I am an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. I am interested in security, systems, and applied cryptography.
I co-founded the
RISELab, whose aim is to build systems that are secure and intelligent.
I am also a co-founder and the CTO of
PreVeil, a security startup based on my research.
Before joining UC Berkeley, I did a one-year postdoc at ETH
Zürich in the System Security group led by Prof. Srdjan Capkun.
Before that, in 2014, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at
MIT, my thesis being about building practical systems that compute on encrypted data.
My advisor was
Professor Nickolai
Zeldovich, and I was also fortunate to work closely with:
Professor Hari Balakrishnan (in systems),
Professor Shafi Goldwasser,
Professor Yael Kalai, and
Professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan (in cryptography).
I earned my
Masters of Engineering in Computer Science in 2010 and my two Bachelors in
Computer Science and Mathematics in 2009 also from MIT.
My PhD thesis was awarded a
George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral theses. As a professor, I was awarded a
Sloan Research Fellowship,
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship,
Bakar Faculty Fellowship, and I was named as in the list of
35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review.
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