMPEG, 99.9% data availability with Cassandra

Software Engineer @ Pepo.com (2019–2020) Personalized feed algorithms, WebSockets for real-time chat, boosted engagement 35%

Software Engineer @ Ost.com (2018–2020) Blockchain APIs on Ethereum, 1000+ tx/sec, sharding & smart contract user recovery

Research Intern @ IBM India Software Labs (2017–2018) Co-developed Hyperledger Fabric IAM system with zero-knowledge authentication (Also co-authored that US Patent on identity attribute confidence scoring)

drwxr-xr-x  languages/      Python, JavaScript, C/C++, SQL, Node.JS
drwxr-xr-x  ml_frameworks/  PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, spaCy
drwxr-xr-x  databases/      MySQL, DynamoDB, Neo4J, Cassandra
drwxr-xr-x  research/       NLP, Graph Neural Networks, Knowledge Graphs

• 🏆 Best Paper Award, SocialSec 2023
• 🎟️ Travel Grant, Linux Foundation Open Source Summit 2025
• 🎓 Student Conferenceship, ACSAC 2022
• 🎓 Student Travel Grant, IEEE S&P 2021

Industry research positions starting Summer 2026 in:

• AI/ML Security
• Open-Source Software Security
• NLP for Cybersecurity
• Misinformation Detection

🌐 shlokgilda.github.io 💼 linkedin.com/in/shlok-gilda 📚 Google Scholar 📧 [email protected]

> status: on the job market
> availability: May 2026
> fun_fact: I analyze toxic online behavior for research but I promise I'm nice IRL