Akshaya Kumar

Akshaya Kumar

PhD Student (she/her)

School of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Georgia Tech

Biography

I am a a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy where I am advised by Prof. Joseph Jaeger. My interests include cryptography, information security, and generally, theoretical computer science. My most recent work focuses on provable security in the memory-aware setting. I am a part of The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), an initiative that promotes women in mathematics.

Previously, I was an undergraduate student at NIT Calicut where I was introduced to information security and cryptography by Prof. Vinod Pathari.

Interests
  • Cryptography
  • Information Security
  • Theoretical Computer Science
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science (ongoing)

    Georgia Tech

  • BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020

    National Institute of Technology Calicut

Publications

(2024). Symmetric Signcryption and E2EE Group Messaging in Keybase. Eurocrypt 2024.

(2022). Memory-Tight Multi-Challenge Security of Public-Key Encryption. Asiacrypt 2022.

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Interests

I like to draw.

Here are some of my sketches from Inktober 2019, Inktober 2022, and some others picked at random. I use the pseudonym Athena sometimes.

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