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Sarthak Grover

Computer Networks Researcher

Biography

I’m a network analysis and security researcher. I enjoy working with home networks & IoTs, analyzing Internet usage and reliability, and developing solutions to make our networks more secure.

Interests

  • Network Measurement & Analysis
  • Network Security
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • MA (PhD incomplete) in Computer Science

    Princeton University

  • MTech in Electronics and Communication Engg (Wireless Communication)

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

  • BTech in Electronics and Communication Engg

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Skills

Network Monitoring

DPI, pcap, nmap, tshark, iperf, broadband usage

Home Networks

IoTs, usage behavior, WSN reliability

Network Security

IoT privacy, smart home security, malware identification

Data Analysis

statistics, machine learning, SQL, Spark

iPython

pandas, scikit-learn, scipy, numpy, scrapy

Coding

Python, Scala, Java, C/C++

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Business Manager

Sugandhaa Co.

Apr 2018 – Present New Delhi, India

Manage finance and logistics of a family owned business. Currently completing Coursera MOOCs on deep learning and functional programming in Scala. Responsibilities include:

  • Sales and Delivery
  • Account Management
  • Logistics

Projects:

  • CDN performance analysis and comparison with ASNs
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

Princeton University

Jan 2015 – Sep 2017 Princeton, NJ
Researched IoT security, fingerprinting, and broadband usage.

  • IoT feature extraction and fingerprinting
  • Security and privacy of the Internet of Things
  • Broadband traffic analysis for Comcast customers
  • Teaching Assistant for Coursera MOOC Fog Networks and the Internet of Things
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

Georgia Institute of Technology

Aug 2012 – Dec 2014 Atlanta, GA
Researched home network availability, reliability and device usage.

  • Home network reliability and traffic analysis
  • Browserlab: Bottleneck detection and diagnosis of home networks
  • QoS control using SDN in home networks
  • Facade: Censorship circumvention using encoded web search terms
  • SAZO: Home network security at the router (Panoptes)
  • Analysis of end-to-end routing behavior from access-networks
 
 
 
 
 

Research Scholar

North Carolina State University

Jan 2012 – Apr 2012 Raleigh, NC
Researched indoor localization using radio.

  • Implement FM/AM on GNURadio and use RDS field to track location
 
 
 
 
 

Junior Research Fellow

Indian Institute of Science

Mar 2011 – Dec 2011 Bangalore, India
Researched wireless sensor networks for disaster management.

  • Closed form expressions for network reliability using tessellation
  • Field testing of WSNs and routing protocols for random hybrid networks

Accomplishments

Functional Programming in Scala

Coursera Jul 2019

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Coursera Jan 2019

Awarded STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship

Embassy of France Jan 2016
For research on IoT security and home network analysis.

Projects

.js-id-networking
All Networking Network Analysis Network Security Others
Network Anomaly Detection
IoT Fingerprinting
CDN Analysis
IOT DPI Analysis
IoT Privacy
Spooky Scan Analysis
Broadband Upgrade
Facade
FlowQoS
Browserlab
Project BISmark
mPaaS
SAZO
Routing Analysis
Indoor Localization
Smart Connect
WBAN
BCH Decoder
Face Tracking

Publications

A Case Study of Traffic Demand Response to Broadband Service-Plan Upgrades
S. Grover, R. Ensafi, N. Feamster
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
Greece. March 2016. [pdf]
Presented at CableLabs 2016 and Federal Communications Commission.

The Internet of Unpatched Things
S. Grover, N. Feamster
Federal Trade Commission - PrivacyCon Washington D.C. January 2016. [pdf, mp4]

Facade: High-Throughput, Deniable Censorship Circumvention Using Web Search
B. Jones, S. Burnett, N. Feamster, S. Donovan, S. Grover, S. Gunasekaran, K. Habak,
USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet (FOCI)
San Diego, CA. August 2014. [pdf]

FlowQoS: QoS for the Rest of Us
M. S. Seddiki, M. Shahbaz, S. Donovan, S. Grover, M. Park, N. Feamster, Y. Song,
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)
Chicago, IL. August 2014. [pdf]

Peeking Behind the NAT: An Empirical Study of Home Networks
S. Grover, M. Park, S. Sundaresan, S. Burnett, H. Kim, B. Ravi, N. Feamster
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference
Barcelona, Spain, October 2013. [pdf,ppt]

Panoptes: Detecting Malware Activity in Home Networks
S. Grover, N. Feamster
UbiComp Workshop on Design, Technology, Systems and Applications for the Home (HomeSys), Poster
Zurich, Switzerland. September 2013. [pdf]

An Experimental Study of Wireless Connectivity and Routing in Ad-hoc Sensor Networks for Real-Time Soccer Player Monitoring
V. Sivaraman, A. Dhamdhere, H. Chen, A. Kurusingal, S. Grover
Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier)
May 2013. [pdf]

mPaaS: Delivering Mobile Platforms as a Cloud Service
A. Gupta, S. Grover
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Poster and Demonstration
Lombart, IL. April 2013. [pdf]

Experimental Study of Mobility in the Soccer Field with Application to Real-Time Athlete Monitoring
V. Sivaraman, S. Grover, A. Kurusingal, A. Dhamdhere, A. Burdett
IEEE Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
Niagara Falls, Canada, November 2010. Best Paper Award [pdf]

Performance Evaluation of Wireless Body Area Network using Cross Layer Approach
S. Grover
Master’s Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee, June 2010. [pdf]

A Real Time Face Tracking System using Rank Deficient Face Detection and Motion Estimation
V. Saxena, S. Grover, S. Joshi
IEEE Cybernetic Intelligent Systems (CIS)
London, UK, September 2008. [pdf]

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