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<h1 style="font-size:42px;margin:0 0 8px;color:#fff;letter-spacing:-0.02em">Darsh Poddar</h1>
<p style="color:#9ca3af;margin:0 0 24px">Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — CS + Information Sciences.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.65;margin:0 0 20px">
Builder and published security researcher. Work spans autonomous AI agents, OSINT platforms,
supply-chain analysis, ML for code, and systems tooling. Papers at
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00249" style="color:#3ecf8e">SecureComm 2024</a>
and
<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10918233" style="color:#3ecf8e">ACSAC 2024</a>.
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<h2 style="font-size:22px;margin:32px 0 12px;color:#fff">Flagship projects</h2>
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<li><strong style="color:#fff">ghostroom</strong> — live multiplayer AI escape room, 20 Linux desktops haunted by a local Qwen ghost. <a href="https://github.com/drPod/ghostroom" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">brancher</strong> — CS 124 honors group project (5-person team). PM + deploy lead. LLM-generated learning skill trees plus a Wikipedia knowledge-graph explorer with an anti-alphabetical ranker that surfaces real concepts instead of A-titles. <a href="https://brancher-beryl.vercel.app" style="color:#3ecf8e">live</a> · <a href="https://github.com/aryan47230/Group2ProjectGithub" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">tracelight</strong> — the Panama Papers, made walkable. Jac agent traverses the 2M-node ICIJ graph and narrates the shell-company chain. <a href="https://icij-offshore-leaks.vercel.app" style="color:#3ecf8e">live</a> · <a href="https://github.com/drPod/tracelight" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a> · <a href="https://devpost.com/software/idk-r6opke" style="color:#3ecf8e">devpost</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">chainviz</strong> — five AI agents investigating one compromised npm package. 1,087 packages × 217K OSV vulns, 4 real attacks replayable. <a href="https://supply-chain-frontend-nu.vercel.app" style="color:#3ecf8e">live</a> · <a href="https://github.com/drPod/chainviz" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a> · <a href="https://devpost.com/software/npm-supply-chain-risk-analyzer" style="color:#3ecf8e">devpost</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">Phantom</strong> — autonomous OSINT platform. Claude planner-analyst loop dispatches 600+ parallel resolvers across breach DBs, social, crypto, domain intel. <a href="https://github.com/drPod/Phantom" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a> · <a href="https://devpost.com/software/phantom-py83dj" style="color:#3ecf8e">devpost</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">FuckNetflix</strong> — Electron desktop torrent streamer. WebTorrent + bundled mpv + on-device SmolLM2 ranker. No subscriptions, no API keys. <a href="https://github.com/drPod/FuckNetflix" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">coldshot</strong> — terminal agentic CRM. AI discovers prospects, researches pain, writes the cold email. <a href="https://github.com/drPod/coldshot" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a></li>
<li><strong style="color:#fff">stormchain</strong> — weather-delay classifier for commercial flights. 842K flights + 3.5M METAR obs + cascade-propagation simulator. <a href="https://stormchain.streamlit.app/" style="color:#3ecf8e">live</a> · <a href="https://github.com/drPod/stormchain" style="color:#3ecf8e">github</a> · <a href="https://github.com/drPod/stormchain/blob/main/report/report.pdf" style="color:#3ecf8e">report (pdf)</a></li>
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<h2 style="font-size:22px;margin:32px 0 12px;color:#fff">Publications</h2>
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<li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00249" style="color:#3ecf8e">Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection via Semantic-Preserving Data Augmentation</a> — SecureComm 2024.</li>
<li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10918233" style="color:#3ecf8e">When AI Meets Code Analysis: A Study of Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning-based Code Models via Program Transformation</a> — ACSAC 2024 Workshops (ARTMAN).</li>
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<h2 style="font-size:22px;margin:32px 0 12px;color:#fff">Experience (selected)</h2>
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<li>Product Engineer, Respan (YC W24) — 2026</li>
<li>Information Security Intern, State Farm (F50) — Summer 2026</li>
<li>Research Assistant, UT Dallas Information Security Lab — 2024</li>
<li>Software Engineering Intern, UrbanPiper — 2025, 2024</li>
<li>Course Assistant, UIUC CS — 2026</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="font-size:22px;margin:32px 0 12px;color:#fff">Links</h2>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/drPod" style="color:#3ecf8e">github.com/drPod</a></li>
<li><a href="https://linkedin.com/in/darshpoddar" style="color:#3ecf8e">linkedin.com/in/darshpoddar</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:darshp3@illinois.edu" style="color:#3ecf8e">darshp3@illinois.edu</a></li>
<li><a href="/resume.pdf" style="color:#3ecf8e">resume (PDF)</a></li>
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