Saikumar Yadugiri

Hello There! I am Saikumar Yadugiri. You can call me Sai (pronounced po-sai-don ). I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the computer science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am currently working with Prof. Rishab Goyal on various flavors of functional encryption. I am broadly interested in the theoretical aspects of classical and (post-)quantum cryptography.

Previously, I was a student in the computer science department at the University of California, Santa Barbara pursuing my master’s degree in computer science. I worked with Prof. Prabhanjan Ananth for my master’s thesis requirement, in which we utilized functional encryption to eliminate interaction in the private set intersection problem.

I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras(IIT Madras). I have been immensely fortunate to be advised by Prof. Shweta Agrawal for my Bachelor’s thesis on recognizing and applying blockchain-based solutions to various everyday scenarios. My thesis was part of the preliminary phase 1 of National Blockchain Project.

I was also gainfully employed at Oracle R&D in Bengaluru, India as a software development engineer working on Oracle Cloud Database solutions.