Agni Datta

Predoctoral Researcher at IITB

agnidatta [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com

I am presently at the Trust Lab, IIT Bombay, hosted by Chethan Kamath and Sruthi Sekar. During the summer, I was a research assistant at CISPA under Doreen Riepel. I completed my master’s thesis under Matteo Campanelli and received the integrated master’s degree in computer science from VIT Bhopal University, India.

I am broadly interested in theoretical computer science, with my primary focus on cryptography and its interface with complexity theory.

> I coordinate the weekly seminars at IIT Bombay. If you’d like to give a talk on cryptography, computational complexity, or related topics, please feel free to reach out.

Publications

My present work lies in theoretical computer science and cryptography, where authorship follows the Hardy–Littlewood rule. Earlier publications and student papers in cybersecurity and systems security, listed on my Google Scholar, do not observe this rule.

Fiat–Shamir Goes Rational (Or: On the Perils of Sublinear Verification)
Matteo Campanelli, Agni Datta
SoK: A Taxonomy for Cryptographic Accumulators and Vector Commitments with Applications to Set Membership Proofs
Matteo Campanelli, Agni Datta, Yash Kartik, Dimitris Kolonelos

Talks and Seminars

Fiat-Shamir Goes Rational. Cryptography Group, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel (May 2025).
Fiat-Shamir Goes Rational. Cryptography & Security Group, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (Dec. 2024).
Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry. Workshop on Windows Forensics, CAPT, Bhopal, India (Jun. 2023).
Oshin OS: Risk Mitigation for Minors. National Conference on Emerging Technologies, CAPT, Bhopal, India (Feb. 2023).

Service to the Profession

External Reviewer, 45th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT), 2026
External Reviewer, 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2025
External Reviewer, Journal of Cryptology (JoC), 2025

Hobbies

My recreations are unremarkable and largely solitary. I read widely across scientific and literary texts, with a steady inclination toward classical writings, photography, technical hikes, and occasional public service. Of these, photography occupies me most regularly, though I have kept no formal archive. A portfolio or brief notes may appear here in time, should circumstance and inclination permit. More recently, I have taken an interest in the study of fonts, typography, and typesetting, and I spend considerable time experimenting with design and layout.

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