Dakshita Khurana

Dakshita Khurana is a Scientist at NTT Research. She is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on cryptography and its interactions with quantum information. She has made several contributions to secure protocol design, including to succinct and zero-knowledge proof systems, non-malleable protocols and secure computation. Her work has also utilized cryptographic hardness to improve our understanding of other aspects of theoretical computer science, e.g., by establishing the hardness of finding Nash equilibria under standard lattice assumptions. She is currently working to understand the type of computational hardness that would enable cryptography in a quantum world.

Dakshita is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, Google Research Scholar award, Visa Research faculty award, and a Graduate of Last Decade (GOLD) Alumni award from IIT-Delhi. In addition, her work has been funded through grants and gifts from the NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, C3AI and Jump Arches.