About me

I am currently a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, working with Prabhanjan Ananth. My research broadly involves studying the potential and limitations of quantum information in enhancing classical cryptography.

I finished my PhD in Computer Science at Portland State University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Fang Song. During my PhD, I also had the wonderful opportunity to intern at NTT Tokyo, under the supervision of Fuyuki Kitagawa and Ryo Nishimaki. More recently, I was an intern at NTT Research, Sunnyvale where I had a great time working with Vipul Goyal.

Prior to that, I was a computer science undergraduate at IIIT Bangalore. During my senior year there, I worked on secure multiparty computation under the supervision of Ashish Choudhury, who introduced me to cryptography and theory research.

You can reach me at nkhlpappu "at" gmail "dot" com.