Mrinaal Ramachandran

Mrinaal Ramachandran

Engineering, Research, & Social Impact

About

I'm a graduate student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, interested in projects that combine technical skills with social impact. I'm particularly passionate about security, applied AI, and developing technology to detect and prevent online abuse. I'm currently working on CaseLinker and researching online child exploitation, and I hope to continue building tools that help make the digital world safe for everyone.

Projects

CaseLinker

A project focused on clustering and visualizing information from cases involving child sexual exploitation and abuse.

OSINT-Tracer

A project exploring and implementing OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques for locating and correlating publicly available information from online platforms.

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Completed Work

Zoom App Privacy Research

Co-authored research paper on privacy analysis of third-party Zoom apps, submitted to PETS 2025. Conducted longitudinal study analyzing 97,000+ marketplace snapshots and developed proprietary Zoom app to understand data access capabilities.

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UWB Communication System

Capstone project with General Dynamics Mission Systems. Designed and implemented Ultra-Wideband communication boards for data transmission, focusing on modular and scalable code to support bidirectional communication between devices.

Android Security Intern - DriverAI

Developed secure authentication workflows using SQLCipher, Play Integrity API, and Credential Manager. Designed AES encryption layer for Room database and implemented backend authentication flows with JWT-based token verification.

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