# Vaibhav Rastogi

> Software Engineer | Security Researcher

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vaibhavrastogi

I have multiple years of experience with software engineering, and more specifically security engineering, including mobile security, web security, and application containers. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University. I have published over twenty peer-reviewed publications and multiple awarded patent and pending patents.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Finding malware and abuse in the Android app ecosystem

### Assistant Scientist @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Worked on a number of computer security projects
- Cimplifier specializes a Docker container to a given use case, removing all the unnecessary files, reducing its size and attack surface
- Investigating how to mitigate adversarial examples in machine learning

### Software Engineer @ Tala Security
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
- Developed high performance, low friction solutions for securing modern web applications
- Developed solutions for constructs not directly handled by security standards like Content Security Policy (CSP) and Sub-Resource Integrity (SRI)

### Research Associate @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### Research Associate @ Penn State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
This was a joint appointment with my Research Associate appointment at UW-Madison


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University

### Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-rastogi
- Portfolio: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~vrastogi/
- Portfolio: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ODCUXBgAAAAJ

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Last updated: 2026-04-12