Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a main researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on cryptography, especially a type called homomorphic encryption. He shared the 2022 Gödel Prize with Zvika Brakerski and Craig Gentry. He also co-founded a data company called Duality Tech, which uses technologies he created 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 in 2009 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Shafi Goldwasser. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked as a Josef Raviv postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and from 2010 to 2011, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research. From the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2013, he taught as a professor at the University of Toronto. In the fall of 2013, he became a faculty member at MIT.