Sruthi Sekar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the principal investigator for Trust Lab IITB. Her research interests span both theoretical and applied cryptography, as well as theoretical computer science more broadly. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Master’s and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Her PhD thesis received an Honorable Mention at the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022. She was also awarded the TCS PhD Fellowship and received the Prof. P. L. Bhatnagar Medal (Gold Medal for her Master’s degree) from IISc.