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Vinod Vaikuntanathan teaches Advanced Topics in Cryptography: Learning with Errors and Post-Quantum Cryptography (Course 6.876J) in 2018.
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.

March 12, 2026

2026 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named

MIT professors Amos Winter and Nikolai Zeldovich are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.

February 20, 2026

Chip-processing method could assist cryptography schemes to keep data secure

By enabling two chips to authenticate each other using a shared fingerprint, this technique can improve privacy and energy efficiency.

April 11, 2025

New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data

The approach maintains an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract secret information.

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.

March 18, 2025

Department of EECS announces 2025 promotions and appointments

All promotions and appointments will take effect July 1, 2025.

October 1, 2024

New security protocol shields data from attackers during cloud-based computation

The technique leverages quantum properties of light to guarantee security while preserving the accuracy of a deep-learning model.

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.

August 28, 2024

3 Questions: How to prove humanity online

AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters?

June 5, 2024

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25

Ranking at the top for the 13th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 11 subject areas.