Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Vinod Vaikuntanathan | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Homomorphic encryption |
| Awards | Gödel Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Randomized algorithms for reliable broadcast (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shafi Goldwasser |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cryptography |
| Institutions | MIT, CSAIL |
| Website | people |
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. 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. He also co-founded the data start-up Duality, which utilizes technologies he developed revolving around homomorphic encryption.