Saranga Komanduri

Saranga Komanduri, Ph.D., currently serves as a Senior Software Engineer in Infrastructure at Imagen Technologies since May 2023 and is a Lecturer for the Master's of Information and Cybersecurity Program at the University of California, Berkeley, since January 2021, where Saranga leads the course on Usable Privacy and Security. Previously, Saranga held several positions at Civis Analytics from October 2014 to November 2022, including Principal Software Architect and Head of Product Security, overseeing secure infrastructure development and managing both in-house and offshore engineering teams. Saranga’s career also includes software engineering roles at Microsoft and Google, where research contributions focused on user security and data analysis. Saranga holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a specialization in Societal Computing, from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University.