Research
Research Student – Youth Mental Health & AI Applications
- Researched youth mental health during the MS-HS transition; authored a literature review.
- Coded a Python-based AI chatbot to provide mental health resources and support.
- Publishing/submitted work to International Journal of High School Research.
- Received virtual mentorship from Georgia Tech PhD student/TA.
- Presented at WSSEF (won 1st Place + Psychological Sciences STEM Excellence Award).
- Led monthly seminars at middle & high schools to expand awareness.
- Authored a book to reach broader audiences and promote youth well-being.
- Amazon.com: The Teen Survival Guide: Transition From Middle School To High School eBook : Kansal, Sara: Kindle Store
- The project is under the guidance of Vanessa Oguamanam (Georgia Tech PHD Student and TA)
Data and Security – A resilient framework.
- Research on data analysis for the critical and PII data for the customers for the financial institutions. (distributed over the buckets of similar attributes)
- Study of risks and bottlenecks in Hybrid Cloud environments (Vs On-Premises)
- Study of the Importance of Security for Mission-Critical Systems.
- Security Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Systems.
- Zero-Trust as a Resilience Enabler. API test tool as postman and data vulnerability during request and response.
- Automated Vulnerability and Patch Management.
- Data classification and tiered encryption for public, sensitive, and restricted categories.
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) mechanisms to monitor and restrict unauthorized exfiltration.
- Automated failover orchestration prioritizing mission-critical workloads.
- This Project work is a system study that aggregates, analyzes, and correlates security data from across the enterprise to detect threats, ensure compliance, and support incident response.
- The project is under the guidance of Dr. Sindhu Bhaskar (Forbes Council Member, Visionary Chairman – EST Group, Senior Executive Fellow – The Digital Economist)
2022
Discovery of Data and research on Security/Risk gaps on PII data.
2023
Research on security challenges and collection of research paper on SIEM/ACX, MFA.
2024
Understanding Zero Trust Model and Security Architecture and study models.
2025
Working on research paper based on the analysis and understanding on DLP and review.
