Hi,


I am a PhD student in the CS department at Virginia Tech advised by Jin-Hee Cho. My current research is focusses on privacy, security, fairness, and incentives in federated learning.

Previously, I worked at University of Wisconsin-Madison supervised by Parmeswaran Ramanathan where I worked on developing privacy algorithms for genome data. I received my Master's degree from Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, and my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from GITAM University.

Research interests:

  • Privacy and Robustness in federated learning

  • Explainable AI Technologies

  • Federated Learning for AI applications

  • Applied Cryptography

  • Privacy Algorithms

E-mail: msindhuja@vt.edu

Publications

Two-Cloud Private Read Alignment to a Public Reference Genome
Sindhuja Madabushi, Parameswaran Ramanathan| PETS'23 | Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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M.Sc Thesis: Graph Sketches and Embeddings: A Study of their Applications in Graph Databases
S Madabushi| wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
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Bachelor's Thesis: Novel Network System with Miscellaneous Features GITAM University.

Talks

Privacy Preserving and Feature Importance Based Incentive Mechanism in Vertical Federated Learning
ACM CAPWIC 2024: ACM The Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing Conference 2024
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Guest talk at Virginia Tech
Guest lectured for Database Management Systems class
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