My sister Maya and I on a recent vacation Umesh Shankar
umesh@this domain

I'm a former graduate student in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. My primary research area is system security.
My advisor was David Wagner. Now I work for Google.

My resume is available in PDF or Word format.

Research: papers, code, and more

Doppelganger

My recent work on Doppelganger, a novel way for thinking about and managing browser cookies that is more usable and privacy-preserving than existing options, has its own page at http://www.umeshshankar.com/doppelganger/. Doppelganger has been implemented as an extension to the Firefox browser. Try it!

My Clarinet Recordings

"Official" Setback (card game) pages

Sudokuslam.com is a sweet online sudoku site

Created by AJ Shankar (yes, that one) and Bill McCloskey.

Side Projects

Linux on the Dell Optiplex GX620 (945G chipset)

WMA Support for TagLib