Sanjay Kumar Samala

Hands-on digital forensics practitioner: authored a full forensic expert-witness style report and repository documenting the acquisition, verification, analysis, and chain-of-custody procedures for a forensic hard-drive examination, demonstrating strong practical skills in forensic tooling and reporting. github

Teaching and lab instruction within cybersecurity education: repeatedly served as a graduate teaching assistant, lab instructor, and STAR for multiple CYSE courses (including Cyber Vulnerability Lab, System Security & Resilience, Computer Networking, and Human Factors in Cybersecurity), indicating experience mentoring students and delivering hands-on security instruction. github+1

Practical offensive security experience: maintains training material and walkthroughs (e.g., Metasploitable-2) and has performed penetration testing work, reflecting applied skills in vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and pentest workflows. github

Active in academic research on cyber-physical system security: named as a doctoral student supported on a project applying physics-powered detection methods to protect production systems, showing engagement with research that bridges machine behavior signals and cybersecurity. gmu