Hello! I am a cybersecurity researcher working at the intersection of policy and emerging technologies. I also lead the inventorying workstream for the Post-Quantum Cryptography center at Comcast. I am currently a Public Policy Researcher in the Comcast Cyber Security team (led by the amazing Dr. Vaibhav Garg). I was previously working in the same team as a Privacy Engineer, helping build privacy threat modeling processes within the organization (and also open-sourcing them!). I hold a PhD in Security Informatics from Indiana University Bloomington where I worked on privacy-preserving technologies in conversational platforms with Professor L. Jean Camp. My research interests are in inclusive and usable privacy.

I have been a Google Public Policy fellow in cybersecurity policy and a co-lead researcher in a National Science Foundation multi-year investigation into IoT privacy. I have also been involved in teaching, research, and service at Indiana University Bloomington.

I also hold a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal Univerity of Technology, where I got introduced to cryptography through Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Outside of work, I like traveling (with lots of hiking) and reading manga.

News!

  • If you are at BSides Las Vegas 2025, would love if you can join us for the workshop on cybersecurity policy that Vaibhav and I will be running! Come chat with us, participate, co-host.

  • Finally updated this page! I am on CSCC and SCTE New England board. One of the new things we are kicking off this year is the New England chapter for the Internet Society. Please ping me at the email address below if you would like to be involved.

  • Looking for new privacy engineering tools? Learning how to conduct privacy threat models? Here is our new open-source framework to help you get started: MAP.

  • The European EICC 2023 Workshop on Child Online Safety and Harms is now accepting submissions till Feb 17! It is chaired by Virginia Franqueira, Tatiana Ringenberg, and me! If your work is in child safety, education, and outreach, we highly encourage you to submit here.