Salil P. Vadhan

Salil P. Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). He leads the Privacy Tools Project and co-leads the OpenDP open-source differential privacy initiative. His research focuses on computational complexity, cryptography, randomness in computation, and data privacy.

He has taught courses such as CS 1200: Introduction to Algorithms and Their Limitations, and CS 229cr: Spectral Graph Theory in Computer Science. Vadhan holds editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science, and serves on steering committees for the Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) and the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC).

Awarded the 2018 ACM Fellowship for contributions to theoretical computer science, he was also elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2025. His professional activities include roles with the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society and the Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity.