MS student @
Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Email: svrao AT ucsd DOT edu
Address: EBU3B 3142, 9500 Gilman Dr. #0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
I am a MS candidate at the University of California - San Diego in the Computer Science and Engineering department.
I am broadly interested in efforts to improve security and privacy in technology systems.
At UC San Diego, my master's thesis research is advised by Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker, and I am a member of the SysNet research group.
In my spare time, I keep busy with several hobbies - hiking, photography, and jogging to name a few. My hometown is Bengaluru, India.
Working on using empirical methods to measure the deployment of email filtering services and how they can be bypassed by an adversary - as a part of my master's thesis research (September 2022 - Present).
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Master's degree, Computer Science. University of California, San Diego.
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023.
Specialization in Computer Systems |
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Bachelor's degree, Computer Science. PES University. May 2016 - Jul 2020.
Specialization in Data Science |
Google, San Francisco Software Engineering Intern in Virtual Cluster team at Google Cloud, developing ways to improve the user experience when spawning new Borg clusters (Google's Cluster Manager). Jun 2022 - Sep 2022.
Citrix, Bangalore Software Engineer in the Citrix Licensing team - designing a microservice based (Docker) test automation framework in a hybrid cloud model (Azure Cloud and Citrix's Xen Hypervisors). Aug 2020 - Aug 2021.
Teaching Assistant CSE 221: Graduate Operating Systems, UC San Diego - Winter 2023,
Teaching Assistant CSE 127: Introduction to Computer Security, UC San Diego - Fall 2022, Spring 2022.
JN Tata Endowment Scholarship Recipient of the JNTE Scholarship for my graduate studies in Computer Science at UC San Diego. 2021 - 2022.
Prof. C N R Rao Merit Scholarship Recipient of Prof. C N R Rao Merit Scholarship for top performers, for all semesters of my undergraduate studies at PES University. 2016 - 2020.
All my contributions are open sourced and most of them are available below.
VP External. Jacobs Student Graduate Council. 2021 - 2022.
Seargent at arms. Citrix Orators Toastmasters Club. 2020 - 2021.
I love going hiking! Some of my favourite himalayan hikes/treks have been - Hampta Pass, Bharmatal , Valley Of Flowers. Recently, I've ventured on some beautiful hikes in San Diego - Strawberry Junction on Mt San Jacinto , Anza Borrego Desert Hike, Fortuna Mtn Trail, Cowles Mountain, Torrey Pines - to name a few. My other hobbies include occasionally playing badminton and basketball. I love playing the Piano - and my favorite piece right now is this. I also love photography - checkout some of my clicks or my instagram page @say__cheeesee!