Graduate projects on machine learning, security and lots of other interesting topics from Bitdefender

1. DIPLODOCUS @ BITDEFENDER
Adrian Lupei - alupei@bitdefender.com
Software Engineering Manager
Teodor Stoenescu – tstoenescu@bitdefender.com
R&D Engineer

2. BITDEFENDER IN A SLIDE
• Over 500M systems use some form of Bitdefender
technology worldwide
• 11 offices worldwide (4 in Romania)
• R&D offices in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi

3. • Unusual patterns in network traffic (local & network) – detect traffic spikes, anomalies and unusual
connections
• Face detection/recognition exploration
• Image convolution with ML - find invariants in images – scaling, rotation, translation)
• Securing IOT devices for Windows Azure/Amazon platforms
• Securing Cars (include hardware opportunities)
• Large Scale Document Clustering and Analysis over ElasticSearch
• Smart Correlation Agents – Classification and clustering Security Events
DIVERSITY IN SECURITY

4. • Time series RNN – identify malware and clean processes using API calls from running sequence
• NLP Information extraction – extract structure from unstructured data
• Generative Models – understand better what your model is capable to learn
• Semi-Supervised Learning – model a system that ask for human interaction when uncertainty is high
• Persistent virtual memory across virtual machine snapshots – explore multiple paths/branches in
symbolic execution
• Big data analysis of execution traces – automated testing system based on symbolic execution
• Your idea related to security!
DIVERSITY IN SECURITY

5. • Submit an idea, search for other ideas in Diplodocus or e-mail to alupei@bitdefender.com
• Set an interview with student and discuss with academic mentor
• Interviews will start on 16th of November
• Some areas require strong theoretical skills (e.g. math for Machine Learning)
• 6 month scholarship, start as early as possible
• Expect innovation, papers and maybe patents
OUR APPROACH