E-mail: my-full-name [AT] protonmail [DOT] com
GitHub: github.com/manitofigh
linkedin: linkedin.com/in/manitofigh
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Hey! I'm Mani (pronounced like "Money") Tofigh (honestly it's up to you how to pronounce it).
I'm a first-year CS Ph.D. student at Columbia University, advised by Dr. Asaf Cidon. I did my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in research at Hofstra University, where I did research with Dr. Jianchen Shan.
Broadly, I'm interested in operating systems, computer architecture, system security, and cloud computing.
In particular, I find repurposing architectural properties of processors very interesting; e.g., repurposing side-channels for performance gains rather than microarchitectural attacks, weird machines/gates, or using certain architectural behaviors to uncover "hidden" information in virtualized environments.
Originally from the beautiful city of Tehran, Iran.
For fun: the waves below use an applied version of the code discussed in this post: Sinusoidal ASCII-art animated text
