Syed Ibrahim Khalil
Privacy, Security, and Data Engineer
Research Affiliate at the Smart City Research Lab. I specialize in spatial analytics, privacy engineering, and building robust, scalable data pipelines to solve complex real-world problems.
Recent Posts
- Active Defense and Cyber Deception
- Advancing Urban Mobility Privacy Engineering and Spatial Analytics
From July to December 2025, I worked as a Data and Privacy Engineer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Chair of Mobile Systems at the University of Bamberg. My work focused on the BMBF-funded Explanym project, which tackles a fundamental issue in smart city infrastructure: how to collect high-resolution mobility data to improve urban planning without compromising… Read more: Advancing Urban Mobility Privacy Engineering and Spatial Analytics - Threat Hunting Summit
Just finished up the Antisyphon Threat Hunting Summit. The main focus here was getting away from relying on alerts and actually looking for anomalies in network traffic. Learned a ton about using RITA and AC-Hunter to parse Zeek logs. The sessions covered how to spot beaconing behavior from malware, identifying long connections that might be… Read more: Threat Hunting Summit - Turn Ideas into Code with GitHub Copilot
Completed Carrie Roberts’ training on GitHub Copilot. I wanted to see how to actually integrate this into my daily workflow without just copy-pasting bad code. Learned how to use Copilot Chat for troubleshooting and generating unit tests, as well as the best ways to structure prompts to get secure, usable code. We also covered the… Read more: Turn Ideas into Code with GitHub Copilot - SOC Detection Engineering Crash Course
