About Me
I'm a second-year PhD student at Stanford studying applied cryptography under Professor Emma Dauterman. My research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).
I did my undergrad in Mathematics and EECS at UC Berkeley.
Email: [firstlast] @ stanford.edu
Publications
Acumen: A Platform for Encrypted and Accountable Collaborative Editing
Ryan Cottone, Darya Kaviani, Conor Power, Will Giorza, Evelyn Koo, Natacha Crooks, Raluca Popa
OSDI 2026
ZEBRA: SNARK-based Anonymous Credentials for Practical, Private and Accountable On-chain Access Control
Deevashwer Rathee, Guru Vamsi Policharla, Tiancheng Xie, Ryan Cottone, Dawn Song
Cryptology ePrint Archive
Awards
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship (2025–2026)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley (2025)
Teaching
- CS 161 (Computer Security), UC Berkeley: Head TA, 2023–2025; TA, Spring 2023
Experience
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Cybersecurity Research Intern (2024)
- Verkada, Security Software Engineering Intern (2023)
- NVIDIA, Security Software Engineering Intern (2022)