Shrid Pant

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Experience

Rochester Institute of Technology

Jan 2025–present

Graduate Assistant

Rochester, NY

GRA in the Adaptive Human-Robot Teaming (AHRT) Lab (Fall '26), advised by Prof. Jamison Heard.

Teaching and grading appointments
  • GGA for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (IDAI 700, Fall '25) taught by Prof. Douglas Wadle.
  • TA for Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (EEEE 447, Fall '25) taught by Prof. Jamison Heard (KGCOE).
  • TA for Network Services (NSSA 245, Spring '25) taught by Prof. Jonathan Weissman.

Sophic Compute

Jan–Aug 2026

Software Developer Intern

Cambridge, MA

Built the ML runtime for a platform that scales compute-intensive scientific simulations across clusters. The runtime brings research models into production to make workload scheduling and resource allocation decisions.

Microsoft

Jul 2021–Jun 2024

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, India

Engineered key features for Azure's flagship BCDR product (Recovery Services Vault), which protected 4M+ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Virtual Machines (VM) and other critical workloads from outages, ransomware, and disaster events.

Earlier role at Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

May–Jul 2020

Shipped improvements to Azure’s Linux backup extension, enabling native, application-consistent backups of Oracle databases on Azure Virtual Machines.

Other experience

Nabil Bank

Jun–Aug 2019

Intern

Kathmandu, Nepal

Digital Banking and Alternate Channels.

Education

MS, Artificial Intelligence

Rochester, NY

Rochester Institute of Technology

BE, Information Technology

New Delhi, India

University of Delhi

Publications

Journal articles4
Advancing Security in the Industrial Internet of Things Using Deep Progressive Neural Networks2023

Mehul Sharma, Shrid Pant, Priety Yadav, Deepak Kumar Sharma, Nitin Gupta, Gautam Srivastava

Mobile Networks and Applications; 28, 782–794

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Enforcing Intelligent Learning-Based Security in the Internet of Everything2021

Shrid Pant, Mehul Sharma, Deepak Kumar Sharma, Deepak Gupta, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

IEEE Internet of Things Journal; 10(4), 3071–3078

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Enabling Security for the Industrial Internet of Things Using Deep Learning, Blockchain, and Coalitions2020

Mehul Sharma, Shrid Pant, Deepak Kumar Sharma, Koyel Datta Gupta, Vidushi Vashishth, Anshuman Chhabra

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies; 32(7), e4137

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Ant Router: An Efficient Routing Protocol for Social Opportunistic Networks Using Ant Routing2019

Deepak Kumar Sharma, Swati Singh, Vishakha Gautam, Shubham Kumaram, Mehul Sharma, Shrid Pant

IET Networks; 9(2), 83–93

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Conference papers1
A Community Interaction-Based Routing Protocol for Opportunistic Networks2020

Deepak Kumar Sharma, Shrid Pant, Rinky Dwivedi

ICICC 2020 proceedings; Springer

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Book chapters2
Machine Learning-Based Internet-of-Things Security Schemes2020

Deepak Kumar Sharma, Shrid Pant, Mehul Sharma

IoT Security Paradigms and Applications; CRC Press

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Cryptocurrency Mechanisms for Blockchains: Models, Characteristics, Challenges, and Applications2020

Deepak Kumar Sharma, Shrid Pant, Mehul Sharma, Shikha Brahmachari

Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology; Academic Press

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