Sonit Bahl

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Ericsson

July 2025 - Present

Cybersecurity Intern · Noida, India

• Worked on Unix Systems focusing on OS Hardening, PKI, Encryption Algorithms, Hashing, and TLS/IP configuration.
• Used Nmap, Wireshark, Kali Linux, and EJBCA for network scanning, traffic analysis, and certificate management.
• Performed CIA testing on 5+ internal software systems, identifying and documenting 12+ vulnerabilities.
• Implemented patch updates with the security team, ensuring timely resolution of identified system vulnerabilities.

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Samsung R&D Institute

Sept 2024 - May 2025

GenAI Intern · Bangalore, India

• Reviewed 30+ research papers on ViT, Swin, BEiT, DeiT to identify bottlenecks in fixed-size tokenization approach.
• Designed a two-stage adaptive pruning mechanism that scores and drops low-value tokens, improving accuracy by 15% and reducing training time by 25%.
• Reduced token count by up to 8x via content-adaptive patching, preserving accuracy and improving efficiency.
• Conducted ablation studies on token selection, measuring accuracy, speed, and efficiency on Oxford Flowers-102.

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Ericsson

May 2024 - Jun 2024

ML Intern · Noida, India

• Built Drishti, a 360° vision headband using Python, OpenCV, and camera modules for real-time object detection.
• Developed a video dehazing pipeline with the Dark Channel Prior algorithm, enhancing visibility in low-contrast footage across 10K+ frames.
• Improved object detection accuracy by 18% by integrating multi-camera inputs on dehazed frames.
• Implemented a LiDAR-based risk detection module with real-time audio alerts using pyttsx3 integration.