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Right from childhood, Apoorvaa has had a keen interest and aptitude for mathematics. In her school age, she aced several competitive math exams and was also selected for the Indian national math olympiad camp (among top 30 in India in under 18). She studied M.Sc. Honors Mathematics and Computer Science engineering at the renowned BITS Pilani University, India. There she found her love for cryptography, a rigorous discipline at the intersection of mathematics and computer science that focuses on secure and private ways of communicating and computing.
Post her undergrad, she went on to complete her PhD in Computer Science at the Ivy League Brown University. Her research in cryptography has been published in top-tier journals and conferences. Her research on secure end-to-end message encryption has also been adopted and implemented at scale in WhatsApp. For an overview of her PhD thesis, watch this video. She has been awarded Google Anita Borg fellowship, and Paris Kanellakis, Celo fellowships for her research.
Currently, Apoorvaa is a Senior Privacy Engineer at Google where she uses her expertise to design and build privacy-preserving features for generative AI products. Prior to that, she was a Tech Lead at Snap Inc where she lead the strategic roadmap of the privacy team to unlock utility while maintaining a high privacy bar.
Apoorvaa considers herself a strong advocate for digital privacy, and believes in working towards an internet where people can get their desired features and functionalities without having to compromise on their privacy. She is known for her creative and innovative solutions, and has several influential patents to her name in a span of few years.
Apoorvaa is frequently invited as a speaker and panelist to top privacy conferences such as BSides, PEPR, Indo-American Cyber Security for her thought leadership in privacy and AI. She is also on the program committee of PEPR to help curate pertinent privacy talks for the community.
