I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. My advisors are Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker.
My work centers on empirical analysis of real-world threats, including ransomware attacks on hospitals, large-scale email abuse, automotive security, and broader threats to critical infrastructure. I am a part of the Sysnet and CryptoSec research groups at UC San Diego. My hometown is Bangalore (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು), India.
- 2026. CSE Doctoral Award for Excellence in Service and
Leadership, UC San Diego.
- 2026.
Distinguished Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Security
and Privacy (Oakland) - News
- 2024. Finalists, NatSec Hackathon
(Stanford DEFCON and Shield Capital)
- 2021-2022. Receipent of
JN Tata
Scholarship.
- Program Committee, Research in
Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2026
- CSE Chezbob Coordinator, UC San Diego (2026-2027)
- CSE Visit Day Coordinator, UC San Diego (2026)
- Allyship Co-Chair, UCSD Graduate Women
in Computing (2023-2024)
- VP External, Jacobs Graduate
Student Council (JGSC) Member, UC
San Diego (2021-2023)
- Lost in
Translation: Text Message Spoofing via Email
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2026
- Measuring hospital ransomware Attacks
CAIDA AIMS-5, Feb 2025
- Unfiltered: Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses
The Web Conference, May 2024
- Panel 6: Mobile Device Security
FTC PrivacyCon, March 2024
- Having a great GSoC as an Open Source Newbie!
Google Open Source YouTube, Nov 2022
I'm a big advocate for Open Source and have been involved in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for a few years now. I've mentored five GSoCers (2020 (1), 2020 (2), 2021, 2024) during this time. In fact, I was myself a GSoC student in 2019 with the Zulip Open Source Project.