when I’m not doing research, I enjoy making music, brewing coffee, and reading.

music

I play keyboard, guitar, and bass in my spare time. Here is a curated playlist of my music.

During my Master’s, I created Headhunter, a musical instrument that responds to head movement. You can read more about it here.

coffee

I take coffee as seriously as I take cryptography: cryptography is hard, and so is dialing in the perfect shot. Some of my favorite research papers on coffee include:

Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling and Experiment

Chemical strategies to mitigate electrostatic charging during coffee grinding

Here are a few latte art attempts I’d submit to peer review:

Poetry

My commitment scheme is perfectly hiding, but this poem sees right through me.

Scheherazade by Richard Siken