Working Papers

• Measuring Incidental Collection in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (with Jonathan Mayer)

• Leveraging Strategic Connection Migration-Powered Traffic Splitting for Privacy (with Mona Wang, Liang Wang & Prateek Mittal)

Publications

• Kulshrestha, A., & Mayer, J. (2021). Identifying Harmful Media in End-to-End Encrypted Communication: Efficient Private Membership Computation. 30th USENIX Security Symposium (Upcoming).
  [Paper] [Slides] [Presentation]
• Kulshrestha, A., Rampuria, A., Denton, M., & Sreenivas, A. (2017). Cryptographically Secure Multiparty Computation and Distributed Auctions using Homomorphic Encryption. Cryptography, 1(3), 25.
  [Paper] [Code]
• Kulshrestha, A., Shah, A., & Lu, D. (2017). Politically Predictive Potential of Social Networks: Twitter and the Indian General Election 2014. Proceedings of the Fourth Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference, 1.
  [Paper] [Best Paper Award]
• Kulshrestha, A. (2012). On the Hamming Distance Between Base-N Representations of Whole Numbers. Canadian Young Scientist Journal, 2012(2), 14–16.
  [Paper] [Best Paper Award]

Theses

• Kulshrestha, A. (2018). Bittersweet Fruits of Incumbency: Evidence from India [Master's thesis]. Stanford University.
  [Paper] [Data]

Press

• Your Phone Is Your Private Space.
  The Atlantic (2021-09-04)
• S5E7: Apple’s #SpyPhone, an Apple App Store Settlement, and the Expansion of Government Facial Recognition Software.
  DevNews Podcast (2021-09-02)
• The slippery slope of surveillance is real.
  The Boston Globe (2021-09-01)
• Researchers Label Apple’s CSAM Detection System ‘Dangerous’.
  Forbes (2021-08-21)
• We built a system like Apple’s to flag child sexual abuse material — and concluded the tech was dangerous.
  The Washington Post (2021-08-19)
• How Line is fighting disinformation without sacrificing privacy.
  Rest of World (2021-03-07)
• How The BJP Out-Tweeted The Competition To Win The 2014 General Election.
  The Huffington Post (2017-05-17)
• BJP way ahead of competition on social media in 2014, says Stanford University study.
  Hindustan Times (2017-05-17)