Applied cryptographer working on zero-knowledge proof systems. Core contributor at ZkEmail; research on ZK regex (PoPETs 2026). Lately contributing to Jolt, WHIR, and ProveKit. Based in India.

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  • ProveKit

    Core contributor @ World

    Client-side zero-knowledge proving for World ID. Work spans witness solving, challenge soundness, recursive verification, and prover performance.

  • WHIR

    Contributor

    Reed–Solomon proximity testing with super-fast verification. Added batch prove/verify and recursive verification support.

  • zk-regex v2

    Author @ ZkEmail

    Regex-to-circuit compiler (Circom/Noir) with off-circuit NFA traversal and in-circuit proof.

  • Jolt

    Contributor @ a16z crypto

    RISC-V zkVM. Wrote the migration spec for its Fiat-Shamir transcript to spongefish.

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