Vinod Vaikuntanathan

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]

  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.