Research

About me

I'm a PhD student studying theoretical computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Elaine Shi and Jonathan Ullman. My research broadly focuses on algorithms, privacy, and the interplay between theory and practice. My research is generously supported by the CyLab Presidential Fellowship.

Before moving to CMU, I completed the first three years of my PhD at Northeastern University. I also received my Bachelor's in Mathematics, Minor in Physics from Northeastern University.

CV (last updated September 25, 2025)

Publications

Note: In theoretical computer science, it is customary to sort the authors of each paper alphabetically.

The Power of Two-Choice Linear Probing

FOCS '26 (To Appear) • Azarmehr; Bender; Kuszmaul; Silver

The Local/Global Disk Problem: How to Use Shared High-Bandwidth Storage Economically

SPAA '26SPAA 2026 Outstanding Paper Award • Bender; Bille; Farach-Colton; Fineman; Gørtz; Goodrich; Komlós; Kuszmaul B.; Kuszmaul W.; Silver; Veldhuizen; Zhou

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Decentralized Data Archival: New Definitions and Constructions

ITCS '26 • Shi; Silver; Mu — authors listed in randomized order

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History-Independent Load Balancing

SODA '26 • Bender; Kuszmaul; Shi; Silver

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Private Mean Estimation with Person-Level Differential Privacy

SODA '25 • Agarwal; Kamath; Majid; Mouzakis; Silver; Ullman

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Differentially Private Medians and Interior Points for Non-Pathological Data

ITCS '24 • Aliakbarpour; Silver; Steinke; Ullman

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Box-Ball Systems and RSK Tableaux

FPSAC '22 • Drucker; Garcia; Gunawan; Rumbolt; Silver

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Miscellaneous

Senior Thesis: Triangulations of Cambrian Lattices of Type A

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