About me

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I am a computer architect working at the intersection of hardware-software co-design, privacy, and AI systems. My work spans formal privacy models, secure and homomorphic computation, architecture modeling and agile hardware tooling, and privacy-preserving computer vision for augmented reality, with publications in top venues including ISCA, ASPLOS, PLDI, FPL, and TMLR.

Most recently, I was a consultant at the Allen Institute, where I co-developed neural tracing for mechanistic interpretability of LLMs and bio-foundation models. Before that, I was a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research, where I worked on energy-efficient system design for AR/smart glasses, system-level power modeling for wearable devices, and privacy research for extended reality.

I received my PhD from UC Santa Barbara, where I worked with Prof. Tim Sherwood on the design of private computer systems. I am a Rising Stars in EECS alumna, my SoK on hardware-software-security codesign was cited in the US National Strategy on Microelectronics Research, and trace wringing was recognized as an IEEE Micro Top Pick.

📰 News

  • [2026] Our paper "The Need for Computational Pluralism" was accepted at the Workshop on Ethical Systems and Architecture Design (HotEthics) 2026!
  • [September 2025] I had the chance to represent CRA and Washington State at CRA Congressional Visit Day in Washington, D.C.
  • [July 2025] I was invited to participate in the CCC Future of AI Research in Industry workshop.
  • [June 2025] I gave a talk on "Performance, Power, and Privacy: Codesign Strategies for Always-On Wearables" at Washington State University, Pullman.
  • [May 2025] I was invited to participate in the CCC Computing Futures Symposium.
  • [May 2025] I gave a talk on "Privacy and Security in the age of Metaverse" at Washington State University, Everett.

🎓 Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation and Electronics
    Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

🏆 Awards and Honors

  • [2024] Our paper (HASP'20) appears in the United States National Strategy on Microelectronics Research
  • [2021] UCSB Grad Slam Runner-up: "Privacy through Wringing"
  • [2020] Rising Stars in EECS, UC Berkeley
  • [2020] IEEE Micro Top Pick: "Trace Wringing for Program Trace Privacy"
  • [2020] UCSB Graduate Division's Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award
  • [2020] UCSB Department of Computer Science Outstanding Graduate Student Award
  • [2015] Second Place Winner, NXP Embedded Design Challenge