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Education

  • 2021-26
    PhD in Computer Science
    Northeastern University, Boston, USA
    • Thesis - Impact of Poisoning attacks on Machine Learning Models
    • Advisor - Dr. Alina Oprea
    • 🏆 Graduate Research Award
  • 2017-20
    Masters in Computer Science
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
    • Thesis - Privacy Preserving Machine Learning via Multi-party Computation
    • Advisor - Dr. Arpita Patra
    • 🏆 Awarded MHRD Scholarship for 2.5 years

Work Experience

  • Jul 24 - Apr 25
    Student Researcher (includes part-time)
    Google DeepMind, London, UK
    • Understanding Injection and Propagation of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • SEP 20 - APR 21
    Data Scientist
    Myntra, India
    • Building user affinities for personalized recommender systems
  • MAY 20 - JUL 20
    Research Intern
    IBM Research, India
    • Efficient training of private Deep Learning (DL) models
  • JAN 20 - APR 20
    Research Intern
    Walmart Labs, India
    • Data poisoning attacks against differentially private recommender systems
  • MAY 18 - JUL 18
    Research Intern
    Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    • Implementing efficient MPC primitives and protocols.

Talks

  • Nov 24
    Propagation of Adversarial Bias to Distilled Language Models
    Google DeepMind
    • London, UK
  • Sep 24
    Phantom: General Trigger Attacks on Retrieval Augmented Language Generation
    Google DeepMind
    • Mountain view, USA
  • MAY 23
    SNAP: Efficient Extraction of Private Properties with Poisoning
    44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
    • San Francisco, USA
  • FEB 23
    SafeNet: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Ensembles in Collaborative Learning
    1st IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning
    • Raleigh, USA
  • NOV 20
    Greenwoods - A Practical Random Forest Framework for Private Training and Prediction
    NeurIPS Workshop
  • JUL 20
    FLASH - Fast and Robust Framework for Privacy-preserving Machine Learning
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
  • JAN 20
    Privacy Preserving Machine Learning via Multi-party Computation
    Walmart Labs
  • NOV 19
    ASTRA - High Throughput 3PC over Rings with Application to Secure Prediction
    ACM Conference on Cloud Computing Security Workshop (ACM CCSW)