About Me

Education

Bachelor of Arts & Science (dual degree), 2017

summa cum laude

Philosophy and Computer Science

Master of Philosophy, 2018

Advanced Computer Science

Master of Science (Transferred), 2021

Computer Science & Engineering

PhD (In progress)

Computer Science

Bio

I am a Ph.D. candidate at UC Irvine advised by Professor Sharad Mehrotra where I work on designing database systems for compliance. My research interests lie in data management and Internet of Things with a focus on privacy methods, policies and access control, and security. My Erdős number is 3 (Paul Erdős → Bruce Lee Rothschild → Phokion Kolaitis → Me).  
My research has been supported by a fellowship from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) @ UCI since 2023. This fellowship fosters an active collaboration with Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann and Youri Kaminsky at HPI, Potsdam, Germany. It has also facilitated my numerous visits to HPI in Potsdam, Germany as a guest researcher. In 2022, I was a Noyce Fellow supported by the Irvine Initiative for AI, Law, and Society.
Before joining UCI, I worked for three years (2018-2021) under the supervision of Professor Phokion Kolaitis,  in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I was supported by the Regents Fellowship (2017-2018) and GSRs possible due to this NSF grant. My research was mainly on Computational Social Choice and complexity theory. 
I was a post-graduate student in the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge till July 2018 where I worked on definability and learning on sparse structures under the supervision of Professor Anuj Dawar . 
I graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science as well as Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. My dissertation comprised of two parts - philosophy, and computer science, each supervised by professors in the respective departments. The late Professor G. Aldo Antonelli and Professor Elaine M. Landry supervised the former, and Professor Norman Matloff and Professor David Doty supervised the latter. UC Davis generously supported me for four years with many awards and scholarships including the Provost's Award (2013-2017). I was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research (2017), the Outstanding Student of the Year (2017), and departmental citations by the Computer Science and Philosophy departments.         

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