Shweta Agrawal

Head, aRtCS

Professor

Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman Chair

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Cryptography Quantum Computing

cse.iitm.ac.in/~shwetaag/

shweta [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

Research

My research interests are in cryptography and generally, theoretical computer science. My work focusses mainly on post-quantum cryptography, notably, cryptography based on the hardness of lattice problems. Recently, I have also been exploring design of cryptography from isogenies and coding theory.

More generally, I am interested in exploring mathematical structures that enable novel, advanced capabilities in cryptography, in the classical as well as quantum regime. I am fascinated by the interplay of structure and randomness that lies at the heart of cryptography, not unlike abstract expressionism!

About

Shweta Agrawal is a professor and the Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman chair at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. She works in the area of cryptography, with a focus on post-quantum cryptography. Her work has received over 5000 citations and has appeared at flagship venues in cryptography. She has won multiple awards and honours such as the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award), Swarnajayanti award, the ACM India award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing by a Woman, a best paper award at flagship conference Eurocrypt, Google India faculty award, BY award for excellence in research and teaching and best reviewer awards at CCS, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt. She has been an invited speaker at prestigious global conferences like Asiacrypt and "Women in Mathematics", served as program co-chair for the flagship conference Asiacrypt and serves as associate editor for the "SIAM Journal of Computing", "Journal of Cryptology" and "Information and Computation".