Title:

Ripple Network

 

Speaker:

Prof. Aniket Kate

Associate Professor,
Purdue University,
West Lafayette,
Indiana

 

Bio:

Prof. Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is an applied cryptographer and a privacy researcher. His research builds on and expands applied cryptography, distributed computing, and data-driven analysis to solve security/privacy problems in decentralized environments. His current projects focus on communication privacy and distributed ledgers (or blockchains). He is a recipient of the 2019 NSF CAREER Award.

Before joining Purdue in 2015, he was a junior faculty member at Saarland University, Germany. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany. He has received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his masters from IIT-Bombay, India.