Aniket Kate

Prof. Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. He also serves as Chief Research Officer at Supra, a blockchain technology company. His research focuses on applied cryptography, privacy, and secure distributed systems, with a particular emphasis on blockchain technologies, multi-party computation (MPC), and crypto-economic security. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and a Master's from IIT Bombay.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada (Advisor: Ian Goldberg)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Germany)
• M.Tech. in Computer Science, IIT Bombay, India

Research Interests:

• Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Scalability
• Privacy-Preserving Technologies (e.g., anonymous communication, metadata privacy)
• Crypto-Economic Security Mechanisms
• Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Threshold Cryptography
• Secure Distributed Consensus and Ledgers

Awards & Honors:

• NSF CAREER Award (2019)
• Best Paper Award at COSN 2015

Service & Leadership:

• Program Committee Member for IEEE S&P, CCS, FC, and others
• Editorial Board Member at ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
• Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminars, 3Rand Workshop, and Decentralized Credit Networks (DCN) Workshop

Labs & Teams: Leads the Freedom Lab at Purdue, focusing on decentralized privacy and security systems.