Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a professor of computer science at MIT and the chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies. Vinod is the co-inventor of modern fully homomorphic encryption systems and many other lattice-based (post-quantum secure) cryptographic primitives. His work has been recognized with several awards including the Gödel Prize (2022), Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Award (2018), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2018), the Sloan Faculty Fellowship (2013) and the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship (2014). He holds SM and PhD degrees from MIT and a BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Program Visits

Quantum Algorithms, Complexity, and Fault Tolerance, Spring 2024, Visiting Scientist

Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing, Summer 2023, Visiting Scientist

Meta-Complexity, Spring 2023, Visiting Scientist

Summer Cluster: Lattices and Beyond, Summer 2022

Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography, Spring 2020, Visiting Scientist

Summer Cluster: Challenges in Quantum Computation, Summer 2018, Visiting Scientist

Cryptography, Summer 2015, Visiting Scientist