I am advised by Prof. David Cash. Prior to joining UChicago, I was a PhD student at Rutgers University until 2018.
I completed my B.Tech in CSE from IIIT-Delhi in 2016, where I was advised by Prof. Donghoon Chang and Prof. Somitra Sanadhya. I mostly worked on Cryptanalysis under their esteemed guidance.
My research interests broadly include cryptography and related areas of security and theoretical computer science.
Time-Space Tradeoffs and Short Collisions in Merkle-Damgård Hash Functions
Akshima, David Cash, Andrew Drucker, Hoeteck Wee
CRYPTO 2020 [eprint]
Full Database Reconstruction in Two Dimensions
Francesca Falzon*, Evangelia Anna Markatou*, Akshima, David Cash, Adam Rivkin, Jesse Stern, Roberto Tamassia
CCS 2020 [paper]
Generation of Secure and Reliable Honeywords, Preventing False Detection
Akshima, Donghoon Chang, Aarushi Goel, Sweta Mishra and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2018 [pdf]
Single Key Recovery Attacks on 9-Round Kalyna-128/256 and Kalyna-256/512
Akshima, Donghoon Chang, Mohona Ghosh, Aarushi Goel and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya
ICISC 2015 [eprint]
Improved Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on 7 and 8-Round ARIA-192 and ARIA-256
Akshima, Donghoon Chang, Mohona Ghosh, Aarushi Goel and Somitra Kumar Sanadhya
INDOCRYPT 2015 [pdf]
Introduction to Cryptography
Teaching Assistant - Autumn 2020
Algorithms
Teaching Assistant - Spring 2020
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Teaching Assistant - Winter 2020
Discrete Structures
Teaching Assistant - Spring 2017
Algorithms
Teaching Assistant - Fall 2016