vinod vaikuntanathan
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32 Vassar Street, G-696
Cambridge MA 02139.
Phone: 617 324 8444
vinodv at csail dot mit dot edu
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Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering, MIT EECS and CSAIL
Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer, Duality Technologies
Curriculum Vitae [
pdf] and a short
biography.
Publications
Teaching
Organizational Activities
Students & Postdocs
Links
Teaching
Organizational Activities
- Simons Semester on Lattices.
- 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.
- The yearly Masterworks event at MIT.
- Bertinoro Workshop on Lattice Algorithms and Cryptography (LATCA@BiCi), Bertinoro, Italy, May 2018.
- Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop, Cambridge, MA, March 2018.
- Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) 2018 Conference, Cambridge, MA, January 2018.
- "Nexus of Information and Computation Theories" at the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris in Spring 2016.
Program Committees
Students and Postdocs
Past Students and Postdocs
- Sergey Gorbunov (Ph.D. 2015 → Assistant Professor at U. Waterloo)
- Prashant Vasudevan (Ph.D. 2018 → Postdoc at UC Berkeley → Assistant Professor at NUS)
- Itay Berman (Ph.D. 2019 → D.E. Shaw)
- Akshay Degwekar (Ph.D. 2019 → TwoSigma)
- Tianren Liu (Ph.D. 2019 → Postdoc at University of Washington → Assistant Professor at Peking University)
- Rio Lavigne (Ph.D. 2020, co-advised with Virginia Vassilevska Williams → Apple)
- Aikaterini Sotiraki (Ph.D. 2020 → Postdoc at UC Berkeley → Assistant Professor at Yale)
- Alex Lombardi (Ph.D. 2022 → Postdoc at UC Berkeley → Assistant Professor at Princeton)
- Leo de Castro (Ph.D. 2024 → Vice President at JP Morgan)
- Surya Mathialagan (Ph.D. 2025, co-advised with Virginia Vassilevska Williams → Postdoc at NTT Research)
- Nir Bitansky (postdoc 2014-17 → Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University)
- 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)
- Ron Rothblum (postdoc 2017-18 → Assistant Professor at Technion)
- Prabhanjan Ananth (postdoc 2017-19 → Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara)
- Omer Paneth (postdoc 2017-19 → Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University)
- Xiao Wang (postdoc 2018-19 → Assistant Professor at Northwestern University)
- Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (postdoc 2018-20 → Assistant Professor at Cornell)
- Rishab Goyal (postdoc 2020-22 → Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Zhengzhong Jin (postdoc 2022-24 → Assistant Professor at Northeastern)
- Jiahui Liu (postdoc 2023-24 → Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research)
- Alex Poremba (postdoc 2023-25, joint with Peter Shor → Assistant Professor at Boston University)
Ph.D. Students
Postdocs
Links
Thank You to
Sloan Foundation,
Connaught Foundation,
NSERC,
DARPA,
NEC Corporation,
NSF,
Microsoft and
Northrop Grumman for their generous support.
