Katerina Sotiraki is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science.She was a post-doctoral researcher at the EECS Department of UC Berkeley working with Alessandro Chiesa and Raluca Ada Popa. She received her PhD (2020) from the EECS Department at MIT where she was advised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan. Before that, she completed her undergraduate studies (2013) in the department of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens. She works on cryptography, complexity theory, and secure computation, with focus on cryptography based on lattices.