Vinod Vaikuntanathan | |
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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.[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]