Vipul Goyal
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Vipul Goyal is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. Previously, he spent seven years working as a researcher in the Cryptography and Complexity group at Microsoft Research, India. He is a winner of several honors including a 2016 ACM CCS test of time award, a JP Morgan Faculty Fellowship, a Microsoft Research graduate fellowship, and a Google outstanding graduate student award. He was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 list of people changing science and healthcare in 2013. Goyal has published over 80 technical papers at top conferences in cryptography such as at Crypto, Eurocrypt, STOC, FOCS, and ACM CCS.
Education
2009 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
2004 B.Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi
Affiliations
Research Interests
- access control and authorization
- AI and ML for security
- anonymity
- authentication and passwords
- blockchain
- cloud security
- cryptography
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- data security and privacy
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- ML and AI
- network security
- privacy
- security
- security of AI and ML
- systems security
- Usability and human behavior
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab names 2019 Presidential Fellows
Each year, CyLab awards Presidential Fellowships to high-achieving exemplary graduate students researching topics around security and privacy. This year's Fellows have been announced.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers create tool to help prevent cyberattacks on vehicles
CyLab's Sekar Kulandaivel and colleagues have developed a network-mapping tool to help keep vehicles protected from cyberattacks. The tool meticulously maps a car's network in under 30 minutes on less than $50 worth of hardware.
Pittsburgh Business Times
Panat, Goyal, and Hong discuss cybersecurity with PBT
CyLab’s Rahul Panat, Vipul Goyal, and Jason Hong were recently quoted by Pittsburgh Business Times about the cybersecurity projects they are working on. Believing that blockchain can help secure the energy grid, Panat and Goyal are planning to create a complete prototype of the eight-node blockchain system. Meanwhile, Hong is designing an IoT Hub prototype, a system that would manage the security of all IoT devices in a home or business.
CMU Engineering
Securing the energy grid with blockchains
The US Department of Energy has awarded two Carnegie Mellon researchers a $400,000 grant to strengthen grid security using blockchain technology.
WIRED
CyLab’s Vipul Goyal on HTC’s new “blockchain phone”
WIRED interviewed CyLab’s Vipul Goyal about HTC’s new blockchain phone. “A private key protected by special hardware architecture and OS interface can be far more secure than one stored by a wallet app downloaded from an app store,” said Goyal, who also added that another advantage of blockchain phones is battery efficiency.