Dr. Divya Gupta
Award Year 2021 | Degree Year 2011
Dr. Divya Gupta received Bachelor and Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2011 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016.
Dr. Divya Gupta is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research India. Her research interest is cryptography and its applications to security and privacy. Currently her work at MSR focusses on secure multiparty computation and blockchains, and in particular, making cryptography practical, usable, and performant. Her works have opened new avenues for blockchain-based solutions and privacy-preserving machine learning. She has democratized blockchains by reducing the cost of blockchain participants from heavy servers to mobile phones. Her work has enabled the largest evaluations of privacy-preserving machine learning predictions till date.
Her dissertation was recognized by the Dissertation Fellowship and the Dimitris N. Chorafas Dissertation Award, given for outstanding work in engineering sciences, medicine and the natural sciences. She has published over twenty papers at top conferences in cryptography and security, has multiple patents, and several of her papers have been invited to the Journal of Cryptology, an honor reserved for the top few papers.
In honoring Dr. Divya Gupta, IIT Delhi recognizes her outstanding contributions to research. Through her contributions and achievements, Dr. Gupta has brought glory to the Institute.
