Manoj M. Prabhakaran

Manoj M. Prabhakaran is the Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research spans Cryptography, Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms, and Complexity Theory, with a focus on Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs. As Principal Investigator of the IITB Trust Lab, he has organized major events like the 2017 MPC School and Workshop.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science

His work explores foundational questions in Cryptography, including Randomness Complexity, Non-malleable Codes, and Homomorphic Encryption. Recent publications address Leakage-Resilient Cryptography and Interactive Proofs. He advises Ph.D. students like Debasish Ray Chawdhuri and Kaartik Bhushan, and his email is publicly listed.