Ananya Appan

I am a fourth year computer science PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am interested, broadly, in cryptography, and specifically, in secure multi-party computation. I am lucky to have two kind and caring co-advisors: David Heath and Ling Ren. I was previously advised by Professor Ashish Choudhury at IIIT Bangalore, to whom I am ever grateful for introducing me to cryptography and research.

What I love the most about research is the absurd assurance I feel when I get the wrong solution, and the complete lack of expectation I have when I finally get the right one :) Seeing the final draft of a paper I have co-authored is also a very special feeling.