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 also a part of the Sysnet and CryptoSec research groups. My hometown is Bangalore (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು), India.
- 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
- Academic Integrity Review Board (AIRB), UC San Diego
(2026-2027)
- GradWIC Board Member, UCSD Graduate Women in Computing
(2024).
- [May 2026] IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(Oakland), Lost in Translation: Text Message Spoofing
via Email
- [Feb 2025] CAIDA AIMS-5, Measuring hospital ransomware Attacks
- [May 2024] WWW'24, Unfiltered: Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses
- [March 2024] FTC PrivacyCon 2024, Panel 6: Mobile Device Security
- [Nov 2022] Google Open Source YouTube, Having a great GSoC as an Open Source Newbie!
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.