Publications

Conference papers

Authenticated private information retrieval
USENIX Security Symposium, August 2023

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Replicated state machines without replicated execution
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2020

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CHAINIAC: Proactive software-update transparency via collectively signed skipchains and verified builds
USENIX Security Symposium, August 2017

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Journal articles

Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files and communication with PURBs
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Vol. 2019, No. 4, July 2019

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Axiom - DTLS-based secure IoT group communication
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 16(3), 66, April 2017

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Manuscripts

Crux: Locality-Preserving Distributed Services
arXiv:1405.0637, May 2018

Preprint

Talks

Integrity and Metadata Protection in Data Retrieval
Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication with PURBs
CHAINIAC: Proactive Software-Update Transparency via Collectively Signed Skipchains and Verified Builds

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
May 2023 – Present
New York, US

Postdoctoral Associate

G2 lab, Columbia University & The New York Genome Center

Privacy-preserving sharing and analysis of genomics data. Advisor: Gamze Gürsoy.
 
 
 
 
 
March 2022 – April 2023
New York, US

Postdoctoral Associate

Cornell Tech, Cornell University

Metadata-hiding communication. Advisor: Vitaly Shmatikov.
 
 
 
 
 
August 2019 – October 2019
Cambridge, UK

Research Intern

Confidential Computing Group, Microsoft Research

Information-flow control in smart contracts. Advisor: Santiago Zanella-Beguelin.
 
 
 
 
 
August 2018 – November 2018
Redmond, US

Research Intern

Systems Security and Privacy Group, Microsoft Research

Improving scalability of replicated state machines and, in particular, smart contracts in Ethereum using verifiable computation. Advisor: Srinath Setty.
 
 
 
 
 
January 2015 – June 2015
Stockholm, Sweden

External Master’s Thesis

Security Lab, RISE Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Securing group communication in the Internet-of-Things. Advisors: Marco Tiloca and Shahid Raza.
 
 
 
 
 
June 2014 – August 2014
Lausanne, Switzerland

Research Intern

Laboratory for cryptologic algorithms, EPFL

Integer factorization and analysis of public-key ecosystem weaknesses. Advisor: Arjen Lenstra.

Teaching

I have supervised four master’s theses, three master’s and two bachelor’s semester projects, and served as a teaching assistant for the following courses at EPFL:

  • CS-438: Decentralized systems engineering (fall 2017, 2018, 2020)
  • CS-119: Information, computation and communication (spring 2020)
  • CS-234: Technologies of societal self-organization (fall 2019)
  • COM-402: Information security and privacy (spring 2017, 2018)
  • MATH-101(e): Analysis I (fall 2016)
  • COM-102: Advanced information, computation, communication II (spring 2016)

Service

I have served on the program committee or the editorial board of the following conferences, journals and workshops:

I also have been an external reviewer and a sub-reviewer for:

Awards

The Doc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2020) (declined)

EPFL EDIC Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (2015)

The Swedish Institute Scholarship (2013 - 2015)

Triple Scholar of Vladimir Potanin Fellowship Program (2009, 2011, 2012)