Darsh Poddar
Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — CS + Information Sciences.
Builder and published security researcher. Work spans autonomous AI agents, OSINT platforms, supply-chain analysis, ML for code, and systems tooling. Papers at SecureComm 2024 and ACSAC 2024.
Flagship projects
- ghostroom — live multiplayer AI escape room, 20 Linux desktops haunted by a local Qwen ghost. github
- brancher — 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. live · github
- tracelight — the Panama Papers, made walkable. Jac agent traverses the 2M-node ICIJ graph and narrates the shell-company chain. live · github · devpost
- chainviz — five AI agents investigating one compromised npm package. 1,087 packages × 217K OSV vulns, 4 real attacks replayable. live · github · devpost
- Phantom — autonomous OSINT platform. Claude planner-analyst loop dispatches 600+ parallel resolvers across breach DBs, social, crypto, domain intel. github · devpost
- FuckNetflix — Electron desktop torrent streamer. WebTorrent + bundled mpv + on-device SmolLM2 ranker. No subscriptions, no API keys. github
- coldshot — terminal agentic CRM. AI discovers prospects, researches pain, writes the cold email. github
- stormchain — weather-delay classifier for commercial flights. 842K flights + 3.5M METAR obs + cascade-propagation simulator. live · github · report (pdf)
Publications
- Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection via Semantic-Preserving Data Augmentation — SecureComm 2024.
- When AI Meets Code Analysis: A Study of Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning-based Code Models via Program Transformation — ACSAC 2024 Workshops (ARTMAN).
Experience (selected)
- Product Engineer, Respan (YC W24) — 2026
- Information Security Intern, State Farm (F50) — Summer 2026
- Research Assistant, UT Dallas Information Security Lab — 2024
- Software Engineering Intern, UrbanPiper — 2025, 2024
- Course Assistant, UIUC CS — 2026