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<h1>Sumanth Rao</h1>
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PhD student @<br>
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<a href="https://cse.ucsd.edu/">Computer Science and Engineering</a><br>
<a href="https://www.ucsd.edu/">University of California, San Diego</a><br><br>
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<a href="pdf/cv.pdf">CV</a> | <a
href="#research">Research</a> | <a href="#news"> In the News</a> | <a href="#talks">Talks</a> | <a href="#awards">Awards</a> | <a href='#hobbies'>
Hobbies</a> | <a href="#gallery">Gallery</a>
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<h2>About Me</h2>
<p>
I am a CS PhD student at UC San Diego advised by <a href="https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/">Stefan
Savage</a> and <a href="https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/">Geoff Voelker</a>. My research focuses on
improving security and privacy through empirical means, encompassing areas like healthcare security, email security,
and more broadly internet measurement. I am a member of the <a
href="https://sysnet.ucsd.edu/">Sysnet</a>, <a href="https://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/cryptosec/">CryptoSec</a> research groups, and the <a href="https://cns.ucsd.edu/">Center
for Networked Systems</a> at UCSD.
In my spare time, I keep busy with <a href='#hobbies'>several hobbies</a>. My hometown is Bengaluru, India.
If you're looking for my photography page, go <a href="/gallery">here</a>.
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<p>
<ul>
<li> 09/26/22 - Started my Master's thesis as a part of the
<a href="https://sysnet.ucsd.edu/">SysNet</a> group at UCSD!!
</li>
<li>08/01/22 - Our paper that studies the <a
href="https://cseweb.ucsd.edu//~savage/papers/PETS23.pdf">functionality and insecurity of consumer
android spyware apps</a> is accepted to <a href="https://petsymposium.org/cfp23.php">PETS'23</a>.
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<li>06/21/22 - Started my internship at Google, San Francisco working in the Virtual Cluster team within
Google Cloud. </li>
<li>09/20/21 - Started my Master's studies at the University of California, San Diego.</li>
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<hr />
<h2 id='research'> Research </h2>
<ul>
<strong>"<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645499">Unfiltered: Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses</a>"</strong><a href="https://youtu.be/irhftyMU9As?si=0KwXdsGxefo_r5T6">[talk]</a> <a href="pdf/www-2024-poster.pdf">[poster]</a> <br/>
<strong>Sumanth Rao</strong>, Enze Liu, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage. <br/>
<a href="https://www2024.thewebconf.org/">ACM Web Conference (WWW)</a>, Singapore, May 2024.
<br/>
<br/>
<strong>"<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618257.3624843">IRRegularities in the Internet Routing
Registry</a>"</strong><br />
Ben Du, Katherine Izhikevich, <strong>Sumanth Rao</strong>, Gautam Akiwate, Cecilia Testart, Alex C. Snoeren, and kc
claffy. <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2023/">ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)</a>,
Montréal, Canada, October 2023.
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<br />
<strong>"<a href="https://petsymposium.org/popets/2023/popets-2023-0013.pdf">No Privacy Among Spies:
Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps</a>"</strong> <a
href="assets/spyware-poster.pdf">[poster]</a><br />
Enze Liu, <strong>Sumanth Rao</strong>, Sam Havron, Grant Ho, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Damon McCoy</a>.
<a href="https://petsymposium.org/2023/">Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)</a>,
Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2023. <br />
</ul>
<hr />
<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
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<td> <img src="./images/ucsd.png" width="60" height="60" style="vertical-align: middle;"></td>
<td> </td>
<td> Ph.D. in Computer Science. <i> University of California, San Diego</i>.
Sep 2023 - Present.
<br />
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<td> <img src="./images/ucsd.png" width="60" height="60" style="vertical-align: middle;"></td>
<td> </td>
<td> M.S. in Computer Science. <i> University of California, San Diego</i>.
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023.
<br />
<i>Specialization in Computer Systems</i>
</td>
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<td> <img src="./images/pesu-new.png" width="65" height="63" vspace="10px"
style="vertical-align: middle;"></td>
<td> </td>
<td> Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. <i>PES University, Bengaluru</i>. May 2016 - Jul 2020.
<br />
<i>Specialization in Data Science</i>
</tr>
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<hr />
<h2 id="news"> Research in the News</h2>
<ul>
<li>
"Cloud Email Filtering Bypass Attack Works 80% of the Time" <span class="media_content"><a href="https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/cloud-email-filtering-bypass-attack">DarkReading</a>, <a href="https://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2024-04-apr/apr-01-2024.html">ACM TechNews</a>, <a href="https://tldrsec.com/p/tldr-sec-224">TL;DR Sec</a></span>
</li>
<li>
"This is What Happens When Your Phone is Spying on You" <span class="media_content"> <a href="https://today.ucsd.edu/story/spywarestudy2023">UC San
Diego News</a>, <a
href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/what-happens-when-your-phone-spying-you">University
of California News</a> <a
href="https://cacm.acm.org/news/272766-spyware-lurks-in-android-smartphones/fulltext">CACM
News</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35169914">Hacker News</a>, <a
href="https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-spying.html">Tech Xplore</a>, <a
href="https://scienmag.com/this-is-what-happens-when-your-phone-is-spying-on-you/">SCIENMAG</a>,
<a
href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/stalkerware-scientists-study-14-spyware-apps-to-see-how-they-can-infiltrate-your-phone-1.6313965">CTV
News</a>, <a
href="https://www.praeventionstag.de/nano.cms/daily-prevention-news/details/7512">German
Prevention Congress News</a>, <a
href="https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/03/20/tracking-apps-on-cellphones-are-a-useful-tool-but-can-lay-pray-to-spyware">KPBS</a>
</span>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2 id="experience">Industry Experience</h2>
<p>
<strong> Google, San Francisco</strong> <i>Software Engineering Intern</i> in Virtual Cluster, Google Cloud Platforms.
Improved user experience when spawning new Borg (Google's cluster manager) clusters.
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
</p>
<p>
<strong>Citrix, Bangalore</strong> <i>Software Engineer</i> in the Citrix Licensing team. Designed a Docker-based
automation framework deployed via a hybrid cloud model (Azure Cloud and Citrix's Xen Hypervisors). Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="talks">Talks</h2>
<ul>
<li>[May 2024] <a href="https://youtu.be/irhftyMU9As?si=0KwXdsGxefo_r5T6">Web Conference 2024. Unfiltered: Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses</a></li>
<li>[March 2024] <a href="https://kvgo.com/ftc/PrivacyCon-March-6-2024">FTC's PrivacyCon 2024, Panel 6: Mobile Device Security</a> Presented our work analyzing Spyware apps, followed by a moderated conversation around Android Security</li>
<li>[Nov 2022] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPUAEZVBrJg">Having a great GSoC as an Open Source
Newbie!</a>. Shared insights based on my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) journey with the Zulip
community. Recording available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/GoogleOpenSource">Google's Open
Source YouTube channel</a>
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2 id="awards">Awards / Scholarship</h2>
<ul>
<li> GPSA fall travel grant award for WWW 2024</li>
<li>Conference travel grant recipient for PETS'23 and IMC'23</li>
<li> Recipient of the
<i> JN Tata Scholarship</i> from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://www.jntataendowment.org/">The JN Tata Endowment</a> towards my graduate degree in
Computer Science at UC San Diego (2021 - 2022)
</li>
<li> Recipient of
<i>Prof. C N R Rao Merit Scholarship</i> for all semesters of study at PES University (2016 - 2020)
</li>
<li>Winners, Pravega IBM Hackathon, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Jan 2019)</li>
<li>Winners, Idea to Pitch Contest, Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, PES University (Jun 2018)</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2>Teaching Experience</h2>
<ul>
<li>Introduction to Computer Security (CSE 127), by Earlence Fernandes
- <a target-"_blank" href="https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~efernandes/teaching/cse127sp23/cse127.html">Spring
2023</a></li>
<li>Introduction to Computer Security (CSE 127), by Stefan Savage
- <a target="_blank" href="https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa22/cse127-a/">Fall 2022</a></li>
<li> Graduate Operating Systems (CSE 221), by Geoff Voelker - <a target="_blank"
href="https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi23/cse221-a/">Winter 2023</a> </li>
<li>Introduction to Computer Security (CSE 127), by George Obaido
- <a target="_blank" href="https://zzjas.github.io/cse127sp22/">Spring 2022</a> </li>
</ul>
<hr/>
<h2>Services</h2>
<p>
<strong>GradWIC Allyship Chair</strong>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://gradwic.ucsd.edu/">UCSD Graduate Women in Computing </a>. 2024<br />
<strong>VP External</strong>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://jgsc.eng.ucsd.edu/home">Jacobs Student Graduate Council</a>. 2021 - 2023<br />
<strong>Seargent at arms</strong>. <a href="https://www.citrix.com/">Citrix</a> Orators Toastmasters Club.
2020 - 2021
</p>
<hr />
<h2>Open Source</h2>
I spent the summer of 2019 as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Student with <a href="https://zulip.com/">the Zulip
Open Source Project</a>.
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2019/projects/6423498090610688">Here's</a> the
project worked on during that period.
I later mentored for the 2020 [<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/6307196188491776/">1</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/4790628438769664/">2</a>],
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4667597951336448">2021 and 2024</a> summer programs.
<p>All my contributions are open sourced and most of them are available below.
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal/commits?author=sumanthvrao">https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal/commits?author=sumanthvrao</a>
<br />
</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commits?author=sumanthvrao">https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commits?author=sumanthvrao</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br />
<hr />
<h2 id='hobbies'>Hobbies</h2>
<p>
My two favorite hobbies are hiking and running! Some of my favourite himalayan hikes/treks have been - <a
href="https://indiahikes.com/campsites-of-hampta-pass-trek/">Hampta Pass</a>, <a
href="https://indiahikes.com/brahmatal-trek/">Bharmatal</a> , <a
href="https://indiahikes.com/valley-of-flowers/">Valley Of Flowers</a>. I've ventured
on some beautiful hikes in San Diego - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/94158332@N05/Tt36M7">Strawberry
Junction on
Mt San Jacinto </a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/94158332@N05/10d494">Anza
Borrego Desert
Hike</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/94158332@N05/Nw8126w338">Fortuna Mtn Trail</a>, <a
href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/94158332@N05/U5s8nPo25b">Black Mountain Trail on Mt San Jacinto</a>
(this one has some funny pics), Cowles Mountain, Torrey Pines - to name a few. I occasionally capture photos here and there - checkout <a
href="/gallery">some of my clicks</a> or follow <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/say__cheeesee">@say__cheeesee</a> on instagram!
</p>
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