Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Data is powerful, and yet, our ability to make discoveries using data often requires collaboration among different entities on their individual data repositories, a process that is hampered by privacy concerns and regulatory mandates. In this talk, I will describe how advances in cryptography over the past decade can help simultaneously achieve the seemingly opposing goals of collaborating on data and that of protecting data privacy.

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and the chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies. Vinod is the co-inventor of most modern fully homomorphic encryption systems and many other lattice-based (post-quantum secure) cryptographic primitives. His work has been recognized with a George M. Sprowls PhD thesis award, and IBM Josef Raviv Fellowship, a Sloan Faculty Fellowship, a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and a Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Award. He holds SM and PhD degrees from MIT and a BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Faculty Hosts: Venkatesan Guruswami, Brian Parno

Refreshments: 3:30 pm (outside the room)

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