Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science
(expected 2027)
University of California, San Diego
M.S. in Computer Science
(2021 - 2025)
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. in Computer Science
(expected 2027)
University of California, San Diego
M.S. in Computer Science
(2021 - 2025)
University of California, San Diego
Awards:
- Finalists, NatSec Hackathon 2024 (Stanford DEFCON and Shield Capital)
- Receipent of JN Tata Scholarship (2021 - 2022) from The JN Tata Endowment
- Finalists, NatSec Hackathon 2024 (Stanford DEFCON and Shield Capital)
- Receipent of JN Tata Scholarship (2021 - 2022) from The JN Tata Endowment
More personal:
Photos captured by me across the US
Photos captured by me across the US
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 research broadly focuses on improving security and privacy through empirical measurements. I'm a part of the Sysnet and CryptoSec research groups. My hometown is Bangalore (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು), India.
Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science
(expected 2027)
University of California, San Diego M.S. in Computer Science
(2021 - 2025)
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. in Computer Science
(expected 2027)
University of California, San Diego M.S. in Computer Science
(2021 - 2025)
University of California, San Diego
Recent Publications
Paper under embargo
Sumanth Rao, Ye Shu, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Enze Liu.
To appear at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, May 2026
Sumanth Rao, Ye Shu, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Enze Liu.
To appear at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, May 2026
Paper under embargo
Jerry Yu*, Yibo Wei*, Sumanth Rao, Mohak Vaswani, Jefferson Chien, Christian Dameff, Nishant Bhaskar, Aaron Schulman.
To appear at USENIX Security, Baltimore, MD, August 2026
Jerry Yu*, Yibo Wei*, Sumanth Rao, Mohak Vaswani, Jefferson Chien, Christian Dameff, Nishant Bhaskar, Aaron Schulman.
To appear at USENIX Security, Baltimore, MD, August 2026
Patient Care Technology
Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike
Outage
Jeffrey L. Tully*, Sumanth Rao*, Isabel Straw, Rodney A. Gabriel, Chris Longhurst, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Christian J. Dameff.
JAMA Network Open, July 2025
Jeffrey L. Tully*, Sumanth Rao*, Isabel Straw, Rodney A. Gabriel, Chris Longhurst, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Christian J. Dameff.
JAMA Network Open, July 2025
Unfiltered:
Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses
Sumanth Rao, Enze Liu, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage.
ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore, May 2024
Sumanth Rao, Enze Liu, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage.
ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore, May 2024
See all publications.
Industry Experience
Google
Software Engineering Intern (Jun 2022 - Sep 2022)
Virtual Cluster, Google Cloud Platforms. Improved user experience when spawning new Borg clusters.
Software Engineering Intern (Jun 2022 - Sep 2022)
Virtual Cluster, Google Cloud Platforms. Improved user experience when spawning new Borg clusters.
Citrix
Software Engineer (Aug 2020 - Aug 2021)
Citrix Licensing team. Designed a Docker-based automation framework deployed via a hybrid cloud model.
Software Engineer (Aug 2020 - Aug 2021)
Citrix Licensing team. Designed a Docker-based automation framework deployed via a hybrid cloud model.
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