Akul Pillai
PHD Student at Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolAkul Pillai is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University with eight years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, binary analysis, and security research. He has a strong track record mentoring junior engineers and leading projects at Team bi0s, tackling Linux, macOS, Windows, and Android binaries as well as kernel modules using fuzzing, anti-analysis countermeasures, and exploitation techniques. At Purdue he combines academic research with applied engineering as a Graduate Research Assistant and Research Intern, bringing practical systems expertise to rigorous research problems. Based in West Lafayette, he blends deep low-level technical skills with curiosity—his interests range from ELF internals to Gameboy ROMs—and fuels long hours of code and experiments with a well-honed coffee habit.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus
Github Skills (200)
user-friendly9
python8
embedded8
textual8
flask8
react8
angr8
reverse-engineering8
tcp8
kernel8
linux8
internet8
bluetooth8
opengl7
micropython7
Programming languages (49)
Github contributions (5)
akulpillai/concrete
Sep 2020 - May 2025
Get coverage for compiled x86_64 ELFs.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
akulpillai/How2Kernel
Nov 2018 - Sep 2023
This Repository aims at giving a basic idea about Kernel Exploitation.
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 11 months
kernelexploitationaimsidea
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