I am a Cryptographer. I am passionate about Cryptography and its applications to cybersecurity. Solving problems, in general, rivets me. My background is theoretical cryptography and I am interested in solving real-world cybersecurity problems using the rigor of cryptography.
My work. Currently, I am a Senior Cryptography Architect at Intertrust Technologies. I am extremely excited to be a part of the organization, where I get to collaborate with phenomenally smart people, like Professor Robert Tarjan – a Turing award winner (enough said!) and David Maher. I report to David Maher, our CTO. I work on designing stronger defenses to existing products and designing/developing/deploying new security products. Before this, I was a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC, another place well-known to house extremely smart scientists.
Education. I obtained my PhD in theoretical cryptography at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Amit Sahai, a world-renowned cryptographer. I was also fortunate to work with top researchers from Microsoft Research Redmond, Microsoft Research India, and University of Maryland. My schooling and upbringing was in a small town in India, called Davanagere. Here is a list of my academic papers on exciting cryptography projects, such as, designing hash functions secure in practical scenarios and designing the first fully-secure multi-party key exchange protocol.