Contact Information

32 Vassar Street, G-696
Cambridge MA 02139.
Phone: 617 324 8444

vinodv at csail dot mit dot edu

Schedule (2016)

1. Invited Talk: Africacrypt 2016
2. Invited Talk: Public-key Cryptography 2016
3. Talk at the Second Desert Workshop in Crypto

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Cryptographer
Associate Professor at MIT EECS
Sloan Faculty Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Thank You to Sloan Foundation, Connaught Foundation, NSERC, DARPA, NEC Corporation, NSF, Microsoft and Northrop Grumman for their generous support.

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Teaching Organizational Students & Postdocs Publications Implementation Projects & Software Links

Teaching

• Spring 2017 6.875: Cryptography and Cryptanalysis.
• Fall 2016 6.046: Introduction to Algorithms.
• Spring 2016 6.046: Introduction to Algorithms.
• Fall 2015 6.876: Advanced Topics in Cryptography.
• Spring 2015 Junior Faculty Research Leave
• Fall 2014 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms.
• Spring 2014 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms.
• Fall 2013 6.892: Computing on Encrypted Data .
• Spring 2013 MAT 302: Algebraic Cryptography at University of Toronto Mississauga.
• Spring 2013 CSC 2419: Advanced Topics in Cryptography at University of Toronto St George.
• Spring 2012 MAT 302: Algebraic Cryptography at University of Toronto Mississauga.
• Fall 2011 CSC 2414: Topics in Applied Discrete Math (Lattices in Cryptography and Cryptanalysis) at Univeristy of Toronto St. George.

Organizational Activities

• The Charles River Crypto Day, four times a year, rotates between MIT, BU, Microsoft Research and Northeastern.
• The weekly Cryptography and Information Security seminar at MIT.
• The weekly Theory of Computation Colloquium at MIT.
• "Nexus of Information and Computation Theories" at the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris in Spring 2016.

Program Committees

• IEEE FOCS 2017
• ACM STOC 2014
• ICALP 2017
• IACR CRYPTO 2014 2012 2010
• IACR EUROCRYPT 2012 2018
• Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2016B 2016A 2014 2012 2010
• Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) 2014
• IACR ASIACRYPT 2013 2010
• Public Key Cryptography (PKC) 2013
• Security and Cryptography in Networks (SCN) 2010

Students and Postdocs

Past Students and Postdocs

• Sergey Gorbunov (Ph.D. 2015; Winner of the George M. Sprowls award → Assistant Professor at U. Waterloo)
• Ranjit Kumaresan (postdoc 2015-16 → Researcher at Microsoft)
• Silas Richelson (postdoc 2015-17 → Assistant Professor at UC Riverside)
• Mark Zhandry (postdoc 2015-16 → Assistant Professor at Princeton)

Ph.D. Students

• Itay Berman
• Cheng Chen (co-supervised with Shafi Goldwasser)
• Akshay Degwekar
• Robin Hui
• Rio Lavigne
• Tianren Liu
• Alex Lombardi
• Prashant Vasudevan

Postdocs

• Nir Bitansky
• Omer Paneth (co-hosted with Shafi Goldwasser)

Masters Students (Current and Past)

• Isaac Grosof (M.Eng. 2016-)
• Steven Allen (M.Eng. 2015-16, co-advised with David Karger)
• Kevin King (M.Eng. 2015-16, now at Kryptonite)
• Conner Fromknecht (M.Eng. 2014-15, now at Enigma)
• Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy (M.Sc. Toronto 2014-16, now Ph.D. student at Waterloo)

Publications

Filter by topic: All Obfuscation Homomorphic Encryption and MPC Complexity and Crypto Leakage-Resilient Crypto

Implementation Projects & Software

1. libfss: A Library for Function Secret Sharing [Github Link]
   
   
2. PALISADE: A Lattice Cryptography Library [ GitHub Link ]
   
   
3. DRACL: Distributed Resource Access Control List [ Github Link | Steven Allen's Thesis ]

Links

Sravana Reddy