CV

Updated as of January 2024

Academic Interests

  • I am broadly interested in the theoretical aspects of classical and (post-)quantum cryptography.

Education

  • Sep 2023 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
    • GPA - 4.0/4.0
    • Working on Theoretical Cryptography
  • Sep 2021 - June 2023
    MS in Computer Science
    University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
    • GPA - 4.0/4.0
    • Major Area - Foundations of Computer Science
  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2018
    B.Tech in Electrical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
    • CGPA - 8.38/10
    • Minor - Mathematics for Computer Science

Coursework

  • UW-Madison
    • Theory - Topics in Cryptographic Proof Systems, Computational Complexity
    • Other - Machine Learning, Security and Privacy for Machine Learning
  • UC Santa Barbara
    • Major Area - Topics in Quantum Cryptography, Spectral Graph Theory and Laplacian Matrices, Quantitative Information Flow and Side Channel Analysis, Computer Aided Reasoning for Software
    • Breadth Requirement - Scalable Internet Services, Software Fuzzing for Security and Correctness
    • Other - Matrix Analysis and Computation
  • IIT Madras
    • Minor - Number Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Mathematical Logic
    • Electives - Foundations of Cryptography, Lattice Cryptography(Recent Dev. in Theoretical CS), Applied Cryptography, Error Control Coding Theory
    • Foundational - Linear Algebra, Probability for Electrcial Engineers

Experience

  • Jun 2022 - Present
    Research Internship
    UC Santa Barbara, Guide - Prof. Prabhanjan Ananth
  • Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
    Member Technical Staff
    Oracle R&D India, Bengaluru, India

Publications

Recent Awards

Teaching and Mentoship Experience

Projects

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Ice skating, Rubik's cube fast solving, watching exotic films, digital art.