Vinod Vaikuntanathan
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OccupationProfessor
KnownforHomomorphic encryption
Vinod Vaikuntanathan | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Homomorphic encryption |
| Awards | Gödel Prize, Simons Investigator Award, Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 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.[1] His work is focused on cryptography, including homomorphic encryption. He received the 2022 Gödel Prize, together with Zvika Brakerski and Craig Gentry.[2][3] He also co-founded the data start-up Duality Tech, which utilizes technologies he developed revolving around homomorphic encryption.[4] In 2023, he received the Simons Investigator Award and in 2026, the Guggenheim Fellowship.
