Sanjit Bhat

About Me

I'm a senior at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School and a third-year student in the MIT PRIMES program, a year-long independent research program for high school students.

During my first year and part of my second year, I worked with David Lu under the mentorship of Albert Kwon on a Computer Security project. Together, we studied anonymous networks and created better Website Fingerprinting attacks and defenses. I worked mainly on the attack, applying novel techniques from deep learning to solve a network packet sequence classification problem.

I'm currently working under the mentorship of Dimitris Tsipras in the Mądry Lab at MIT, conducting research in a subfield of theoretical machine learning called adversarial ML. My overarching goals are to understand the fundamentals of why and when neural networks work and back this understanding up with theory and rigorous experiments.

Papers

Towards Efficient Methods for Training Robust Deep Neural Networks
Sanjit Bhat, Dimitris Tsipras, and Aleksander Mądry
Presentation

DynaFlow: An Efficient Website Fingerprinting Defense Based on Dynamically-Adjusting Flows
David Lu, Sanjit Bhat, Albert Kwon, and Srinivas Devadas
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
Code

Var-CNN and DynaFlow: Improved Attacks and Defenses for Website Fingerprinting
Sanjit Bhat, David Lu, Albert Kwon, and Srinivas Devadas
Code Presentation

Contact
27 Lexington Dr,
Acton, MA 01720
Phone: (978) 621-1365
Email: sanjit.bhat@gmail.com