Researchers

India's cryptography community — spanning academia, industry, and across the globe.

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This directory focuses on faculty and industry researchers actively leading work in the field. If you're a graduate student, pre-doc, or postdoc, you're listed separately on Emerging Researchers — or check out Collaborations to connect with people working in your area, or Positions if you're looking for one. Prefer to browse by group instead? See researchers by Lab.

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Abhishek Jain

Associate Professor

Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

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Abhishek Kesarwani

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara

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Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

Staff Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

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Adithya Vadapalli

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)

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Ajay Joshi

Professor

Boston University

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Ajith Suresh

Senior MPC Researcher

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE

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Akshayaram Srinivasan

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto

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Amit Praseed

Assistant Professor

National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT Calicut)

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Amit Sahai

Symantec Chair Professor of Computer Science

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Angshuman Karmakar

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)

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Ankit Gangwal

Assistant Professor

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)

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Anshu Yadav

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)

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Anusha Vangala

Assistant Professor

National Institute of Technology Warangal

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Arpita Patra

Professor

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)

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Ashish Choudhury

Associate Professor

Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)

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Ashok Kumar Das

Professor

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)

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Atul Singh Arora

Assistant Professor

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)

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Bhavana Kanukurthi

Associate Professor

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)

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Chaya Ganesh

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)

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Dakshita Khurana

Associate Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

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Debapriya Basu Roy

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)

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Debayan Gupta

Associate Professor

Ashoka University

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Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Institute Chair Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

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Dhiman Saha

Associate Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai (IIT Bhilai)

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Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury

Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)

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Divya Gupta

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research India

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Divya Ravi

Assistant Professor

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Eshan Chattopadhyay

Associate Professor

Cornell University

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Hemanta K. Maji

Associate Professor

Purdue University

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Junaid Alam

Assistant Professor

SEAS, SRM Univeraity-AP

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Kamakhya Paul

Assistant Professor

Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research

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Kannan Srinathan

Assistant Professor

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)

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Kartik Nayak

Associate Professor

Duke University

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M S Srinath

Assistant Professor

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

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Mahavir Jhawar

Associate Professor

Ashoka University

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Manindra Agrawal

Professor & Director

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)

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Manoj M. Prabhakaran

Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

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Maria Francis

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad)

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Mridul Nandi

Professor

Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

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Mukul Ramesh Kulkarni

Director, PQC

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE

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Nilanjan Datta

Associate Professor

TCG CREST, Kolkata, India

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Nishanth Chandran

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research India

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Nishat Koti

Cryptography Researcher

Aztec Labs, UK

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Nitin Singh

Researcher

IBM Research India

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Panchami V

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam (IIIT Kottayam)

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Pankaj Dayama

Senior Technical Staff Member

IBM Research India

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Pradeep Mishra

Senior FHE Researcher

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE

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Pratik Sarkar

Research Scientist

Obsidus Labs

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Pratyay Mukherjee

Senior Director of Research

Hashgraph

Industry In India

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Raghvendra Singh Rohit

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

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Rahul Rachuri

Staff Research Scientist

Visa Research

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Ravi Kishore

Associate Professor

Mahindra University

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Rohitkumar R. Upadhyay

Applied Cryptographer

QNu Labs Pvt Ltd

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Sameer Wagh

Senior Research Engineer

OpenMined

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Sanjam Garg

Associate Professor

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

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Sanjit Chatterjee

Associate Professor

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)

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Saraswathy RV

Privacy Engineer

HP Inc.

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Shalabh Jain

Head - Security and Privacy

Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), IISc Bangalore

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Shibam Ghosh

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad)

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Shweta Agrawal

Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)

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Shyam Murthy

Technical Lead

Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), IISc Bangalore

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Sikhar Patranabis

Research Scientist

IBM Research India

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Somitra Sanadhya

Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)

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Sourav Mukhopadhyay

Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)

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Srinivas Vivek

Associate Professor

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT Bangalore)

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Srinivasan Raghuraman

Staff Research Scientist

Visa Research

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Sruthi Sekar

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

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Subhamoy Maitra

Professor

Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

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Sushmita Ruj

Associate Professor

University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW Sydney), Australia

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Suvradip Chakraborty

Research Scientist

Visa Research

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Urbi Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)

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Varsha Bhat Kukkala

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati)

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Varun Madathil

Assistant Professor

New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Vinod Ganapathy

Professor & Chair, CSA

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Vipul Goyal

Senior Scientist

NTT Research

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Yashvanth Kondi

Principal Scientist

Silence Laboratories

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