PhD Research Projects:

1. Of Choices and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Government Hosting
2. Each at its Own Pace: Third‐Party Dependency and Centralization Around the World.
3. Identifying CDN Replica Selection in the Wild
4. Decentralization, Privacy, and Performance for DNS.

Publications:

• Rashna Kumar, Marcel Flores and Fabián E. Bustamante. 2024. Identifying CDN Replica Selection in the Wild. In Proceedings of the CoNEXT on Student Workshop 2024 (CoNEXT-SW ’24), December 9, 2024. 
• Rashna Kumar, Esteban Carisimo, Lukas De Angelis Riva, Mauricio Buzzone, Fabián E. Bustamante, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Mariano G. Beiró. 2024. Of Choices and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Government Hosting. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’24), November 4, 2024.
• Esteban Carisimo, Rashna Kumar, Caleb J. Wang, Santiago Klein and Fabián E. Bustamante. 2024. Ten years of the Venezuelan crisis – An Internet perspective. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference (ACM SIGCOMM ’24). Aug 4, 2024. 
• Kedar Thiagarajan, Rashna Kumar, Fabián E. Bustamante. 2023. A Peek Backstage: Organizations in DNS Resolver Hierarchies. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference (ACM SIGCOMM ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1088–1090. · Sep 1, 2023
• Rashna Kumar, Sana Asif, Elise Lee, and Fabián E. Bustamante. 2023. Each at its Own Pace: Third‐Party Dependency and Centralization Around the World. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. 7, 1, Article 4, March 2023, 29 pages (SIGMETRICS’23). 
• Rashna Kumar, Fabián E. Bustamante. 2021.Decentralization, privacy and performance for DNS. In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM ’21 Poster and Demo Sessions (SIGCOMM ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 56–58. (1st Place in ACM SIGCOMM’21 Student Research Competition)

Research Internship:

Working as a Computer Networks summer’22 research intern in Yahoo under the supervision of Yifan Hu and Meizhu Liu, on understanding the deployment of IPv6 and its effect on user tracking.

Awards:

• Northwestern’s Terminal Year Fellowship (2023-2024)
• 1st Place in ACM SIGCOMM’21 Student Research Competition
• Virtual Grace Hopper Conference (GHC) 2022 Scholar
• Selected for 2022 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
• Travel award for ACM SIGCOMM’23 (N2Women), ACM IMC’22, ACM SIGCOMM’22 (N2Women), ACM CoNEXT’19

Undergraduate Research Projects:

1. Investigating Online Advertisement Fraud on YouTube, supervised by Prof. Mobin Javed.
2. “Cross-domain Authorship Attribution on Dark-web forums”, supervised by Prof. Fareed Zaffar.