I am a second year master's student in Computer Science at Brown University. I am interested in cryptography and security, machine learning, data science, and everything at their intersection. I have been taking courses such as Deep Learning (CS1470), Introduction to Cryptography and Computer Security (CS1510), Computer Vision (CS1430), and Data Science (CS1951-A) to understand these topics in depth. I am also the Head TA for the first iteration of the course 'Introduction to Computer Security' (CS1880) at Brown University.
Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Prof. Mahavir Jhawar. For my thesis, I studied and implemented privacy-preserving linear regression in two frameworks, namely, SecureML(2017) in the 2-server setting and BLAZE(2020) in the 3-server setting. For more information, check the publications section below.
In addition to this, I have been working with Prof. Debayan Gupta on privacy-preserving neural networks and privacy-preserving federated learning. I have also been studying attacks and attack mitigation in Bitcoin under Prof. Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University, Turkey.
Ramachandran, P., Jhawar M. (2021). 'Privacy-Preserving Linear Regression: Efficient Multiplication Protocols in 2-party and 3-party Settings'. Capstone Thesis. Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.
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Conference Papers
[Accepted at PPAI workshop, AAAI 2022] More, Y., Ramachandran, P., Panda, P., Mondal, A., Gupta, D. (2022). 'SCOTCH: : An Efficient Secure-Computation Framework for Secure Aggregation and Applications'.
Ramachandran, P., Agarwal, S., Shah, A., Mondal, A., Gupta, D. (2021). 'S++: A Fast and Deployable Secure-Computation Framework for Privacy-Preserving Neural Network Training'. Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2021.
Agrawal, N.*, Prashanthi, R.*, Biçer, O., & Küpçü, A. (2020). 'BlockSim-Net: A Network Based Blockchain Simulator'. BAŞARIM 2020: National High Performance Computing Conference. Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey, 8-9 October 2020.
President, Women in Computing (2020-21)| Annual Report | Received Best Academic Society (2020-21) and Most Enterprising Society (2020-21) awards under my leadership | { Ashoka University}