About Shweta Agrawal

Prof. Shweta Agrawal is an associate professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. She earned her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, and did her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of research is cryptography and information security, with a focus on post quantum cryptography. She has won multiple awards and honours such as the Swarnajayanti award, best paper award at Eurocrypt, invited speaker at prestigious conferences like Asiacrypt, Latincrypt and “Women in Mathematics” and program co-chair for the flagship conference Asiacrypt.