Scholar
Debeshee Das
Google Scholar ID: sSPq-ZEAAAAJ
MSc Computer Science Student at ETH Zurich
Citations & Impact
Citations
91
H-index
4
i10-index
2
Publications
8
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published 'Blind Baselines Beat Membership Inference Attacks for Foundation Models' at IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2025
- - Published 'Position: Membership Inference Attacks Cannot Prove That a Model was Trained on Your Data' at Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys), 2025
Research Experience
- - UC Berkeley - Wagner Research Group: Master's Thesis, exploring attacks and defenses in real-world AI agents with persistent memory (September 2025 - Present)
- - Snyk / Invariant Labs: AI Security Research Intern, developed a novel instruction-tagger and sanitizer based defence for indirect prompt injection attacks on LLM agents (Summer 2025)
- - ETH Zurich - SPY Lab: Research Project, demonstrated fundamental flaws in evaluation of membership inference (MI) privacy attacks on foundation model LLMs (Spring 2024 - Present)
- - Microsoft: M365 Research Intern, developed a novel approach to Cloud Incident Root Cause Analysis using semi-automatic knowledge graph creation and graph-based retrieval augmented LLM pipeline (Spring 2025)
- - IBM Research Labs, India: Summer Research Intern and Bachelor's Thesis, designed open-source code-view generation tool COMEX and a novel code-view infused BERT model achieving 96% precision on multiple automated SE tasks (Summer 2022 - Spring 2023)
Education
- MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, majoring in Machine Intelligence with a focus on AI security and privacy research.
Background
- AI Security & Privacy Researcher. Research interests include AI security and privacy, foundation models, prompt injection defense, membership inference, and adversarial robustness.
Miscellany
- Graduated as the top student across all departments at IIT Tirupati (President's Gold Medal recipient) and recognized with prestigious awards including the IEEE WISC Premier Scholarship and Pralhad P. Chhabria Award for excellence in STEM research.
