Home People Vinod Vaikuntanathan People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff Instructors Ford Professor of Engineering, [CS and AI+D] vinodv@csail.mit.edu (617) 324-8444 Office: 32-G696 Website Research Areas Artificial Intelligence + Machine LearningSecurity and CryptographyTheory of Computation Latest News More News April 14, 2026 Vinod Vaikuntanathan earns 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship The award is given out yearly to leading thinkers, innovators, and creators across art, science, and scholarship to tackle current issues. September 17, 2025 2025-26 EECS Faculty Award Roundup This ongoing listing of awards and recognitions won by our faculty is added to all year, beginning in September. March 19, 2025 Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computation MIT researchers crafted a new approach that could allow anyone to run operations on encrypted data without decrypting it first. September 3, 2024 Toward a code-breaking quantum computer Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography. July 25, 2024 Department of EECS names new chair recipients The new chairs became effective July 1.