Technical Lead (Crypto Forensics) @ C3iHub, IIT Kanpur · Founder & CEO @ BlockStash Intelligence
Founder of BlockStash Intelligence — a Blockchain security startup incubated at FIRST, IIT Kanpur. Developing cutting-edge solutions for cryptocurrency investigation & surveillance, collaborating with C3iHub, IIT Kanpur to detect & prevent illicit activities on blockchain networks. Empowering law enforcement & financial institutions to ensure digital financial integrity.
Worked closely with FIU-India, Intelligence Bureau, Income Tax, Enforcement Directorate, National Police Academy, West Bengal Police, Telangana State Police, I4C, CID and NIA.
The temporal aspect of blockchain transactions enables us to study address behavior and detect illicit activity. We study the Bitcoin transaction network using temporal features such as burst, attractiveness, and inter-event time, along with graph-based properties to validate ML-based approaches for malicious address detection. ...
After applying change-address clustering in Bitcoin, existing temporal features can be extracted and ML approaches applied. A comparative analysis shows address behavior in Ethereum and Bitcoin is similar with respect to in-degree, out-degree, and inter-event time. We identify 3 suspects showing malicious behavior across different temporal granularities not previously marked as malicious in Bitcoin.
Under guidance of Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla & Dr. Rachit Agarwal, IIT Kanpur.
Read moreA comprehensive real-time platform for cryptocurrency crime investigation and forensics, enabling law enforcement agencies and financial institutions to trace, analyze, and investigate illicit blockchain transactions. Integrates graph analysis, entity clustering algorithms, and machine learning for actionable intelligence and visual transaction tracing.
Introduces novel approaches to heuristic-based clustering, change address detection, and behavioral pattern analysis to improve Bitcoin address clustering techniques and entity identification — uncovering previously unknown insights about Bitcoin address ownership and transaction flows at scale.
Leading the crypto forensics team at C3iHub, IIT Kanpur. Developing tools and methodologies for cryptocurrency tracing, blockchain investigation, and digital asset forensics in collaboration with national law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Blockchain security startup incubated at FIRST, IIT Kanpur (3rd Cohort program). Building innovative crypto investigation and forensics solutions. Expertise in Blockchain, Cryptography, Cryptocurrencies, Big data analysis, Graph analytics, Machine learning, and Cybersecurity.
Research on address entity clustering in Bitcoin and malicious address identification in cryptocurrency. Developing blockchain analytics tools for illicit activity detection.
Published "Towards Malicious Address Identification in Bitcoin" at IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Melbourne 2021. Served as Teaching Assistant (Jul 2019 – Jan 2021), assisting faculty with assignments, exams, and student guidance.
Startup providing software solutions: e-commerce websites, Android applications, administration portals, and ERP systems for clients.
Built JSP (Java Server Pages)-based web applications for employee intra-communication. Developed frontend and backend using Bootstrap templates, JSP, and MySQL. Internal polling and survey portal used by 100–200 employees.
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Programming & Technology
C3iHub, IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh — 208016, India