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Rahul Thareja is the Founder and Hardware Security Researcher at C1ph3r-Fsociety, where he develops offensive security hardware focused on RF, BLE, Wi-Fi, and embedded system attack surfaces. With a background in robotics engineering and embedded systems, his work centers on building practical hardware tools that help researchers explore wireless vulnerabilities and understand real-world attack scenarios.He actively contributes to the security community by organizing hands-on hardware hacking villages where attendees can interact with custom-built devices demonstrating wireless security concepts. Rahul has also hosted soldering villages that introduce participants to basic electronics assembly and hardware hacking, helping make the hardware side of cybersecurity more accessible to the community.

Sergey has over 20 years of experience in software and hardware development and reverse engineering. He began learning programming and the basics of reverse engineering at the age of 12, and started his career at Kaspersky Lab as a malware analyst at the age of 18. Over his long tenure at the company, he has made significant contributions to a wide variety of projects. Being an university lecturer, he shares his knowledge with the next generation of security engineers and researchers.