About
I am a fifth-year PhD student at MIT, where I am advised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan. I’m interested in theoretical computer science, particularly cryptography and its connections to statistics and machine learning. I am supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Before MIT, I was a software engineer at Google (YouTube). Prior to that, I received a BA in mathematics from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, I attended the DIMACS REU (under Eric Allender’s mentorship) and Ken Ono’s number theory REU (under his and John Duncan’s mentorship). I also interned in industry at Facebook, Jane Street, and most recently at NTT Research.
Here is my (likely outdated) CV.
Recent News
- December 2024: I gave a talk at TCC 2024 on one of my papers there.
- October 2024: I briefly visited the Simons Institute for the Alignment, Trust, Watermarking, and Copyright Issues in LLMs workshop.
- June 2024: I attended and gave a talk at STOC 2024.
- April 2024: I briefly visited CMU and gave a talk at the CMU CyLab Crypto Seminar.
- April 2024: I briefly visited the Simons Institute for the Meta Complexity Reunion and gave a talk at Bay Area Crypto Day at Stanford.
Manuscripts
Authors are listed in alphabetical order of last name, as is the convention in my field.
Oblivious Defense in ML Models: Backdoor Removal without Detection
Shafi Goldwasser, Jonathan Shafer, NV, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
[Paper]
Symmetric Perceptrons, Number Partitioning and Lattices
NV, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Publications
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Bilinear Maps and LPN Variants
Seyoon Ragavan, NV, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
TCC 2024
[Paper]
Sparse Linear Regression and Lattice Problems
Aparna Gupte, NV, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
TCC 2024
[Paper]
Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead
Elette Boyle, Ilan Komargodski, NV
STOC 2024
[ePrint] [ECCC] [Video at CMU]
MacORAMa: Optimal Oblivious RAM with Integrity
Surya Mathialagan, NV
Crypto 2023
[Paper]
Continuous LWE is as Hard as LWE & Applications to Learning Gaussian Mixtures
Aparna Gupte, NV, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
FOCS 2022
[arXiv] [ePrint] [Video at CMU] [Video at FOCS] [Video at Simons]
Average-case Hardness of NP and PH from Worst-case Fine-grained Assumptions
Lijie Chen, Shuichi Hirahara, NV
ITCS 2022
[Paper] [Video]
The Non-hardness of Approximating Circuit Size
Eric Allender, Rahul Ilango, NV
CSR 2019
Invited to Special Issue of Theory of Computing Systems
[Paper]
Moonshine for All Finite Groups
Samuel DeHority, Xavier Gonzalez, NV, Roger Van Peski
Research in the Mathematical Sciences
[Paper]