I am an assistant professor at Lund University. I received my Ph.D. from Purdue University under the supervision of Aniket Kate. Then I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the COSIC Privacy Group at KU Leuven.
My research goal centers around solving people-centric privacy problems based on cryptographic techniques and making privacy easily achievable for everyone. My research methodology takes a formal approach towards building privacy preserving systems. With a goal to achieve cryptography-like security guarantees, I take the following approach towards building privacy-preserving systems: (i) identify and propose security definitions that translates to strong privacy guarantees in practice based on rigorous theoretical analysis; (ii) analyze the fundamental requirements to achieve strong guarantees; (iii) based on those analyses, propose more efficient and scalable designs that are deployable in a real-world scenario, accompanied by a rigorous security analysis.
My current research efforts attempt to solve problems related to following privacy related domains:
- building and analyzing anonymous communication systems;
- building privacy preserving techniques for storage and computation outsourcing based on FHE;
- formal evaluation of censorship circumvent systems.