In this space, you can find a list of some of the top cryptography researchers in India, with a focus on those working in academia and industry. We are constantly updating this list, so please let us know if we have missed any notable cryptographers.

Let’s meet some of the leading minds in the field of cryptography in India:

Ajith Suresh
Senior MPC Researcher
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Arpita Patra
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation

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

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

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

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Institute Chair Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Webpage
Cryptography, Hardware Security

Divya Gupta
Principal Researcher
Micrososft Research India
Webpage
Applied Cryptography, Secure Multi-party Computation, Blockchain

Divya Ravi
Assistant Professor
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Webpage
Secure Multi-party Computation, Distributed Computing

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

Mridul Nandi
Professor
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Webpage
Symmetric Cryptography

Nishanth Chandran
Principal Researcher
Micrososft Research India
Webpage
Applied Cryptography, Confidential Computing, Secure Computation

Nishat Koti
Cryptography Researcher
Aztec Labs, UK
Webpage
Secure Multi-party Computation, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Nitin Singh
Researcher
IBM Research India
Webpage
Applied Cryptography, Blockchain

Pankaj Dayama
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Research India
Webpage
Applied Cryptography, Blockchain

Pradeep Mishra
Senior FHE Researcher
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
Webpage
Homomorphic Encryption

Pratik Sarkar
Research Scientist
Supra Research
Webpage
Secure Multi-party Computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Blockchain

Pratyay Mukherjee
Senior Director of Research
Supra Research
Webpage
Cryptography in Payment and Blockchain

Rahul Rachuri
Staff Research Scientist
Visa Research
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Sameer Wagh
Senior Research Engineer
OpenMined
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Homomorphic Encryption, Federated Learning

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

Sikhar Patranabis
Research Scientist
IBM Research India
Webpage
Theoretical and Applied Cryptography

Somitra Sanadhya
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Webpage
Cryptology and Security, Blockchain

Sruthi Sekhar
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Webpage
Cryptography

Suvradip Chakraborty
Research Scientist
Visa Research
Webpage
Public-Key Cryptography

Yashvanth Kondi
Principal Scientist
Silence Laboratories
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Zero-knowledge proofs