About Rashmi Agrawal
Rashmi Agrawal co-founded CipherSonic Labs in January 2024. She is its chief technology officer and a director. The startup helps enterprises analyze encrypted data without exposing raw sensitive information. Agrawal leads work on cloud systems for that purpose. She is principal investigator for CipherSonic's $303,174 NSF Phase I award from 2025.
During her doctorate at Boston University, she researched how to process data while keeping it encrypted. Her doctoral work included hardware that sped fully homomorphic encryption, a method for computing directly on encrypted data. She earned an M.S. in computer engineering from Boston University in 2017 and a Ph.D. there. She was a 2023 EECS Rising Star and appeared on the 2025 100 Women in AI list.
Experience
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Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Rashmi Agrawal works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
