Scholar

Mayank Varia

Google Scholar ID: lneZSfIAAAAJ

Boston University, Computing and Data Sciences

cryptographysecurity

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2025

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2025

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Academic Achievements

General chair of IACR CRYPTO 2026; Member of the IACR Board of Directors, received Best Paper award at CS&Law 2025; Hosting Dan Roche as a visiting professor at BU; Received CDS Distinguished Leadership Award and a Hariri Institute Innovation Award; Hosted Civic Voices event to discuss privacy tech with two U.S. Representatives; Moved to BU CDS as an Associate Professor, and received tenure; General chair of IEEE CSF 2020, and PI of a $4M DARPA SIEVE grant; Featured in BU’s Annual Report and a BU Research video; Moved to BU Computer Science as a Research Associate Professor; Received two NSF grants for $1.5M to design, develop, and apply MPC in practice; Created two courses, appointed as BU RISCS co-director and MIT research affiliate; Joined BU’s Hariri Institute as Director of Research for the $10M MACS Frontier grant.

Research Experience

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University; Director of the CDS Hub for Civic Tech Impact; Co-director of BU’s Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS); Member of the BU Security Group; Member of the Cyber Security, Law, and Society Alliance; Affiliate of BU’s Computer Science department.

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Background

Research interests span theoretical and applied cryptography and its applications throughout and beyond computing & data sciences. Designs and develops crypto algorithms with provable, composable security guarantees; deploys privacy-respecting systems for data scientists to work with data they cannot see; examines the social aspects of cryptography, including its impacts on law and public policy.

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