I am an Assistant Professor at the Kahlert School of Computing and part of the Security/Privacy research cluster.

Research: I work on theoretical and applied cryptography, with an emphasis on developing privacy-preserving proof systems (e.g., zk-SNARKs), advanced digital signatures (e.g., adaptor signatures), and secure multi-party computation (e.g., coin-tossing), and exploring their applications in improving privacy, fairness, and accountability in blockchain and ML systems.

Education: Through 2020-2023, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CMU with Vipul Goyal and Elaine Shi. I received my Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara where I was advised by Stefano Tessaro and Huijia (Rachel) Lin, and got my undergraduate degrees from BITS Pilani Goa (spent a year at NUS Singapore with Prateek Saxena for my thesis).

Thanks to the National Science Foundation, Google Research, Stellar Development Foundation, Protocol Labs, and Stena Center for Financial Technology for supporting my work!