For the latest updates visit my site https://ladnir.github.io/I am a research scientist at Visa Research where I work on Cryptography and Secure Computation. I received my Ph.D. under my adviser Dr. Mike Rosulek at Oregon State University. My primary interest is on the development of efficient methods for computing on encrypted data.AboutI began my career in cryptography at Oregon State University in 2015 with the goal of advancing the field of cryptography to meet real world constraints. Most notably is the notion of being able to compute on encrypted data and the area of research known as Secure Computation:A group of distrusting parties wishes to compute a function on their private data sets. The parties should learn the output of the function (correctness) and no additional information about the data sets (privacy).The potential of this technology captured my imagination in 2014 during the completion of my undergraduate in Computer Science at Oregon State University.Since then I have worked on several projects in this area. Most notably has been the development of a highly efficient protocol for performing Secure Computation and a prototype for securely outsourcing a database to a distrusted cloud provider.I view my research as part of the solution to our most challenging privacy issues. In particular, when strong privacy concerns inhibit the utility of data, e.g. medical data. I am interested in overcoming this trade-off.I have also worked at Boeing & Digimarc on security-related projects, and more recently a consultant at Microsoft Research where I work on real-world projects involving Secure Computation.