Sraddhanjali (Sam) Acharya
San Diego, California
Welcome to Sraddhanjali Acharya’s (श्रद्धाञ्जली आचार्य in Nepali) page.
She is a biometrics researcher turned entrepreneur with a PhD in computer science. She is interested in biometrics, security, privacy, side-channel analysis and machine learning.
She defended her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas Tech University advised by Dr. Abdul Serwadda. She has designed wearable systems that become smarter through machine learning enhancing security through authentication mechanisms and uncovering privacy risks.
At Qualcomm, she scaled that expertise to the hardware level, leveraging large-scale anomaly analytics and refactoring pipelines to save up to 50% in cloud resources (cpu time).
Today, she blends her foundation in information system design, biometrics, machine learning, LLMOps, and AWS to help people and companies build secure, efficient, and scalable products from research prototypes.
Check out some of her work.
news
| Apr 10, 2022 | Joined Qualcomm as Senior Engineer working in Silicon Automation and Anomaly Analysis in April 2022. |
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| Dec 10, 2021 | Defended dissertation and graduated Dec 10th, 2021 with Ph.D. in Computer Science |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Presented my paper “On Finger Stretching and Bending Dynamics as a Biometric Modality” virtually at SmartNets’21 and received best paper award. |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Presented paper That phone charging hub knows your video playlist! virtually at 18th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2021). |
| Jan 1, 2020 | Entrepreneurial Lead for Defensive Charging under NSF I-Corps Team, Fall 2020-Spring 2021. |