About Me

I am a second-year PhD student in the Theory of Computation Group at MIT, where I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Yael Tauman Kalai.

Before this, I did my BSc.(Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute. During my undergrad, I was lucky enough to be advised by Prahladh Harsha and Mrinal Kumar. I also spent summer 2024 in at IRIF Paris working under David Saulpic on clustering algorithms. I will be spending summer 2026 interning with Guy Rothblum at Apple’s New York offices.

Research Interests

My main interest is in error correction, proof systems, and more generally theoretical CS. I tend to enjoy most problems with flavours of combinatorics, algebra and randomization.

Publications:

All authors are in alphabetical order of last name.

Preprints

Improved analysis of list-decodability of random linear codes: It’s all about counting constraints
with Venkatesan Guruswami
[ECCC]
Explicit Constant-Alphabet Subspace Design Codes
with Venkatesan Guruswami and Jun-Ting (Tim) Hsieh
[ECCC] [ArXiV]
Structure Theorems (and Fast Algorithms) for List Recovery of Subspace-Design Codes
with Venkatesan Guruswami
[ECCC] [ArXiV]
Fast list-recovery of univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes
with Prahladh Harsha, Mrinal Kumar, and Ashutosh Shankar
[ECCC] [ArXiV]

2026

Optimal Proximity Gaps for Subspace-Design Codes and (Random) Reed-Solomon Codes
with Venkatesan Guruswami
STOC 2026, Salt Lake City [ECCC] [ePrint] [Ethproofs call talk by Venkat] [Talk at TIFR]

2025

Efficiently Batching Unambiguous Interactive Proofs
with Bonnie Berger, Matthew Hong, and Yael Kalai.
FOCS 2025, Sydney [ECCC] [ArXiV] [FOCS Video by Matt]

2024

Fast list-decoding of univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes
with Prahladh Harsha, Mrinal Kumar, and Ashutosh Shankar
FOCS 2024, Chicago [ECCC] [ArXiV] [Simons Talk by Prahladh]

Service:

Subreviewed for STOC, FOCS, CCC, RANDOM and ACM Transcations on Algorithms.

News

[May 2026 - August 2026]: Interning at Apple New York with Guy Rothblum.
[January 2026]: Visiting Chennai Mathematical Institute, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
[December 2025]: I will be at FOCS 2025 in Sydney!
[December 2025]: Speaking at the Proofs and Codes Workshop at Cornell Tech.
[Summer 2025]: Visited the Simons Institute for the Cryptography program.
[January 2025]: Attended the Oberwolfach workshop on Cryptography.
[Sept. 2024]: Started my PhD at MIT!
[July 2024]: Participated in IMO 2024 as the Observer A for the Indian team. This was our best ever performance with country rank 4 and 4 gold medals. India at IMO 2024
[June 2024] Interned at IRIF in Paris under David Saulpic and Frédéric Magniez
[May 2024] Finished my undergrad program at CMI.
[May 2023] Started my summer internship at TIFR under Prof. Prahladh Harsha.
[Apr. 2023] Participated in EGMO 2023 as the Deputy Leader for the Indian team. India at EGMO 2023
[Sept. 2021] Started my undergraduate studies at CMI.
[July 2021] Represented India at IMO 2021.

Olympiad and Outreach

Indian Mathematical Olympiads: I am currently also quite involved with Mathematical Olympiads in India. I help with team training for IMO and EGMO, problem selection, problem proposing and organizing selection camps from the national stage. If you wish to help or support the EGMO program in India, proposing or teaching, please feel free to reach out!
Outreach: I am also interested in understanding and improving school education in India especially in Mathematics and Computer Science. I want to understand how logical reasoning, puzzle solving and other aspects of problem solving can be inculcated into students at the grassroots level. I am also interested in increasing opportunities, awareness and recogonition for students who demonstrate extraordinary interest or capability in STEM fields.

I would be extremely interested in any opportunities to work on more grassroots’ level for Mathematics education, Computational and Logical Thinking, Problem Solving etc. If you have any such opportunities where my experience would be useful, please feel free to reach out. For a list of activities I have been involved in, please reach out to me via email.

Talks and Honors:

Please check my cv.

– Website updated May 2026