The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Mahimna Kelkar

Mahimna Kelkar

Title

Assistant Professor 

Department

Email

mkelkar@purdue.edu 

URL

https://mahimnakelkar.github.io/ 

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Education

PhD, Computer Science, Cornell University (2025)
BS, Computer Science, Purdue University (2018) 

Publications

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Biography

Dr. Kelkar's research focuses on building secure protocols in decentralized and permissionless environments using techniques from applied cryptography, distributed systems, and game theory. He is also a senior research scientist at Offchain Labs.