I am a second year Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, where I am advised by Prof. Benjamin Ujcich and affiliated with SECLAB. Prior to joining Georgetown, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-Hyderabad under the supervision of Prof. Praveen Tammana. I received my Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University, advised by Prof. Nityananda Sarma . My broad interests lie in the intersection of systems, software-defined networking (SDN), and programmable data planes (PDPs). In addition to my research interests in systems and software-defined networking (SDN), I have also developed a strong foundation in various technical skills. These include configuring hardware such as smartNICs (Netronome) and Tofino Switches (Intel). Overall, I believe that my technical skills, combined with my curiosity and passion for computer science, make me well-suited for a successful career in research and academia.
Email – ds1849 [AT] georgetown.edu

News
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Publication
- [EuroP4’23 (co-located with CoNEXT’23] – “LANTERN: Layered Adaptive Network Telemetry Collection for Programmable Dataplanes” [PDF]
Kaiyu Hou, Dhiraj Saharia, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Phillip Porras - [IEEE S&P’24] – “NetShuffle: Circumventing Censorship with Shuffle Proxies at the Edge” [PDF]
Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Aniket Gattani, Dhiraj Saharia, Tianyu Cao, Diogo Barradas, Ang Chen, Micah Sherr, Benjamin E Ujcich - Saharia, Dhiraj, et al. “An Ensemble based Modulation Recognition using Feature Extraction.” 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT). IEEE, 2021. [LINK]
- Saharia, Dhiraj, et al. “INDRA Reporter: Crowdsourcing Quantitative Flooding Data with Impact Classifications to develop real-time flood risk dashboards.” AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 2020. 2020. [LINK]
Experience
- [Summer Research Intern][June-Aug’23] – SRI International, Advisor: Dr. Vinod Yegneswaran
Research Interests
- Networks – SDN, Programmable data planes
- Security – Provenance
- Machine Learning – Applications of ML
- Software Development
Skills
- C – socket, OS, openGL
- Network – P4, wireshark, PCAP
- Python – socket, scapy, scikit-learn
- Web – Reactjs (front-end), Django (back-end), react-native (mobile)
- Database – postgres (postGIS)