Research Experience

Apart from the research towards my PhD in Computer Science at ISI Kolkata, here are a few other research projects that I have worked on.

Graduate [ISI Kolkata]

• Worked on RSA Factorization, RSA Partial Key Exposure attacks, and RSA Side-Channel Attacks (cold-boot) at the Cryptology Research Group of ISI Kolkata in the capacity of a Project Linked Research Person during Dec 2009 - Aug 2010.

Graduate [Univ. of Washington]

• Worked on a course project: "Elliptic Curves from a Complex Perspective", with other graduate students Tom Boothby and Aly Deines, during a Complex Analysis [Math 536] course at University of Washington.

• Worked on a course project: "Combinatorics of Abelian Varieties", during a Computational Number Theory [Math 583e] course at University of Washington.

• Worked on a course project: "Special Purpose Factoring Devices", during a Computational Number Theory [Math 583e] course at University of Washington.

• Worked on a course project: "Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis of DES", with another graduate student Slava Chernyak, during a Cryptanalysis [CSE 599R] course at University of Washington. One can find the talk and the relevant codes (Java) at this link.

Graduate [Univ. of Waterloo]

• I have completed my Masters Thesis under the supervision of Prof Yu-Ru Liu and Prof Wentang Kuo. I worked within the Number Theory group of the Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
  
  Masters Thesis: "Artin's Conjecture: Unconditional Approach and Elliptic Analogue". [Masters Talk]
  

• Along with another graduate student Patrice Camire, I also worked a bit on the extension of the Composite Moduli version of Artin's conjecture to function fields during my Masters at University of Waterloo.
  
  

• Worked on a course project: "Lattice Attacks on Cryptosystems", for two courses, Computational Number Theory and Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography, at University of Waterloo.

Undergraduate [Jadavpur Univ.]

• My undergraduate research was to develop and implement a novel Topology Management Algorithm for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. I worked under the supervision of Prof Mrinal K Naskar, Jadavpur University.
  
  Undergraduate Dissertation: "Topology Management Algorithms for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks". [Seminar Talk]
  

• I worked under the supervision of Prof Amit Konar on Image Processing and Video Compression based on the H.264 Video Codec during my Undergraduate studies.
  

• I worked under Prof Anup K Bandyopadhyay on the Generation and Applications of a Minimum Steiner Tree during my Undergraduate studies at Jadavpur University.
  
  

 

Talks / Presentations

Apart from the invited talks and tutorials in Cryptology and related fields delivered during my Doctoral tenure, here are a few others.

Graduate [ISI Kolkata]

• "Sage as a Teaching Tool"
  National Workshop on Computer Algebra System, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Pune, 2011.

• "Artin's Primitive Root Conjecture"
  Jagadish Chandra Bose National Science Talent Search Visit, ISI Kolkata, 2009

Graduate [Univ. of Washington]

• "Elliptic Curves from a Complex Perspective"
  Course Project Talk [Complex Analysis - Math 536], University of Washington, USA, 2009.

• "Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis of DES"
  Course Project Talk [CSE 599R Cryptanalysis], University of Washington, USA, 2009.

• "Artin's Conjecture: Unconditional Approach and Elliptic Analogue"
  Number Theory and Computation Seminar, University of Washington, USA, 2008.

Graduate [Univ. of Waterloo]

• "Cryptography: From Caesar to Quantum"
  Number Theory Student Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008.

• "Artin's Conjecture: Unconditional Approach and Elliptic Analogue"
  Number Theory Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008.

• "Math-Art Exhibition: The Artistic bent of Mathematics"
  Course Presentation as Instructor [Math 135 Algebra], University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008.

• "Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
  Waterloo Symposium in Undergraduate Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2007.

• "Artin's Conjecture: Composite Moduli Analogue"
  Number Theory Student Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2007.

• "Artin's Conjecture: Elliptic Curve Analogue"
  Number Theory Student Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2007.

• "MatheMagics: Countering Laws of Mathematics"
  Short Attention Span Math Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2007.

Undergraduate [Jadavpur Univ.]

• "Topology Management of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks"
  Final Year Undergraduate Talk, Jadavpur University, India, 2006.
  
  

 

Conferences / Workshops

Apart from the Conferences/Workshops in Cryptology and related fields that I have attended during my Doctoral tenure (presented my paper(s) or delivered invited talks and tutorials), here are a few others that I have attended so far.

Graduate [Univ. of Washington]

• Arizona Winter School 2009 [Quadratic Forms] - University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

• Sage Days 13 [Quadratic Forms and Lattices] 2009 - University of Georgia, Athens, USA

• Sage Days 11 [Special Functions and Computational Number Theory] 2008 - University of Texas, Austin, USA

Graduate [Univ. of Waterloo]

• L-Functions and Modular Forms Workshop 2008 - University of Washington, Seattle, USA

• Canadian Number Theory Association X Meeting 2008 - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

• Waterloo Symposium in Undergraduate Mathematics 2007 - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Undergraduate [Jadavpur Univ.]

• 4th Asian International Mobile Computing Conference (AMOC) 2006 - Kolkata, India

• International Conference on Electronic and Photonic Materials, Devices and Systems (EPMDS) 2006 - Kolkata, India

• Intel India Student Research Contest (IISRC) 2006 - Bangalore, India