I am a first year PhD student at IIT Bombay  I am jointly advised by Prof. Sruthi Sekar  and  Prof. Chethan Kamath . My research focuses on designing efficient, special-purpose Zero Knowledge (ZK) protocols for real-world applications, addressing scalability challenges. I spent a year at Supra Research  as a Research Assistant working on exciting problems. I was guided by Pratik Sarkar and Pratyay Mukherjee. Prior to that I did my M.tech in Cryptology and Security from ISI, Kolkata. I spent one semester at COSIC, KU Leuven working on my master thesis under the guidance of Prof. Bart Preneel and Dave Singelée .