JASWANT SINGH GANDAM & RAMAN NEHRA
PHAGWARA: Facebook and Google have collaborated in organizing a two-day Security Conference ‘Bounty Con’ in Singapore, where BCA (Hons) 2nd Year student Rohit Kumar of Lovely Professional University (LPU) has been invited to participate.
A varsity release Mach 7 said that the focus of the conference is on learning and developing practical skills for discovering and reporting high-quality vulnerabilities.
Scheduled to take place on March 30 and 31 at Facebook’s new Asia headquarters in Singapore, Rohit is fully funded with all air-fare and accommodations to attend the event conveniently. The event consists of technology discussions and industry networking opportunities.
Rohit is one among other students from the Asia Pacific region to get a free invitation. Security Program Manager at Facebook (US) Zach Turk has forwarded a letter that Rohit will be hosted as an invited guest of ‘Facebook’ during the conference
Hailing from the village Mokama in district Patna of Bihar, Rohit has been nursing a special liking for computer skills right from the fifth standard.
He shares that ultimately he joined LPU BCA program, coming far away from his home. Here at LPU, Rohit got indulge in his passion and established a strong place in the security researchers’ world in just two years’ time.
An ethical hacker to the core and a start-up enthusiast too, Rohit has earned many thousands of US dollars through his unique computing skills.
At LPU, Rohit has learnt to be an illustrious entrepreneur instead of serving somebody else. Presently, Rohit is also running two start-ups at LPU, one of which is incubated by top global start-up incubator and investor group, YCombinator.
Under the continuing guidance of his mentors at LPU School of Computer Applications, Ashwani Tiwari and Manikant Roy, Rohit now wants to lead many groups of LPU students for innovative start-ups at LPU Campus.
Rohit also informs that prior to this he was also invited to the First China-India Mobile Phone Summit. Illustrative, Rohit is following on the footsteps of his seniors at LPU including Bibin Babu, Rahul Tyagi, Nipun Jaiswal, Khageshwar Izardar among others, all of whom are names in their respective computer-oriented domains.
It is worth mentioning that the Singapore conference is being held to support the growth of the security research community. Students with university-level knowledge of security concepts and interest in bug bounty programs and other areas of security research have been invited.
In fact, founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build the community and bring the world closer together.
People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what is going in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
