Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft AI Red Team Tooling team, where he significantly contributes to the security and safety of AI technologies. He has played a pivotal role in developing Azure/PyRIT and Microsoft Counterfit, two key open-source tools designed to assess the security and safety of foundational AI models and traditional AI/ML systems respectively. His work focuses on red teaming AI systems, researching adversarial ML attacks, and creating tooling/services. Raja led the development efforts to architect cloud-scale adversarial AI/ML services, which are instrumental in scanning customer AI/ML assets for vulnerabilities and providing actionable recommendations. His contributions have been recognized at leading industry conferences such as RSA and Black Hat and featured in prominent publications like VentureBeat and The Hacker News. Having a master's degree in computer science from Purdue University, Raja's expertise is at the forefront of securing AI and ML technologies.
