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Prof. Venkata Koppula is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi, where he works on advancing the foundations of cryptography. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science before returning to India in 2020.

His research explores modern cryptography with a focus on incompressibility, post-quantum security, and functional encryption. His contributions have been recognized internationally, including the Best Paper Award at Crypto 2020, and nationally with the Early Career Research Award (2024).

Recent Publications

• Rishab Goyal, Venkata Koppula, and Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree. A Note on Adaptive Security in Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption. CRYPTO 2025
• Rishab Goyal, Venkata Koppula, Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree, and Aman Verma. Incompressible functional encryption. ITCS 2025
• Rishab Goyal, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Venkata Koppula, Ryo Nishimaki, Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree, Takashi Yamakawa. Non-Committing Identity based Encryption: Constructions and Applications. PKC 2025
• Kaartik Bhushan, Rishab Goyal, Venkata Koppula, Varun Narayanan, Manoj Prabhakaran, and Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree. Leakage-resilient incompressible cryptography: Constructions and barriers. ASIACRYPT 2024
• Avantika Agarwal, Sevag Gharibian, Venkata Koppula, and Dorian Rudolph. Quantum Polynomial Hierarchies: Karp-lipton, error reduction, and lower bounds. MFCS 2024
• Kaartik Bhushan, Venkata Koppula, and Manoj Prabhakaran. Homomorphic indistinguishability obfuscation and its applications. ITCS 2024