Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is the MIT algorithms lead in the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies. He is the co-inventor of most modern fully homomorphic encryption systems and many other lattice-based (post-quantum secure) cryptographic primitives. He has received an IBM Josef Raviv Fellowship, an NSF Career Award, a Sloan Faculty Fellowship, a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and a Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Award. He earned a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an SM and PhD from MIT.

Selected Publications

• Ragavan, S., Vaikuntanathan, V. (2024). Space-Efficient and Noise-Robust Quantum Factoring. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO).
• Henzinger, A., Hong, M. M., Corrigan-Gibbs, H., Meiklejohn, S., Vaikuntanathan, V. (2023). One Server for the Price of Two: Simple and Fast Single-Server Private Information Retrieval. USENIX Security Symposium.
• Lombardi, A., Vaikuntanathan, V., Wichs, D. (2020). Statistical ZAPR Arguments from Bilinear Maps. EUROCRYPT 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques.

Media

• August 23, 2024: MIT News, Toward a code-breaking quantum computer
• January 16, 2019: MIT News, Fortifying the future of cryptography.
• August 17, 2018: MIT News, More efficient security for cloud-based machine learning.