FOSS Bitcoin Developer Grant recipient

• Assisted a student in implementing the Schnorr Adaptor Signature feature for the libsecp256k1-zkp library.• Conducted thorough code reviews to maintain quality and adherence to standards.• Worked with the student to create precise test vectors for rigorous testing.

• Built a Schnorr batch verification interface for libsecp256k1, a cryptography library used by Bitcoin Core.• The implemented interface was 50% faster than the standard verification.• Visualized the speed-up for 5,00,000 digital signatures on a semi-log graph using the GNU plot.

• Added help option for internal benchmarks.• Documented and validated assumptions of field element API.• Reviewed libsecp256k1's implementation of Musig, Musig2, Schnorr signatures, and SHA256.

• Created a web application to automate paired kidney exchanges optimally using PHP, phpMyAdmin, and MySQL.• Collaborated with Nephrologists from Dr. Mehta's Hospital to design medical form and evaluate scoring factors.• Computed the optimal exchanges through integer programming formulation using the cplex library (Python).• Deployed the project on an IITM server and published the code on GitHub, which brought 70+ contributors.

• Analyzed various profiling tools like C11Tester, KLEE, XRay, LLVM Tracer for C/C++ shared memory access• Identified the GenMC tool feature that could be used for studying the LLVM compiler optimizations on shared non-atomic variables