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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Visiting Professor

Biography

Professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan is an associate professor of computer science at MIT and the chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies. Vinod is the co-inventor of most modern fully homomorphic encryption systems and many other lattice-based (post-quantum secure) cryptographic primitives. His work has been recognized with a George M. Sprowls PhD thesis award (2009), an IBM Josef Raviv Fellowship (2008), a Sloan Faculty Fellowship (2013), a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship (2014), an NSF CAREER Award (2014), a DARPA Young Faculty Award (2018), and a Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Award (2018). He holds SM and PhD degrees from MIT and a BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Education

  • 2009, PhD, Computer Science, MIT