---
title: "Asha Rao"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Asha Rao"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["SPNSA","RMIT University","anti-money-laundering graph algorithms","Pritheega Magalingam","Enron email corpus"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


Mathematician at RMIT University (Melbourne) working on graph-based methods
for detecting criminal and illicit networks. She matters to this vault as
the single authorial thread connecting two otherwise unrelated research
moments eleven years apart: co-author of the 2015 paper that introduced
[[entity-spnsa|SPNSA]] to find Enron's convicted money-launderers in an
e-mail graph, and co-author of the 2026 paper that carries the same
algorithm into Bitcoin and synthetic bank-transaction graphs. That span —
one person's research line moving an investigative method across two
unrelated crime domains and two unrelated datasets — is what makes her
worth a hub rather than a mention on someone else's page.

## References
- [[claim-spnsa-originated-2015-on-enron-email-corpus-not-financial-transactions]]
- [[claim-spnsa-motif-feed-selection-outperforms-baselines-but-not-universally]]
- [[claim-spnsa-illicit-enrichment-gain-traces-to-feed-selection-not-path-aggregation]]