Sruthi Sekar (advised by Bhavana Kanukurthi) has received an ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention for her dissertation titled “Near-Optimal Non-Malleable Codes and Leakage Resilient Secret Sharing Schemes”.

Sruthi Sekar received an ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention for her dissertation titled “Near-Optimal Non-Malleable Codes and Leakage Resilient Secret Sharing Schemes”. Her dissertation makes fundamental contributions in our understanding of cryptographic primitives such as non-malleable codes, secret sharing schemes and randomness extractors. Sruthi’s doctoral dissertation work was done at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under the supervision of Bhavana Kanukurthi and Manjunath Krishnapur.