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I'm a first year PhD student in the department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. I am advised by Dr. Aravind Srinivasan.

My research interests lie broadly in Design, Analysis and Applications of Algorithms. I am interested in devising algorithms which both contribute to push the state-of-art in theory as well as produce tangible impact in real-world applications.

Previously, I obtained a B.Tech(Hons), with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Operations Research, from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. My brother and I spent our childhood days in the beautiful city of Bangalore, India.

Publications

  • "Ensuring Privacy in Location Based Services: An Approach Based on Opacity Enforcement"
    Yi-Chin Wu, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman, St`ephane Lafortune.
    Proc. of the 14th International Workshop of Discrete Event Systems, pages 33-38, 2014


    • Manuscripts

  • "A Revocable Online-Offline Certificateless Signature Scheme without Pairing"
    Karthik Abinav, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, C. Pandu Rangan, S. Sharmila Deva Selvi, S. Sree Vivek, Vivek Krishna Pradhan
    Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2013/758, 2013

    • My Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant - Discrete Structures

    Spring 2015, Fall 2014 UMD

  • Teaching Assistant - Paradigms of Programming

    Autumn 2013, IITM

    • My Industrial Experience

    Teritree Technologies

    I was a summer intern at this bangalore-based startup between May and July 2012. During my period there, I was involved in creating a recommendation system for user interests, based on previously collected data about him/her from social network sites and his/her activity on the system.

    HyperVerge

    I played an interesting role at this emerging Silicon Valley/Chennai based startup during May and July 2014. This company was started by a few of my batchmates from IITM. I helped them prototype an initial mobile application over the summer, which was used to give a demonstration to potential investors.

    Personal

    Feel free to contact me

    The best way to contact me is through email.

    Email

    kabinav@cs.umd.edu

    Phone

    +1 240 715 5910

    Address

    3204, A.V. Williams Building,
    University of Maryland,
    College Park, MD, 20742