PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Vinod Vaikuntanathan

About the Speaker: Vinod Vaikuntanathan is the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering in MIT’s EECS department, a principal investigator at CSAIL, and chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies. He received his BTech from IIT Madras and his SM and PhD from MIT, and joined the MIT faculty in 2013 after research roles at IBM, Microsoft, and the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the foundations of cryptography, with seminal contributions to fully homomorphic encryption and lattice-based cryptography, and recent interests spanning quantum computing, statistics, and machine learning. His work has been widely recognized, including the Gödel Prize, Simons Investigator Award, MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, and multiple best paper and test-of-time awards from leading conferences.