About

Hey! I am Divye Kalra, a graduate cybersecurity student from Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus. Broadly, my research interests include cryptography, network and distributed systems security.
I am currently working as a Vehicle Security Researcher at Johns Hopkins University and the Applied Physics Laboratory, under the supervision of Dr. Anton Dahbura, Dr. Krishan Sabnani, and Dr. Ilya Sabnani. My work focuses on cybersecurity and assurance challenges in connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), including integrating C-V2X communication into VESNOS to strengthen the Secure Credential Management System (SCMS) and reduce communication latency. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at the IITB Trust Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, under the guidance of Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran, where I worked on implementing CASE (Completely Anonymous Signed Encryption) in Rust and contributed to ECAS optimizations. Before that, I conducted research at the Cyber Security Hub, Macquarie University, under Dr. Dali Kaafar, focusing on secure multi-party computation using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), privacy-preserving query systems, record linkage, and cryptographic system design. Published work can be found here.