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From theory to practice: the Marvelous journey of Mighty MPC

Series: CSA Faculty Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Arpita Patra, Associate Professor, Dept. of CSA, IISc

Date/Time: Feb 02 16:00:00

Location: CSA Lecture Hall (Room No. 117, Ground Floor)

Abstract:
Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) is the standard-bearer and holy-grail problem in Cryptography that permits a collection of data-owners to compute a collaborative result, without any of them gaining any knowledge about the data provided by the other, except what is derivable from the result of the computation. The area was introduced in the seminal work of Yao in 1982. Since then, the theory of MPC has seen some of the most fundamental results in theory of computation. Technology follows techniques and so a huge effort has gone in for turning techniques of MPC to technology over the years. In this talk, I plan to cover the contribution we made towards solving real-world problems via applied MPC. The broad domains we tackle include social good, Health, FinTech and Smart cities.

Speaker Bio:
Arpita Patra is presently an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science. Her area of interest is Cryptography, focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of secure multiparty computation protocols. She received her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and held post-doctoral positions at University of Bristol, UK, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research has been recognized with Google Privacy Research Faculty Award 2023, J P Morgan Chase Faculty Award 2022, SONY Faculty Innovation Award 2021, Google Research Award 2020, NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award 2018, SERB Women Excellence award 2016, INAE Young Engineer award 2016 and associateships with various scientific bodies such as Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), National Academy of Engineering (INAE ), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). She is a council member of Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS). She has coauthored a textbook on Multi-party Computation titled “Secure Multiparty Computation against Passive Adversaries”.

Host Faculty: Prof. Sumit Kumar Mandal