About me
I earned my Ph.D. and my M.S. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Dakshita Khurana.
During my Ph.D., I held several research positions. I was a research intern at Fujitsu Research in Summer 2025 working with Jiahui Liu. In Spring and Summer 2024, I was a research assistant and collaborator at Bocconi University working with Alon Rosen. I was also a research intern at NTT Research in Summer 2022 working with Justin Holmgren. I was a visiting graduate student at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing during the Spring 2020 programs Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography and The Quantum Wave in Computing.
I earned a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics. I was an instructor of record at UC Berkeley for the Summer 2019 offering of CS 161 : Computer Security while I was an undergraduate. This work was recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from UC Berkeley in 2020.
Research
*Authors are listed in alphabetical order; this is convention for theoretical computer science.
- A New Approach to Arguments of Quantum Knowledge
James Bartusek, Ruta Jawale*, Justin Raizes, and Kabir Tomer (CRYPTO 2026, TQC 2026) - MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
Andrea Coladangelo, Ruta Jawale*, Dakshita Khurana, Giulio Malavolta, and Hendrik Waldner (Quantum (Journal) 2026) - 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
