About Me

Photo courtesy Vimalkumar

I am a third year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. I am broadly interested in cryptography, security, and theoretical computer science. I work with Prof. Dan Boneh.

I graduated from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Madras with a Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science with a minor in Physics in July 2009.


Publications and Manuscripts

Privately Identifying Location Hotspots
With Dan Boneh, Peter Chien
(under submission)
[pdf]

Algebraic Pseudorandom Functions with Improved Efficiency from the Augmented Cascade
With Dan Boneh, Hart Montgomery
ACM CCS 2010
[eprint]  [pdf]  [slides/keynote]  [slides/pdf]

Lower Bounds for Round and Communication Complexities of Unconditional Verifiable Secret Sharing
With Srivatsan Narayanan, Pandu Rangan
[pdf]

Obfuscating Straight Line Arithmetic Programs
With Srivatsan Narayanan, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
ACM DRM 2009
[pdf]  [slides]

A short write-up on Toda's theorem
(one of my favorite results in complexity theory)
Project report for CS254
[tex]  [pdf]