Apoorvaa Deshpande
Brief BiographyWelcome to my homepage! I am a fifth year graduate student at Brown University, Department of Computer Science, advised by Prof. Anna Lysyankaya. I am also a visiting student at CSAIL, MIT working with Yael Kalai. I work in the area of cryptography; I am interested in fundamental cryptographic primitives such as zero-knowledge proofs and arguments, and their applications to the blockchain space. In the summer of 2018, I had an amazing time as an intern at Microsoft Research, New England with Yael Kalai. I spent the summer of 2017 in FACT Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel working with Alon Rosen and Elette Boyle. In the summer of 2015, I had the great opportunity to attend the Cryptography Program at the Simon's Institute for the Theory of Computing. Before Brown University, I completed my B.E (Hons) Computer Science + M.Sc (Hons) Mathematics from BITS Pilani University in 2013. I also spent a year at Microsoft Research India as a Research Fellow, where I worked with Raghav Bhaskar and Prasad Naldurg in security and privacy. Along with computer science and research, an integral part of my life is my music. More about it here. Recent NewsI was selected as one of the 12 graduate students across Brown University to speak at the annual event called Research Matters. For this event, I delivered a TED-style talk about my research.Publications/Manuscripts
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