• I am finishing my PhD at WiSeCom Group, UPF Barcelona, advised by Vanesa Daza and an OS Protocol contributor at Waku/Status.im. My PhD is in collaboration with Bell Labs (at present run by Nokia) at Paris, France where I served as a Research Intern for a year and a half. My PhD is supported by Protocol Labs and Marie Curie Fellowship.

• My research interests include Distributed Systems, Blockchains, Security, and, Computer Networks.

• Graduated with a Masters degree (M.E.) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus (BITS Pilani) in 2017. I have worked as a Software Engineer in Protocols(CIFS) group in EMC (now DellEMC) at Pune office for nearly 2 year. I spent a brief time at Linkoping University, Sweden as a Research Assistant under Prof. Andrei Gurtov. I have also worked as a Protocol Researcher at Waku/Status.im in Zug, Switzerland.

Recent Updates

• [June, 2024] Winner at IC3 Blockchain Camp 2024(June) hosted by IC3 at Cornell Tech. NYC Campus.
• [June, 2024] Selected to join the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) cohort 5!
• [April, 2024] Paper accepted in 6th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop DLT 2024
• [February, 2024] Left job at Status.im/Waku, starting to write the PhD thesis.
• [September, 2023] Started as a Distributed Protocol Researcher at Statu.im/Waku in Zug, Switzerland.
• [June, 2023] Winner at IC3 Blockchain Camp 2023(June) hosted by IC3 at Cornell Tech. NYC Campus.
• [April, 2023] Paper accepted in 5th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop DLT 2023
• [December, 2022] Awarded Protocol Labs (Filecoin) Doctoral Fellowship with an annual sum of 60k USD.
• [September, 2022] Won Casper Blockchain Challenge at HackZurich 2022
• [July, 2022] Won BCN Hack Challenge at BCN Hack 2022
• [February, 2022] Paper accepted in Journal of Sensors on Blockchain for Trustworthy Internet of Things
• [December, 2021] Vendor-Independent SDN - Paper accepted at IEEE, SCC 2021 [ Best Paper Award ]
• [November, 2021] Presented work on IoT Honeypot at BlackHat Arsenal, Europe 2021
• [September, 2021] Won Galledia Challenge at HackZurich 2021
• [August, 2021] Successfully completed Google Summer of Code 2021 project developing an IoT honeypot for Honeynet Org.
• [July, 2021] Winner at IC3 Blockchain Camp 2021(July) hosted by IC3 and Cornell University.
• [June, 2021] Selected for Google Summer of Code(GSoC) 2021 in Honeynet Org..
• [May, 2021] Joined WiSeCom Group at UPF Barcelona as a PhD student.
• [October, 2020] Won Student Prize at Copernicus Hackathon held at Science Park in Graz.
• [August, 2020] Paper accepted in Journal of the ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS)
• [July, 2020] 1st Prize at IC3 Blockchain Camp 2020(July-Aug) hosted by IC3 and Cornell University.