Nikhil Vanjani
Senior Researcher at Babylon Labs
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Vanjani is a Senior Researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of cryptography and blockchain systems, focused on designing expressive, efficient, and privacy-preserving primitives that translate provable security into real-world deployments. His research portfolio centers on functional encryption—discovering novel applications, improving security and efficiency for restricted function classes, and engineering lighter alternatives where FE is impractical. He has industry research experience implementing zero-knowledge stacks (Plonky2/Plonky3) and BLS signatures at organizations including 0xPARC and Algorand, and is currently based in Mountain View while completing a PhD at Carnegie Mellon. Comfortable bridging academia and engineering, he has a track record of moving theoretical constructs toward production-ready blockchain tooling. An understated strength is his focus on pragmatic trade-offs—prioritizing constrained, high-impact cryptographic designs that meet real-world performance goals.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (7)
python5
blockchain-network5
blockchain-platform5
machine-learning5
data-science4
blockchain4
corda4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilvanjani/nikhilvanjani.github.io
May 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
nikhilvanjani/concrete
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Concrete: TFHE Compiler that converts python programs into FHE equivalent
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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