I am a PhD student in the CSE Department at UC San Diego. I'm fortunate to be advised by Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker.
I study real-world cybersecurity problems through empirical measurement. My work has looked at ransomware affecting hospitals, large-scale email abuse, automotive security, and other threats to critical infrastructure. I'm a member of the Sysnet and CryptoSec research groups at UC San Diego. My hometown is Bangalore (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು), India.
*Equal contribution.
- 2026. CSE Doctoral Award for Excellence in Service and
Leadership, UC San Diego.
- 2026.
Distinguished Paper Award,
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)
- 2026. Finalist, CSAW Applied Research Competition
- 2024. Finalist, NatSec Hackathon
(Stanford DEFCON and Shield Capital)
- 2021-2022. Recipient of
JN Tata
Scholarship
- Guest lecture, CSE 227 (Graduate Computer Security),
UC San Diego, Oct 13, 2026
- Measuring hospital ransomware attacks
, CAIDA AIMS-5, Feb 2025
- Panel 6: Mobile Device Security
, FTC PrivacyCon, March 2024
- Having a great GSoC as an Open Source Newbie!
, Google Open Source YouTube, Nov 2022
- Program Committee:
SIGMETRICS 2027,
IEEE Euro S&P 2027,
RAID
2026
- CSE Chezbob Bobfather,
UC San Diego (2025-2027)
- CSE Visit Day Coordinator, UC San Diego (2026)
- Allyship Co-Chair, UCSD GradWic (2023-2024)
- VP External, JGSC, UC
San Diego (2021-2023)
I was a teaching assistant for the following courses at UC San Diego: Spring 2023, Intro to Computer Security, Winter 2023, Graduate Operating Systems, Fall 2022, Intro to Computer Security, Spring 2022, Intro to Computer Security
I'm a big advocate for open source and have mentored five students through Google Summer of Code (2020 (1), 2020 (2), 2021, 2024). I was a GSoC student myself in 2019 with the Zulip Open Source Project.
