Kartik Nayak
Assistant Professor at Duke University
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKartik Nayak is an assistant professor and researcher with 11 years of industry and academic experience in secure and scalable distributed systems, cryptography, and blockchain protocols. After a software-engineering start at Google, he completed a Ph.D. at University of Maryland and progressed through research roles at VMware and Microsoft Research before joining Duke University faculty. His work spans practical systems (e.g., scalable confidential blockchains and permissionless Byzantine protocols) and theoretical tools (ORAM and secure processor designs), reflecting a rare blend of applied and foundational expertise. Based in College Park, MD, he frequently bridges industry and academia through internships and collaborations, bringing production experience to research that targets real-world deployment. An understated thread in his career is consistent focus on privacy-preserving computation across both protocol design and system implementation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at VJTI
Github Skills (12)
jekyll-theme9
jekyll9
ranking8
computation7
backend7
github-pages7
science7
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mpc7
computer-science6
secure-computation4
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kartik1507/GraphSC
Mar 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 6 months
blockchainsplusx/blockchainsplusx.github.io
Jan 2023 - Aug 2023
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Contributions:74 pushes in 6 months
tailwindcsssimple-websiteminutes
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