Hello!

My name is Mridu and I am a first year CS PhD student advised by Mike Reiter at Duke University. I am broadly interested in systems security research and my current work is focused on passwords.

Before Duke, I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science (and minor in math) from Harvard University, where I worked with James Mickens.

Here is my CV and my contact info.

Research

In a previous life, I was interested in computational biology, specifically cancer modeling. I was fortunate to be advised by Rick Durrett. Here are the projects we worked on:

• Spatial evolutionary games with weak selection.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2017
  Mridu Nanda, Rick Durrett.
  

• Genotype Patterns in Growing Solid Tumors.
  bioRxiv preprint, 2020
  Mridu Nanda, Rick Durrett.
  

Teaching

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 351: Introduction to Security
  Duke University, Spring 2022
  
• Head Teaching Fellow for CS 263: Systems Security
  Harvard University, Fall 2020
  
• Teaching Fellow for CS 61: Systems Programming & Machine Organization
  Harvard University, Fall 2019
  
• Teaching Fellow for CS 152: Programming Languages
  Harvard University, Spring 2019
  

Contact

Email: mridu [dot] nanda [at] duke [dot] edu