Sambhav Satija
CV | Google Scholar | Thoughts
whoami
I am a fifth year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. I am broadly interested in systems
and security.
In the sweltering summer of '24, I battled data ingestion pipelines at Kloudfuse, while in the balmy summer of '22, I worked at Microsoft
Research with Badrish Chandramouli on Garnet.
Before this, I was a Research
Fellow at Microsoft Research, India with Satya Lokam, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth Chandran and Divya Gupta where I worked on building a
new lightweight blockchain protocol.
I had a short stint in the industry working at Tower Research Capital managing their build tools and interned at
Google in their Enterprise team. Prior to that, I built and broke stuff in hackathons and CTFs.
What drives me
- Systems – distributed systems, large-(web/data)-scale systems.
- Security & Privacy – can we build provably secure systems while minimizing TCB?
Publications
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Cloudscape: A Study of Storage Services in Modern Cloud Architectures | Dataset | Explorer
Sambhav Satija, Chenhao Ye, Ranjitha Kosgi, Aditya Jain, Romit Kankaria, Yiwei Chen, Andrea
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Kiran Srinivasan
FAST 2025
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TrustRate: A Decentralized Platform for
Hijack-Resistant Anonymous Reviews
Rohit Dwivedula, Sriram Sridhar, Sambhav Satija, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth Chandran, Divya
Gupta, Satya Lokam
arXiv preprint, 2024
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BlindTLS: Circumventing
TLS-based HTTPS censorship
Sambhav Satija, Rahul Chatterjee
FOCI 2021 @ SIGCOMM 2021
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Blockene: A
High-throughput Blockchain Over Mobile Devices | Extended version
Sambhav Satija, Apurv Mehra, Sudheesh Singanamalla, Karan Grover, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth
Chandran, Divya Gupta, Satya Lokam
OSDI 2020
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Prayana: Intermediated Financial
Management in Resource-Constrained Settings | Poster
Apurv Mehra, Srihari Muralidhar, Sambhav Satija, Anupama Dhareshwar, Jacki O'Neill
CHI 2018
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Prayana: A Journey Towards
Financial Inclusion
Apurv Mehra, Sambhav Satija, Jacki O'Neill
ICTD 2017
Teaching
- Guest lecture: CS736 Advanced Operating Systems — UW Madison
Lecture Title: Cloudscape: A Study of Deployed Cloud Architectures
- TA: CS639 Blockchains — UW-Madison — Spring 2023
- TA: CS537 Operating Systems — UW-Madison — Spring 2022, Fall 2022
- TA: CS354 Machine Organization & Programming — UW-Madison — Fall 2021, Spring 2021
- TA: Operating Systems — IIIT-Delhi — Fall 2015
- TA: Data Structures & Algorithms — IIIT-Delhi — Spring 2015
Service
- Artifact Evaluation Committee — SOSP 2024, EuroSys 2025
- Shadow PC — EuroSys 2021