About me

I am a final-year PhD student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where I am advised by Dakshita Khurana. I was a research intern at Fujitsu Research working with Jiahui Liu for Summer 2025. During Spring and Summer 2024, I was a research assistant/collaborator at Bocconi University working with Alon Rosen. I took a research internship at NTT Research working with Justin Holmgren during Summer 2022.

I was previously a visiting graduate student at the “Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography” and “The Quantum Wave in Computing” workshop at Simons Institute during Spring 2020. I have received my Master’s degree in Computer Science from UIUC, and my Bachelor’s degree with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

I enjoy thinking about open problems in classical and quantum proof systems.

Publications

*Authors are listed in alphabetical order; this is convention for theoretical computer science.

• Unclonable Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge
  Ruta Jawale and Dakshita Khurana (Asiacrypt 2024)
• Locally Covert Learning
  Justin Holmgren and Ruta Jawale* (ITC 2023)
• SNARGs for P from Sub-Exponential DDH and QR
  James Hulett, Ruta Jawale*, Dakshita Khurana, and Akshayaram Srinivasan (Eurocrypt 2022)
• SNARGs for Bounded-Depth Computations and PPAD-Hardness from Sub-Exponential LWE
  Ruta Jawale, Yael Tauman Kalai, Dakshita Khurana, and Rachel Zhang (STOC 2021)
• Lossy Correlation-Intractability and PPAD-Hardness from Sub-Exponential LWE
  Ruta Jawale and Dakshita Khurana