Dr. Aniket Kate
Chief Research Officer
PhD in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
About
Dr. Aniket Kate brings over 15 years of research experience in applied cryptography, distributed systems, and digital privacy to Supra. He has been actively working blockchains for last ten years. His high-impact projects include KZG (polynomial) commitments, DKG, Layer-1/2 transaction privacy, and distributed randomness oracles.
Interests and expertise
I lead the research efforts at Supra as Chief Research Officer. I feel lucky to work with such a dedicated, illustrious research team. My area of interest at Supra focuses distributed systems primitive, cryptographic protocols, and game-theoretic analysis for secure Web3 solutions.
Commentary
In 2020, I began my consulting journey with the Supra team. I was immediately impressed by their relentless exploration of diverse avenues, employing rigorous formal analysis and through empirical investigations. Recognizing the immense potential to contribute to the Web3 landscape, I made the decision to leave my comfortable academic position and join Supra full-time.
At Supra, we are extremely thorough with our solutions both theoretically and empirically; there are no short-cuts. As a result I am confident about the security as well as scalability of our solutions in practice.
Selected research publications
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2024
KeyClub and RandRec: Two New Social Key Recovery Schemes
with Dr. Pratyay Mukherjee, Dr. Pratik Sarkar, Bhaskar Roberts, Hamza Saleem
SUPRATECH | Whitepaper
Sailfish: Towards Improving the Latency of DAG-based BFT
with Dr. Nibesh Shrestha, Rohan Shrothrium and Kartik Nayak
2023
SUPRATECH
FlexiRand: Output Private (Distributed) VRFs and Application to Blockchains
with Dr. Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Siva Maradana and Dr. Pratyay Mukherjee • To appear at 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023
SUPRATECH
Non-interactive VSS using Class Groups and Application to DKG
with Dr. Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Dr. Pratyay Mukherjee, Hamza Saleem, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan • Preprint
SUPRATECH
DORA: Distributed Oracle Agreement with Simple Majority
with Prasanth Chakka, Dr. Saurabh Joshi, Joshua D. Tobkin and Dr. David Yang • 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2023
Order but Not Execute in Order
with Tiantian Gong • Preprint
EESMR: Energy Efficient BFT-SMR for the masses
with Adithya Bhat, Akhil Bandarupalli, Manish Nagaraj, Saurabh Bagchi and Michael K. Reiter • To appear at 24th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2023
2022
D-KODE: Distributed Mechanism to Manage a Billion Discrete-log Keys
with Dr. Easwar Vivek Mangipudi • ACM Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), 2022
2021
The Unique Chain Rule and its Applications
with Adithya Bhat, Akhil Bandarupalli, Saurabh Bagchi and Michael K. Reiter • Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2023
Collusion-Deterrent Threshold Information Escrow
with Dr. Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Donghang Lu and Alexandros Psomas • Collusion-Deterrent Threshold Information Escrow: IEEE CSF
“At Supra, we are extremely thorough with our solutions both theoretically and empirically; there are no short-cuts. As a result I am confident about the security as well as scalability of our solutions in practice.”
Dr. Aniket Kate
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