Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering in the EECS department at MIT, a principal investigator at MIT CSAIL, and the chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies. He earned his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003, and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Vinod's research is in the foundations of cryptography: he is best known for his work on fully homomorphic encryption and on lattice-based cryptography. Recently, he has been interested in the interactions of cryptography with quantum computing, and with machine learning. His work has been recognized with the Gödel Prize (2022), the Simons Investigator Award (2023), and several Best Paper and Test of Time awards