I am a Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern. My research area is computer security and cryptography. My work currently focuses on secure computation protocols, zero-knowledge protocols and verifiable computation, and cryptocurrencies and blockchains. My email is abhi at neu.edu.

Students

My group is accepting PhD students for 2025, please contact me if you are interested. I also welcome undergraduates to find research projects in my group.

Current members in my group are:

My former PhD students include Mona Sergi (2013, now at Google), Chih-hao Shen (2014, now at Google), Ben Kreuter (2018, now at Google), Yash Kondi (2022, postdoc at Aarhus, researcher at Silence labs), Jack Doerner (2022, postdoc at Technion and Brown, assistant professor at U. of Virginia), and Eysa Lee (2023, postdoc at Brown). Former post-doc and then research scientist Ran Cohen is now an assistant professor at IDC Herzliya.

Research

My research is supported by the National Science Foundation and several generous grants from modern companies like Microsoft, Google, Brave, and Meta.