Abhishek Jain is interested in all aspects of cryptography, with a present focus on all aspects of secure computation, including functional encryption and program obfuscation. Before joining Johns Hopkins, he was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and Boston University, and a consulting researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He obtained his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012, where he was the recipient of the Symantec outstanding graduate student award.