Projects!

2021

Foundations of Blockchain

• Handwritten Course Notes for course by Professor Tim Roughgarden

• Final Project - Privacy when Everyone is Watching: Privacy on the Blockchain. Co-authored with Nilaksh Agarwal.

  • A medium-depth dive into zk-SNARKs and into privacy coins.

Neural Networks Course

• Final Project - Improvements and Analysis of Private Ensemble-Based Federated Learning. (available upon requests)
  • An analysis of ensemble-based federated learning like PATE and CaPC. I studied the use of reputation-based weighting for improved robustness, and conducted a security analysis of the trust assumptions in ensemble-based federated learning.

Policy for Privacy Technology

• Course by Professor Rachel Cummings
• Final Project
  • An investigation of the interplay of Know-Your-Customer (KYC) laws, and privacy-coins on the blockchain.
• MPC explainer
  • An explainer document on a form of “Secure Multi-Party Computation” (MPC); what it is, why it’s useful, and how it can be used. Co-written with Sofia Calatrava.

2020

Arxiv Crawler

I wanted to applied to academic programs, but didn’t know a lot about what different academics do, and who is related to whom. So I wrote a basic crawler to scrape arxiv and interactively visualize related authors. Here is the github link.

2018

Raspberry PI IOT : smart home project

To truly embrace living in NYC, I rented an apartment where my room did not have a window. I quickly realized that I hated this (obviously), and in order to cope, I made my Raspberry Pi control my sound and lights system to mimic the sun. Here is the github link.

2017

Semantics Review paper

For a graduate course Semantics course (with professor Anna Szabolsci) I wrote a review paper of the use of Natural Logic in Natural Language Inference (NLI). Here’s my review paper and my presentation.

Physics Simulations:

As part of my physics education, I would regularly make CS simulations of physics problems, some of which can be found on my github.