Akshayaram Srinivasan

Akshayaram Srinivasan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He is a member of the Theory Group, with a focus on foundational cryptography. Previously, he was at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley under Prof. Sanjam Garg. His research emphasizes Secure Multiparty Computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, and Post-Quantum Cryptography. He has received awards such as the Eurocrypt 2018 Best Paper Award and the Google India Research Award (2022). He teaches courses like Cryptography from Lattices and has advised students including Ziyang Jin and Siddharth Agarwal. He serves on program committees for major cryptography conferences and contributes to cryptographic inference systems like Delphi and Muse.