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Blue Vision: One Step Ahead of the Hackers

Meet Blue Vision

Blue Vision is a toolkit that allows IBM’s QRadar system to defend against complex security threats with the use of machine learning and robust statistical analysis techniques. This toolkit gives security analysts complete control over the data selection, processing, modelling, and visualization steps required to properly mitigate a wide range of cyberattacks.

Meet our team:

From left to right: Jose Taquia, Pratham Desai, Zarif Shahriar and Matthew Tigwell.

Zarif Shahriar

Zarif is currently finishing up his degree in Software Engineering at the University of Ottawa and has just one more year left. His key interests include going to the gym where he attempts to get thicc, eating good food with the boys and attempting to make good looking sites. Zarif was also a huge Game of Thrones fan, but like everyone else who saw the last season, his disappointment was pretty obvious. His primary role on Blue Vision is lead front end developer and designer but in reality making sure the boys never fall into the error of using Emacs.  Focussing on React and UX Design, Zarif was able to learn a ton of new concepts to improve his front end skillset while at the same time learning best design practices to improve his UI design skills.

Matthew Tigwell

Matt just finished up his engineering degree at Queen’s and is looking forward to returning to pursue a master’s in the fall. His roles on the team include working as a cognitive developer, motivating the boys at the gym, and convincing Pratham Emacs isn’t as good as he thinks it is. When he’s not busy developing API’s and ML models, he’s either at the track riding dirt bikes, or trying to prove to the rest of the team that motocross is the hardest sport in the world.

Pratham Desai

Pratham is pursuing a degree in Statistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto. He enjoys long walks on the beach and writing machine learning models that talk like Yeezus. When Pratham isn’t writing ML models to solve security use cases, he’s longboarding down semi-steep hills, throwing money into stocks, and trying to convince Matt that motocrossing isn’t the hardest sport. Recently, he’s started dabbling in frontend development and with the help of fellow frontender Zarif, has quickly mastered the ability to run create-react-app command in Emacs shell. Pratham enjoys Emacs, and believes it holds the keys to solving many world issues.

Jose Taquia

Jose is pursuing his MBA degree at Rotman School of Management. As the business intern, he spent most of his time with the market research, pumping up our numbers for the financials, and filling our presentation with supportive slides (Knowing he won’t be using Appendixes for NYC broke his heart). After the internship he may be tempted to start coding and go beyond the Excel macros. During his free time, he enjoys listening to urban music, and the meetings he records. Since Jose has moved from Toronto to Ottawa, he has enough time to spend his weekends exploring either downtown or his Nintendo Switch’s Zelda world.

We want to thank to all our mentors that helped us through this process: Milan Patel, Matthew Oulette, Susanta Datta, Adam Frank and finally, thanks to our manager, Bonny Grenier, for her support.