Chaya Ganesh

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science. My research interests are in Cryptography and Security. Before joining IISc, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Crypto group at Aarhus University. I received my PhD from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

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Publications

Following the Hardy–Littlewood rule, authors are listed alphabetically unless marked with *.

Preprints
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2012
On-Line/Off-Line Leakage Resilient Secure Computation Protocols
Chaya Ganesh, Vipul Goyal, Satya Lokam
Indocrypt 2012
Communication Complexity of Efficient Two-party Computation Protocols
Chaya Ganesh, C. Pandurangan
WISTP 2012

Teaching

Cryptography: Fall 2023 (co-taught with Arpita Patra), Fall 2022 (co-taught with Sanjit Chatterjee), Fall 2021 (co-taught with Arpita Patra), Fall 2020 (co-taught with Arpita Patra).

Proof Systems in Cryptography: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021.

Advising

Current students

Graduated students

Service

I served as the Program Co-Chair for Theory and Practice of Blockchains (TPBC) 2021, and helped organize TPBC 2020 and TPBC 2019.

Program Committees

2026: TCC, ASIACRYPT, ACM CCS, SCN, AsiaCCS, Indocrypt
2025: CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT
2024: TCC, CRYPTO, ACM CCS, EUROCRYPT
2023: CRYPTO, ACM CCS, EUROCRYPT, PKC, FC, ACNS
2022: ASIACRYPT, ACM CCS, PETS, CANS, FC, ACNS
2021: CRYPTO, ACISP, PETS
2020: Indocrypt, WPES, PODC, PETS, IFIP SEC, SBC
2019: Indocrypt, BCC, CANS
2018: CANS, IFIP SEC

Acknowledgements

My research is being and/or has been funded, in part, by a start-up grant from the Indian Institute of Science, a SERB Core Research Grant, IBM Academic Award, Google India Research Award, Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, Infosys Young Investigator Award, and Protocol Labs Research Grant.

Contact

Computer Science and Automation
Indian Institute of Science
Office 334, CSA
IISc, Bengaluru 560012
Email: chaya [at] iisc [dot] ac [dot] in