I am a Lecturer (US equivalent of Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia.

Hiring Ph.D. students! Contact me with your CV if interested.

Research Interests

(Classical and Post-quantum) Cryptography and its applications, including blockchains, cryptocurrencies, fairness in multi-party computation. 

More Background

I was a post-doctoral fellow at NTT Research working with Hoeteck Wee and before that, I was at Carnegie Mellon University working with Elaine Shi. Dominique Schröder was my Ph.D. supervisor at the Chair of Applied Cryptography, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (2016-2021). My Ph.D. dissertation was nominated for GI Dissertationspreis 2021.

I did my Master (M.Sc, 2015-2016) in Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, and my bachelor's (B.Tech, 2011 - 2015) in Computer Science & Engineering, from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. I attended School at DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram, Chennai, (2008-2011) and DAV BHEL School, Ranipet, (1997-2008).