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
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
Microsoft 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
Microsoft 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
Obsidus Labs
Webpage
Secure Multi-party Computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Blockchain

Pratyay Mukherjee
Senior Director of Research
Hashgraph
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 Kanpur (IITK)
Webpage
Cryptology and Security, Blockchain

Sruthi Sekar
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

Abhishek Kesarwani
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara
Webpage
Symmetric Cryptography, MDS Codes, Differential Privacy

Adithya Vadapalli
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Oblivious RAM, Private Information Retrieval, Metadata Protection, Secure Machine Learning

Angshuman Karmakar
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
Webpage
Post-Quantum Cryptography, Lattice-Based Cryptography, Side-Channel Attacks, Homomorphic Encryption, Hardware Implementations

Ankit Gangwal
Assistant Professor
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)
Webpage
Blockchain Security, Mobile Security, Password Manager Security, Privacy, Cryptocurrency

Anshu Yadav
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
Webpage
Theoretical Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Advanced Cryptographic Primitives, Proof Systems, Foundations

Ashok Kumar Das
Professor
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)
Webpage
Cryptography, Network Security, IoT Security, Blockchain, Post-Quantum Cryptography

Atul Singh Arora
Assistant Professor
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)
Webpage
Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Complexity, Foundations of Cryptography, Device-Independent Cryptography, Quantum Information

Debapriya Basu Roy
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
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Hardware Security, VLSI for Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Side-Channel Attacks, Fault Attacks

Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)
Webpage
Boolean Functions, Stream Ciphers, Cellular Automata Cryptography, Symmetric-Key Cryptography, Cryptanalysis

Kannan Srinathan
Assistant Professor
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Cryptography, Security Protocols, Distributed Computing, Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Manindra Agrawal
Professor & Director
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
Webpage
Complexity Theory, Computational Number Theory, Algebraic Algorithms, Derandomization, Crypto Foundations

Maria Francis
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad)
Webpage
Computer Algebra, Lattice Cryptography, Pairing-Based Cryptography, Symbolic Computation, Post-Quantum Cryptography

Sanjit Chatterjee
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)
Webpage
Pairing-Based Cryptography, Identity-Based Encryption, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Provable Security, Public Key Cryptography

Shibam Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad)
Webpage
Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis, Boolean Functions, Cryptographic Primitives, Lightweight Cryptography, Stream Ciphers

Urbi Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
Webpage
Hardware Security, Physical Unclonable Functions, Side-Channel Attacks, IoT Security, Embedded Systems Security

Varsha Bhat Kukkala
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati)
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Privacy-Preserving Graph Computation, Cryptographic Protocols, Oblivious Algorithms, Applied Cryptography

Vinod Ganapathy
Professor & Chair, CSA
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc)
Webpage
Computer Security, Systems Security, Applied Cryptography, Hardware Security, Program Analysis

Mukul Ramesh Kulkarni
Director, PQC
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
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Post-Quantum Cryptography, Code-Based Cryptography, Lattice-Based Cryptography, Digital Signature Schemes, Oblivious RAM

Shalabh Jain
Head - Security and Privacy
Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), IISc Bangalore
Webpage
Secure Multi-Party Computation, Trusted Execution Environments, Differential Privacy

Shyam Murthy
Technical Lead
Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), IISc Bangalore
Webpage
Cryptanalysis of Privacy-Preserving Protocols, Secure Multi-Party Computation

Panchami V
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam (IIIT Kottayam)
Webpage
Lightweight Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Cryptanalysis, PUF-based and Blockchain-based Authentication, IoT Security

Amit Praseed
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT Calicut)
Webpage
Application-Layer DDoS Detection, Web Application Security, IoT/MQTT Protocol Security

Kamakhya Paul
Assistant Professor
Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research
Webpage
Public Key Cryptography

Srinivas Vivek
Associate Professor
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT Bangalore)
Webpage
Side-Channel Countermeasures, Homomorphic Encryption Schemes and Applications

Dhiman Saha
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai (IIT Bhilai)
Webpage
Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis, Lightweight Cryptography, Fault Analysis, Quantum Cryptanalysis

Rohitkumar R. Upadhyay
Applied Cryptographer
QNu Labs Pvt Ltd
Webpage
Secure Multi-Party Computation, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Cryptographic Protocols, Applied Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving Computation, Threshold Cryptography, Verifiable Computation

Ravi Kishore
Associate Professor
Mahindra University
Webpage
Secure Distributed Computing.

Amit Sahai
Symantec Chair Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Webpage
Program Obfuscation, Functional Encryption, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Secure Multiparty Computation

Sanjam Garg
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Webpage
Cryptographic Obfuscation, Multilinear Maps, Lattice-Based Cryptography, Witness Encryption, Secure Multiparty Computation

Vipul Goyal
Senior Scientist
NTT Research
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Non-Malleable Cryptography, Attribute-Based Encryption, Secret Sharing

Abhishek Jain
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Program Obfuscation, Functional Encryption

Dakshita Khurana
Associate Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Webpage
Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Secure Multiparty Computation, Quantum Cryptography

Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Webpage
Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Lattice-Based Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography

Akshayaram Srinivasan
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Post-Quantum Cryptography

Eshan Chattopadhyay
Associate Professor
Cornell University
Webpage
Pseudorandomness, Computational Complexity Theory, Cryptography

Kartik Nayak
Associate Professor
Duke University
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Blockchain Consensus Protocols, Applied Cryptography

Abhradeep Guha Thakurta
Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Webpage
Differential Privacy, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Statistical Learning Theory

Hemanta K. Maji
Associate Professor
Purdue University
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Information-Theoretic Cryptography, Secret Sharing

Sushmita Ruj
Associate Professor
University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW Sydney), Australia
Webpage
Applied Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Blockchain Security, Data Privacy

Srinivasan Raghuraman
Staff Research Scientist
Visa Research
Webpage
Secure Multiparty Computation, Blockchain Privacy, Functional Cryptography

Mahavir Jhawar
Associate Professor
Ashoka University
Webpage
Post-Quantum Cryptography, Lattice-Based Cryptography, Network Security, Public-Key Systems

Debayan Gupta
Associate Professor
Ashoka University
Webpage
Secure Multi-Party Computation, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Cybersecurity Design

Sourav Mukhopadhyay
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)
Webpage
Algebraic Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Ciphers, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Blockchain Security

Subhamoy Maitra
Professor
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Webpage
Boolean Functions, Stream Ciphers, RSA and Integer Factorization, Quantum Cryptography

Saraswathy RV
Privacy Engineer
HP Inc.
Webpage
Privacy and Applied Cryptography

Raghvendra Singh Rohit
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Webpage
Cryptography, Theoretical and automated cryptanalysis, Secure cryptographic implementations, Cryptography laws and policies