Ayushi M.

Ayushi is a senior at Troy High School in Southern California who is deeply in love with cybersecurity. Through her cybersecurity research at Rochester Institute of Technology AI4Sec Lab, she has made it to the national platform in research conferences, presenting her first-author work top computer science conferences like Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). With her independent cybersecurity research, she won 1st in Cybersecurity at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a presentation at International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), and Best Poster award among undergraduate students at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference. She also gave a talk at the National Security Agency (NSA) on her work. Currently, she collaborates with AT&T Labs. She is also an active advocate for cybersecurity and computer science education, organizing a group of local girls to attend the Women in Cybersecurity Conference each year through her club G-TEC, funding local high schoolers to present their novel research at MIT's Undergraduate Research and Technology Conference, co-leading Crack the Code, a cybersecurity hackathon, and managing OC Coder, a computer science non-profit that has impacted 2000+ students. She hopes to delve more into cybersecurity in college and continue her cybersecurity research in the future. Learn more at ayushimehrotra.com.