Vinod Vaikuntanathan

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan
OccupationProfessor
Known forhomomorphic encryption
AwardsGödel Prize
Academic background
ThesisRandomized algorithms for reliable broadcast (2009)
Doctoral advisorShafi Goldwasser
Academic work
Disciplinecryptography
InstitutionsMIT, CSAIL
Websitepeople.csail.mit.edu/vinodv/

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[1] His work is focused on cryptography, including homomorphic encryption. He is the co-recipient of the 2022 Gödel Prize, together with Zvika Brakerski and Craig Gentry.[2][3] He also co-founded the data start-up Duality, which utilizes technologies he developed revolving around homomorphic encryption[4].

Education[edit]

Vaikuntanathan received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003 and his Ph.D in computer science in 2009 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Shafi Goldwasser. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Josef Raviv postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and from 2010 to 2011, a researcher at Microsoft Research. From Fall 2011 to Spring 2013, he was a professor at the University of Toronto. In Fall 2013, he joined the faculty at MIT.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "vinod vaikuntanathan". people.csail.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  2. ^ "ACM SIGACT - Gödel Prize". sigact.org. Archived from the original on 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  3. ^ "School of Engineering second quarter 2022 awards". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  4. ^ "Duality nabs $30M for its privacy-focused data collaboration tools, built using homomorphic encryption". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2024-04-15.