Mahavir Prasad Jhawar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ashoka University. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mathematics and Computer Science at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He was a post-doctoral fellow from June 2012 to August 2014 with Prof. Rei in the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests include Cryptography, Algorithmic Number Theory, Complexity Theory and Finite Fields. He holds a Masters Degree in Pure Mathematics. His current research focuses on results that connects fundamental questions in cryptography and complexity. In this direction, his current work include designing of cryptographic algorithms based on worst-case hard assumptions, information theoretic secure secret sharing schemes for access structure defined by NP languages.