• Basanta Chaulagain

    Primarily interested in Cyber Security and Data Analytics

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My Specialties

My Skills

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at University of Georgia. My area of research is Digital Forensics and System Security. I am currently working with Dr. Kyu Hyung Lee.
I am a computer engineer with the working experience in the field of cybersecurity. As a security analytics engineer at LogPoint, I developed applications to extract useful information from various device's logs and prepare knowledge base components to present though various analytics tools like alerts, dashbaoards, reports, search templates, etc.
I have worked as a backend developer in the past. During my university years, I've completed dozens of projects in the areas like Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Management Information System, Database Design, Embedded System Design, etc.


  • Cyber security tools: SIEM, UEBA, Threat Intelligence.
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
  • Programming Languages: Python, C, C++
  • Scripting Languages: Bash, Python
  • Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Education

Education

I am currently doing my research in the field of digital forensics and system security.
I have taken courses including Operating System, Computer Networks, IoT Security, Software Security and Cyber Forensics.

Graduated with 79.16% with a firm grasp on different subjects like Computer Networks and Security, Theory of computation, Data Structures and algorithms, Software Engineering, Data Mining, Database, Operating System, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Computer Graphics, Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc amongst others.

Completed dozens of projects during my college and published a research paper on my thesis titled "Casualty Information Extraction and Analysis from News", in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Graduated with 82.5% with a firm understanfing in subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Experience

Teaching Experience

Lecturer at Cosmos College of Management and Technology May 2019 - April 2020

  • Delivered lectures to engineering students on programming courses like C and C++.
  • Prepared laboratory materials and conducted practical labs for programming.
  • Periodically evaluated student’s performance via assessments and assignments.




Work Experience

Security Analytics Engineer at LogPoint Sep 2020 - July 2021

  • Analyzed logs from different sources and prepared the use cases out of them.
  • Created alert rules that maps the events with MITRE framework.
  • Developed applications that extract information from different raw logs using regex patterns.

Presales Engineer at LogPoint Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

  • Evaluated customer’s network infrastructure and designed the solution deployment architecture.
  • Suggested the use cases to the customer’s SOC team to monitor the security of their organization.
  • Developed programs to automate the process of operation monitoring.

Backend Developer at Univhub Sep 2017 – Jan 2018

  • Involved in designing and implementing database for the solution.
  • Created REST APIs in Python to help communicate from the UI.

My Publications

Publications

  • B. Chaulagain, A. Shakya, B. Bhatt, D. K. P. Newar, S. P. Panday and R. K. Pandey, “Casualty Information Extraction and Analysis from News,” 16th ISCRAM (International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) Conference, 2019, pp.1002-1011.
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Projects

Academic Projects

Casualty information extraction from news article and analysis

A real time software to extract and visualize information from road accident related news from an online news portal.
Information extraction using techniques like Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Role Labeling and Regular Expression.

Plant Leaf Recognizer

A software that can identify ten different species of plant by scanning their leaves using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for object detection.

Scan Akshar

A software to recognize character for Nepali printed text using CNN model.
Training data preparation by transforming the shape of characters from collected Devanagari fonts.

Restaurant Management System

A web app that can completely automate the processes in small restaurants like ordering food, generating bills, keeping inventory records, recording financial transactions, and printing the invoice.

E-voting System

A web app to facilitate the student union’s election in college with the features to register voters and candidates, verify voter’s identity at the time of election, cast vote to the candidates and display the election result after the election.
Activities

Awards and Achievements

  • Winner, LOCUS Hack-A-Week, 2017
  • Finalist, Ncell App Camp, 2015
  • Edx Certified, Unlocking Information Security, Tel Aviv University




Other Involvements

  • Organizer, Hult Prize @ IOE Pulchowk
  • Media Coordinator, LOCUS National Technological Festival
  • Member, AIESEC in Kathmandu
  • Organizer, Children in Technology
  • Technical Volunteer, Help Nepal Network (HeNN)
  • Volunteer, Earthquake Relief Team, Bibeksheel Nepali
Get in Touch

Contact

Athens, Georgia, USA
Gokarneshowr-06, Kathmandu, Nepal