Sathvik Prasad is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at North Carolina State University. Sathvik's research interest spans the area of system security and privacy, with an emphasis on developing and applying data-driven techniques to study spam, abuse and fraud. He currently works on developing techniques to detect and characterize Robocalls — a catch-all term for automated or semi-automated phone calls. Previously, he developed and troubleshot VoIP systems at Cisco.