My Life in a Nutshell
Build
Write
Dribble
Education
B.Tech, M.Tech, Computer Science, IIT Kharagpur - 2017
MS, Computer Science, Columbia University - 2023
Work Experience
Software Engineer, Microsoft - 2020
Founding ML Engineer, Skylink (YC W22) - Present
Publications
Stop clickbait: Detecting and preventing clickbaits in online news media ( 2016)
A Chakraborty, B Paranjape, S Kakarla, N Ganguly
2016 IEEE/ACM international conference on advances in social networks
Gain: Practical Key-Recovery Attacks on Round-reduced PAEQ (2016)
D Saha, S Kakarla, S Mandava, DR Chowdhury
International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography
On the practical implementation of impossible differential cryptanalysis on reduced-round AES (2017)
S Kakarla, S Mandava, D Saha, DR Chowdhury
International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information
Gain: Practical Key-Recovery Attacks on Round-Reduced PAEQ (2017)
D Saha, S Kakarla, S Mandava, DR Chowdhury
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security 1, 282-296
Dinamite: internal differential match‐in‐the‐end attack on eight‐round PAEQ (2019)
D Saha, S Kakarla, D Roy Chowdhury
IET Information Security 13
Looney tunes: Exposing the lack of DRM protection in indian music streaming services. (2021)
A Dabholkar, S Kakarla, D Saha
Pre-print
Automatic cognate detetction for Avesan and Sankskrit using machine learning techniques (2023 - )
S Kakarla, H Beigi, D Bauer
To be published
Projects/Open Source
Open Source Contributions
Projects
- Improving use of OpenAI Codex's Edit API
- YouPlay: Commandline youtube player
- IoT Dashboard - Columbia Tech Ventures
- Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis (Project, Paper)
- HackGP: Conversation classifier that won multiple hackathons
Browser Extensions
- Copy real url
- Stop clickbait (ML project, paper)
Awards & Recognition
- Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, Columbia University (2023)
- Invention recognized by Columbia Tech Ventures: Employment Insights Dashboard (2022)
- Top 6 candidates for Prime Minister Research Fund, India (2020)
- Nominated for Best Master’s Thesis: Cryptanalysis of AES and AES based ciphers, IIT Kharagpur (2017)
- National media coverage: IIT team builds solution that weeds out ’clickbait’ headlines (2016)
- Best Paper, ASONAM 2016 Conference: Stop Clickbait paper (2016)
- Winner, IBM DAY 2016 - IIT Kharagpur contest (2016)
- Winner, Microsoft’s Code.Fun.Do Finalist Forum Nationwide Hackathon, India (2015)
- Winner, Microsoft’s Code.Fun.Do hackathon, IIT Kharagpur chapter (2015)
- Runner-up, IBM’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit hackathon, IIT Kharagpur (2015)
Writing/Books/Music
Scribbling down my thoughts into “poems” is a favourite cathartic pastime
Holy Nature - My favorite among all my amateur work. Featured in Poets of Columbia.
Can’t sing for the life of me but maybe write? Here’s a song I wrote in Telugu - Listen Now
My favorite reads - HERE
Soccer
Arsenal fan, ‘Gooner’ for life!
Gold Medal, MS Hall, Kharagpur
