He received his BTech degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2004. He attended Cornell University, where he worked with Rafael Pass receiving his Ph.D. in computer science in 2011. Before arriving at the University of Rochester, he spent a year at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) as a postdoctoral researcher supported by the Computing Innovation Fellowship. Muthu's interests are in the theory and practice of Cryptography and Network Security. He is a recipient of the Google Faculty Research award and his work on "L-Diversity: Privacy beyond K-Anonymity" received the ICDE 2017 Influential Paper Award.