Research Interests
I am a graduate student in the Theory of Computation Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and a member of the Theory of Distributed Systems Group. My adviser is Nancy Lynch.
I study algorithms and lower bounds for wireless ad hoc networks. Specifically, I am interested in achieving reliable and secure coordination in this inherently non-reliable and non-secure environment. My recent work considers fundamental limitations on wireless coordination in the presence of malicious adversaries, as well as provably secure cryptographic primitives that are suitable for a resource-constrained setting. In addition, I work with the TDS group's Virtual Infrastructure Project, which focuses on middleware layers for mobile ad hoc networks. I also work on classic problems in distributed computing, such as the weakest failure detector to solve any decision problem.
