Hello! I'm Anu.

I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher in the applied cryptography group at ETH Zürich.
Before this, I was a PhD student in quantum cryptography at the University of Oxford,
and a visiting researcher at LIP6, Sorbonne Université.

     

Publications

Adversarial correctness and privacy for probabilistic data structures
M. Filić, K. G. Paterson, A. Unnikrishnan, F. Virdia
ACM CCS (2022)
(Eprint)  (Conference Proceedings)

Verification of graph states in an untrusted network
A. Unnikrishnan, D. Markham
Physical Review A 105, 5 (2022)
(ArXiv)  (Journal)

Authenticated teleportation and verification in a noisy network
A. Unnikrishnan, D. Markham
Physical Review A 102, 4 (2020)
(ArXiv)  (Journal)

Authenticated teleportation with one-sided trust
A. Unnikrishnan, D. Markham
Physical Review A 100, 3 (2019)
(ArXiv)  (Journal)

Anonymity for practical quantum networks
A. Unnikrishnan, I. J. MacFarlane, R. Yi, E. Diamanti, D. Markham, I. Kerenidis
Physical Review Letters 122, 24 (2019)
(ArXiv)  (Journal)

Talks

Adversarial correctness and privacy for probabilistic data structures
Microsoft Research Reading Group
Remote (2023)

Adversarial correctness and privacy for probabilistic data structures
Stanford Security Seminar
Palo Alto, California (2022)

Tales from coding in physics
Enthusiasticon
Remote (2020)

Anonymity for practical quantum networks
Conference for Quantum Information and Quantum Control
Toronto, Canada (2019)

Practical verification for quantum protocols
Edinburgh-Paris Quantum Workshop
Edinburgh, Scotland (2019)

Anonymity for practical quantum networks
Quantum Internet Alliance Consortium Meeting
Lisbon, Portugal (2019)

Anonymity for practical quantum networks
Conference of the European Flagship for Quantum Technologies
Grenoble, France (2019)

Authenticated teleportation under different trust settings
Conference on Quantum Structures and Quantum Information Theory
Cagliari, Italy (2018)

Activities

ETH Zürich (2020-current)

• Coordinator, mentoring programme for female researchers
• Executive board member, departmental scientific staff association
• Staff representative, departmental hiring committee
• Seminar coordinator, Zürich Information Security and Privacy Center

University of Oxford (2015-2019)

• Social secretary, Trinity College
• Events coordinator, Oxford Women in Physics Society

University of Leeds (2011-2015)

• Peer mentor
• Intercultural ambassador

Programming

Some fun projects from my time at the Recurse Center (2020):
Christmas Movie Generator · a Markov chain writes a hit Christmas movie.
M-ai-ze Solver · escaping from a maze using reinforcement learning.
London Bookshops · a map of independent bookshops in London.
Scrabble Bot · creating a crazy good Scrabble AI.
Baby Lisp · a very simple Lisp interpreter.
UFO Visualiser · mapping UFO sightings across the USA.
Neural Networks · building a neural network from scratch.
National Park Genie · inspiration for hikes in US national parks.
Tic-Tac-Toe · how to make an AI that will never lose a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.