I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am co-advised by Prof. Andreas Haeberlen and Prof. Linh Thi Xuan Phan. I am a member of the Distributed Systems Laboratory at Penn.

My research interests include distributed systems, databases, privacy, and applied cryptography.

Before joining Penn, I graduated from Cornell University with an M.Eng. and a B.A. with honors, both in computer science. At Cornell, I did research under the supervision of Prof. Robbert van Renesse, Prof. Hakim Weatherspoon, and Prof. Andrew Myers.

Publications

Scribe: Low-memory SNARKs via Read-Write Streaming.
Anubhav Baweja, Pratyush Mishra, Tushar Mopuri, Karan Newatia, and Steve Wang.
35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ‘26), August 2026.

Running Distributed Systems Like Clockwork.
Karan Newatia, Robert Gifford, Qingjie Lu, Andreas Haeberlen, and Linh Thi Xuan Phan.
Conference on New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS ‘26), February 2026.

Solver-In-The-Loop Cluster Resource Management for Database-as-a-Service.
Arnd König, Yi Shan, Karan Newatia, Luke Marshall, and Vivek Narasayya.
50th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB ‘24), August 2024.

Arboretum: A Planner for Large-Scale Federated Analytics with Differential Privacy. Elizabeth Margolin^*, Karan Newatia^*, Edo Roth, Tao Luo, and Andreas Haeberlen.
29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ‘23), October 2023.

Mycelium: Large-Scale Distributed Graph Queries with Differential Privacy.
Edo Roth, Karan Newatia, Yiping Ma, Ke Zhong, Sebastian Angel, and Andreas Haeberlen.
28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ‘21), October 2021.

*=co-first authors

Industry Experience

Meta, Bellevue, WA - PhD SWE Intern, Systems and Infrastructure (Summer ‘25)

Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - Research Intern (Summer ‘24)

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA - Research Intern (Summer ‘23)

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA - Research Intern (Summer ‘22)

Teaching Experience

CIS 5550: Internet and Web Systems - Guest Lecturer (Spring ‘23)

CIS 5020: Analysis of Algorithms - Teaching Assistant (Spring ‘22)

CIS 5050: Software Systems - Teaching Assistant (Fall ‘21)

Service

OSDI ‘23 Artifact Evaluation Committee

EuroSys ‘22 Artifact Evaluation Committee