Signal Processing and Communications Research Center
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
I am an Assistant Professor at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), associated with the Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC).
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Arizona State University, USA, hosted by Dr. Oliver Kosut and Dr. Lalitha Sankar. I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India, under the guidance of Dr. Pranab Sen and Dr. Vinod M. Prabhakaran, respectively, in 2020. I graduated from IIIT Hyderabad, India, with a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2011.
From 2011 to 2012, I was an Associate Engineer with Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. From July to October 2019, I was a Research Intern with the Blockchain Technology Group at IBM Research, Bengaluru, India.
Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy
Statistical Machine Learning
Secure Multi-Party Computation
Network Information Theory
Recipient of ANRF Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant, 2025
Area Chair (Information Theory), ACM ARCS 2025
Invited Speaker for the BIRS-CMI Workshop (2025) - Machine Learning and Statistics: From Theory to Practice
Organizing Committee Member (Local Chair), JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School 2024
Organizing Committee Member, FSTTCS 2023
Travel Grant from SERB under ITS to attend ISIT 2023