Privacy
This is a personal academic site. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no comment box and no forms, so there is nothing here for you to submit and nothing for me to store about you. I do not sell, share or trade visitor data, because I do not hold any that could be traded.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies and writes nothing to local storage. That is why you are not being asked to dismiss a consent banner.
Measurement
Two scripts from the site's host, Vercel, run on each page: Web Analytics and Speed Insights. Web Analytics counts page views and referrers without cookies and without a persistent visitor identifier. Speed Insights reports page-loading measurements — the Core Web Vitals — so I can tell whether a change made the site slower. Both report to me in aggregate only: I can see that a page was viewed, not who viewed it. Vercel describes what these products collect in its analytics privacy documentation.
Server logs
Vercel operates the servers and content delivery network that answer requests for this site, and like any web host it processes request data — IP address, user agent, requested path — in order to deliver the page and to defend against abuse. That processing is Vercel's, under its own privacy policy, and I do not receive those raw logs.
Third parties
The fonts and images on this site are served from this domain rather than a font or image CDN, so loading a page does not announce your visit to a third party. Links that leave this site — to Google Scholar, GitHub, LinkedIn, Medium, publishers, or the university — are governed by the privacy policies of those services once you follow them.
Automated clients
Crawling and machine reading are allowed; see /robots.txt and /llms.txt. Requests from automated clients are handled exactly like any other request, and are subject to the same measurement and logging described above.
Questions
If you have a question about any of this, or you want something about you removed from a page, write to ashwin@ucsd.edu. If this policy changes, the date below changes with it.
Last updated 21 August 2026.