Portrait of Ojaswi Acharya

Ojaswi Acharya

PhD Candidate, Cryptography — UMass Amherst

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About

I am a PhD candidate in the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst, advised by Adam O’Neill and affiliated with the Cryptography Lab. Previously, I completed my undergraduate degree at Smith College.

My research interests lie within the field of Cryptography including functional encryption, secure aggregation and threshold signatures.

Selected Publications

Non-Interactive Verifiable Aggregation
O. Acharya, S. Biswas, W. Feng, A. O’Neill, A. Yerukhimovich — PETS 2025
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Access-Controlled Inner-Product Function-Revealing Encryption
O. Acharya, W. Feng, R. Langrehr, A. O’Neill — Cryptology ePrint Archive
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Universal Vector Commitments
O. Acharya, F. Baldimtsi, S. D. Gordon, D. McVicker, A. Yadav — SCN 2024
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Invited Talks

  • Dec 2024 — Non-Interactive Verifiable Aggregation (NIVA), AlgoCrypt Seminar, JPMorgan Chase Research.
  • Apr 2024 — Inner Product Function Revealing Encryption, Crypto Research Seminar, MongoDB.
  • Jun 2023 — DEANN: Outsourcing Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via IP-FRE, Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich.

Experience

  • 2025 — Summer Research Intern, Cryptography Research Group, MongoDB.
  • 2019–2025 — Teaching Assistant, UMass CICS
    • Applied Cryptography (COMPSCI 466)
    • Introduction to Algorithms (COMPSCI 311)
    • Advanced Algorithms (COMPSCI 611)
    • Secure Distributed Systems (COMPSCI 461/661)
  • 2022 — Summer Research Visit, Dr. Dov Gordon, George Mason University.
  • 2019 — Counselor, Theory & Abstract Algebra, Ross Mathematics Program Number.

Contact

Email: oacharya at umass dot edu

LinkedIn: ojaswi-acharya