Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a lead researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on cryptography, including a type of encryption called homomorphic encryption. In 2022, he shared the Gödel Prize with Zvika Brakerski and Craig Gentry. Additionally, he co-founded a data company named Duality Tech. This company uses technologies he created that are related to homomorphic encryption.

Education

Vaikuntanathan earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, with guidance from Shafi Goldwasser. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a Josef Raviv postdoctoral fellow at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. From 2010 to 2011, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research. In the Fall of 2011 through the Spring of 2013, he taught as a professor at the University of Toronto. In the Fall of 2013, he became a professor at MIT.