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Asra Ali

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4ranked-venue papers
1as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-8552-330XORCID · corroborated

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Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 2 · 2 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Security and privacy · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Network and information security
2 papers
Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis · 67% Cryptographic protocols and secure computation · 33%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 100%
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Compilers and program optimization · 100%

Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis
homomorphic encryption
1.012026
Leveraging ASIC AI Chips for Homomorphic Encryption · HPCA 2026
Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis › finite field arithmetic
number theoretic transform
1.012026
Leveraging ASIC AI Chips for Homomorphic Encryption · HPCA 2026
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › cryptographic accelerator
homomorphic encryption accelerator
1.012026
Leveraging ASIC AI Chips for Homomorphic Encryption · HPCA 2026
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation › secure computation efficiency
communication-computation tradeoff
0.512021
Communication-Computation Trade-offs in PIR · USENIX Security Symposium 2021
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation
private information retrieval
0.512021
Communication-Computation Trade-offs in PIR · USENIX Security Symposium 2021
Compilers and program optimization › program transformation
compiler transformations
0.312026
Leveraging ASIC AI Chips for Homomorphic Encryption · HPCA 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

memory-aligned transformation · 3.0low-precision matrix multiplication · 3.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Leveraging ASIC AI Chips for Homomorphic Encryption
abstract
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) provides strong data privacy for cloud services but at the cost of prohibitive computational overhead. While GPUs have emerged as a practical platform for accelerating HE, there remains an order-ofmagnitude energy-efficiency gap compared to specialized (but expensive) HE ASICs. This paper explores an alternate direction: leveraging existing AI accelerators, like Google's TPUs with coarse-grained compute and memory architectures, to offer a path toward ASIC-level energy efficiency for HE. However, this architectural paradigm creates a fundamental mismatch with SoTA HE algorithms designed for GPUs. These algorithms rely heavily on: (1) high-precision (32-bit) integer arithmetic to now run on a TPU's low-throughput vector unit, leaving its high-throughput low-precision (8-bit) matrix engine (MXU) idle, and (2) fine-grained data permutations that are inefficient on the TPU's coarse-grained memory subsystem. Consequently, porting GPU-optimized HE libraries to TPUs results in severe resource under-utilization and performance degradation. To tackle above challenges, we introduce CROSS, a compiler framework that systematically transforms HE workloads to align with the TPU's architecture. CROSS makes two key contributions: (1) Basis-Aligned Transformation (BAT), a novel technique that converts high-precision modular arithmetic into dense, low-precision (INT8) matrix multiplications, unlocking and improving the utilization of TPU's MXU for HE, and (2) Memory-Aligned Transformation (MAT), which eliminates costly runtime data reordering by embedding reordering into compute kernels through offline parameter transformation. Our evaluation on a real single-host Google TPU v6e refreshes the SoTA Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) throughput record with up-to$1.43 \times$throughput improvement over WarpDrive on a NVIDIA A100. Furthermore, CROSS achieves$451 \times, 7.81 \times, 1.83 \times, 1.31 \times, 1.86 \times$, and$1.15 \times$higher throughput per watt than OpenFHE, WarpDrive, FIDESlib, FAB, HEAP, and Cheddar, respectively, establishing AI ASIC as the SotA efficient platform for HE operators. Code: https://github.com/EfficientPPML/CROSS.
Jianming Tong, Jingtian Dang, Leo de Castro, Anirudh Itagi, Anupam Golder, Asra Ali, Jeremy Kun, Jevin Jiang, Arvind 0001, G. Edward Suh, Tushar Krishna
HPCA7
2023 Discussing Social Media During Psychotherapy Consultations: Patient Narratives and Privacy Implications
abstract
Social media platforms are being utilized by individuals with mental illness for engaging in self-disclosure, finding support, or navigating treatment journeys. Individuals also increasingly bring their social media data to psychotherapy consultations. This emerging practice during psychotherapy can help us to better understand how patients appropriate social media technologies to develop and iterate patient narratives -- the stories of patients' own experiences that are vital in mental health treatment. In this paper, we seek to understand patients' perspectives regarding why and how they bring up their social media activities during psychotherapy consultations as well as related concerns. Through interviews with 18 mood disorder patients, we found that social media helps augment narratives around interpersonal conflicts, digital detox, and self-expression. We also found that discussion of social media activities shines a light on the power imbalance and privacy concerns regarding use of patient-generated health information. Based on the findings, we discuss that social media data are different from other types of patient-generated health data in terms of supporting patient narratives because of the social interactions and curation social media inherently engenders. We also discuss privacy concerns and trust between a patient and a therapist when patient narratives are supported by patients' social media data. Finally, we suggest design implications for social computing technologies that can foster patient narratives rooted in social media activities.
Dong Whi Yoo, Aditi Bhatnagar, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Asra Ali, Michael L. Birnbaum, Gregory D. Abowd, Munmun De Choudhury
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.4
2021 Communication-Computation Trade-offs in PIR
Asra Ali, Tancrède Lepoint, Sarvar Patel, Mariana Raykova 0001, Phillipp Schoppmann, Karn Seth, Kevin Yeo
USENIX Security Symposium1
2021 A Social Media Study on Mental Health Status Transitions Surrounding Psychiatric Hospitalizations
abstract
involving resuming social roles and responsibilities, overcoming stigma and self-maintenance of the condition. Both clinical recovery and social reintegration need to go hand-in-hand for the overall well-being of individuals. However, research exploring social media for mental health has considered narrower, disjoint conceptualizations of people with mental illness - either as a patient or as a support-seeker. In this paper, we combine medical records with social media data of 254 consented individuals who have experienced a psychiatric hospitalization to address this gap. Adopting a theory-driven, Gaussian Mixture modeling approach, we provide a taxonomy of six heterogeneous behavioral patterns characterizing peoples' mental health status transitions around hospitalizations. Then we present an empirically derived framework, based on feedback from clinical researchers, to understand peoples' trajectories around clinical recovery and social reintegration. Finally, to demonstrate the utility of this taxonomy and the empirical framework, we assess social media signals that are indicative of individuals' reintegration trajectories post-hospitalization. We discuss the implications of combining peoples' clinical and social experiences in mental health care and the opportunities this intersection presents to post-discharge support and technology-based interventions for mental health.
Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Kathan H. Kashiparekh, Amir Bolous, Asra Ali, John Kane 0001, Michael L. Birnbaum, Munmun De Choudhury
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.4