Bio by Abhi Shelat 2026-11-05
Primary first-person academic biography. Paragraphs1–2 verify research on non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, Harvard graduation in1997, MIT doctorate, IBM Zurich work, Virginia appointment in2007 and Northeastern move in2016. Name-case paragraph explicitly permits conventional capitalization. The page links image shelat.khoury.northeastern.edu/dl/0101c.png ; web image fetch returned cache miss and a single sandbox raw-fetch fallback was denied, so no unviewed image is embedded and no repository copy stored.
Primary source: shelat.khoury.northeastern.edu/research/2003-02-01-remembrance_of_data_passed_a_study_of_disk_sanitization_practices/
Verified locator: Primary coauthor publication page verifies title, authors and IEEE Security and Privacy, January/February2003. Original paper mirror www.lifespantechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IEEEReportonDataPrivacy.pdf verifies printed byline Simson L. Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, volume1(1),17–27; DOI10.1109/MSECP.2003.1176992. Pages24–26, Our experiment and conclusions:158 used drives, damaged/unreadable devices and explicit sample limitation. No population prevalence inferred.