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Purna Sai Madala

Purna Sai Madala

Cybersecurity professional — MS, NYU Tandon

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Joined March 2026
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Summary

Cybersecurity practitioner and researcher with formal graduate training (MS in Cybersecurity from NYU Tandon) and hands-on research experience in academic and student-run labs focused on cybersecurity and blockchain. issuu+2
Published author on applied data-driven topics — contributed IEEE conference papers on machine learning applications for student placement prediction and studies addressing child undernutrition. ieee+1
Active technical contributor and coder with public repositories demonstrating coursework and lab work (e.g., OS shell-scripting), indicating ongoing engagement with software development and reproducible code. github+1
Student leader and academic support provider while at NYU — served as Vice President of Programming for the Graduate Student Council, course assistant for an application security course, and as a university proctor. wayup+1

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Writing

Student Placement Chance Prediction Model using Machine Learning Techniques

January 1, 2021

An IEEE conference paper presenting a predictive model (XGBoost-based) and exploratory analyses to estimate student placement outcomes using features such as academics, skills, training, and projects.

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Addressing Nutrition Gaps: An In-Depth Study of Child Undernutrition

Conference publication analyzing child undernutrition using data-mining and econometric techniques to study wasting, stunting, and underweight across regions, using government datasets.

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Hobbies

Organizing and participating in technical events; interests include cybersecurity and cloud computing. wayup+1