In this section, you’ll find a list of cryptographers from India.

We are continuously updating this list, so if you believe we’ve missed any notable cryptographers, please feel free to contribute. You can either submit a pull request or email us at cryptography.research.india@gmail.com.

Affiliation:
Location:
Ajith Suresh
Senior MPC Researcher
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
Area(s): Secure Multiparty Computation, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Arpita Patra
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)
Area(s): Secure Multiparty Computation

Ashish Choudhury
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)
Area(s): Secure Multiparty Computation

Bhavana Kanukurthi
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)
Area(s): Non-malleable Codes, Information Theory

Chaya Ganesh
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)
Area(s): Cryptography, Zero-knowledge Proofs

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Institute Chair Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Area(s): Cryptography, Hardware Security

Divya Gupta
Principal Researcher
Micrososft Research India
Area(s): Applied Cryptography, Secure Multi-party Computation, Blockchain

Divya Ravi
Assistant Professor
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area(s): Secure Multi-party Computation, Distributed Computing

Manoj M. Prabhakaran
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Area(s): Theoretical and Applied Cryptography

Mridul Nandi
Professor
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Area(s): Symmetric Cryptography

Nishanth Chandran
Principal Researcher
Micrososft Research India
Area(s): Applied Cryptography, Confidential Computing, Secure Computation

Nishat Koti
Cryptography Researcher
Aztec Labs, UK
Area(s): Secure Multi-party Computation, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Nitin Singh
Researcher
IBM Research India
Area(s): Applied Cryptography, Blockchain

Pankaj Dayama
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Research India
Area(s): Applied Cryptography, Blockchain

Pradeep Mishra
Senior FHE Researcher
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
Area(s): Homomorphic Encryption

Pratik Sarkar
Research Scientist
Supra Research
Area(s): Secure Multi-party Computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Blockchain

Pratyay Mukherjee
Senior Director of Research
Supra Research
Area(s): Cryptography in Payment and Blockchain

Rahul Rachuri
Staff Research Scientist
Visa Research
Area(s): Secure Multiparty Computation, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Sameer Wagh
Senior Research Engineer
OpenMined
Area(s): Secure Multiparty Computation, Homomorphic Encryption, Federated Learning

Shweta Agrawal
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Area(s): Theoretical Cryptography, Post-quantum cryptography

Sikhar Patranabis
Research Scientist
IBM Research India
Area(s): Theoretical and Applied Cryptography

Somitra Sanadhya
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Area(s): Cryptology and Security, Blockchain

Sruthi Sekhar
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Area(s): Cryptography

Suvradip Chakraborty
Research Scientist
Visa Research
Area(s): Public-Key Cryptography

Yashvanth Kondi
Principal Scientist
Silence Laboratories
Area(s): Secure Multiparty Computation, Zero-knowledge proofs