I'm a tenure-track Assistant Professor at  The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). My research area is focused on AI and cybersecurity.  Dr.Anupam Joshi advised me at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), and I was associated with the ACCL/Ebiquity labs. Before my Ph.D, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore. I did my undergrad at Jadavpur University, India.

At UTEP, I work on LLMs for cybersecurity, neuro-symbolic cyber models, and Reinforcement Learning. I am looking for students at all levels (undergrad through PhD) to work with. You can look at my google scholar profile to get a better idea about my research.

If you want to work with me, please reach out to me at apiplai@utep.edu, specifying your research interests and what you want to work with me on.