Biography

I am currently on the academic job market. Please feel free to reach out, if you feel that I would be an appropriate fit for your research group or if you need any additional information.

Hi, I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Florida where I work with Dr. Swarup Bhunia. I am affliated with the Warren B Nelms Institute at the Electrical Engineering Department. I did my Ph.D at IIT Madras, where I was advised by Dr. V. Kamakoti. I am affiliated with RISE Lab in the Computer Science Department.

Research Overview

We live in a connected world made possible by seamless interactions of hundreds to thousands of digital devices. These interactions present a unique challenge from a security standpoint. Today’s devices are no longer monolithic entities but comprise several moving parts at various abstractions, such as software, OS, Kernel, and hardware interacting seamlessly to perform complex tasks.

The security of interactions, devices, and most importantly integrity of system/data therein, relies on ALL these components being trustworthy. My research aims to achieve affordable security in an untrusted, even untrustworthy, ecosystem consisting of multiple components interacting within resource constraints at each abstraction such as storage, computation, and energy consumption for these devices?” Such themes are instrumental in IoT, AI applications and even in data centers where allocating additional resources (memory, power, area) for security is a challenge.

I wish to continue contributing to the following research areas:
• Hardware Security and Trust: Trustworthy Hardware for AI and IoT applications.

• Microarchitectural Security: Hardware-Software co-design for mitigating microarchitectural attacks on embedded devices.

• CAD for Security: Developing metrics and algorithms for quantifying and mitigating various supply chain threats for 2.5D/3D ICs.

• CAD for VLSI: AI-driven techniques for Digital Design Automation.

Apart from my research activities, I like reading books, building Legos, and photography.