Nishanth Chandran

Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India; Concert South Indian Classical Violinist; Co-founder, Thillaisthanam Foundation

Role: Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Location: Bengaluru, KA, IN
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Nishanth Chandran

Nishanth Chandran is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, India where he works on problems in cryptography, cloud security, confidential computing and secure computation. Prior to joining MSRI, Nishanth held positions at AT & T Labs and MSR Redmond. Nishanth is a recipient of the 2010 Chorafas International Award for exceptional achievements in research and his work has been covered in science journals and the media at venues such as Nature and MIT Technology Review. He has published several papers in top computer science conferences and journals such as ACM CCS, S&P, Crypto, Eurocrypt, STOC, FOCS, SIAM Journal of Computing, Journal of the ACM, and so on. His work on position-based cryptography was selected as one of the top 3 works and invited to QIP 2011 as a plenary talk. Nishanth has served on the technical program committee of the top cryptography and security conferences on several occasions and holds several US and international patents. Nishanth received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA, and B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Hindustan College of Engineering (Anna University, Chennai).Nishanth is also a top ranking (A grade) All India Radio South Indian Classical (Carnatic) Violinist and has performed at international venues such as the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles (as part of legendary sitarist Late Pandit Ravi Shankar’s ensemble) and the Madras Music Academy, Chennai. He is a co-founder of the Thillaisthanam Foundation that aims to bring concert quality Carnatic music in an intimate home setting to a diverse audience ranging from newcomers to connoisseurs, to collectively experience the joy of music.

Experience

Senior Principal Researcher
Microsoft
Jul 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science
2001 — 2005
UCLA
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science
2007 — 2011
UCLA
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science
2005 — 2007

Skills

Cryptography
Security
Research
Theoretical Computer Science
Algorithms
Computer Science
Algorithm Design

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