The CrySP Group is a part of the Deparment of Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science.
Bhavana has worked on a range of problems in Cryptography and Security. Some recent examples include building secure and efficient auditing mechanisms for data stored on a remote cloud, making systems resilient to side-channel attacks and using untrusted servers to reliably run one's computation. She received her PhD from Boston University in 2011 and has worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at UCLA. She recieved an INSPIRE Award for young faculty from the Department of Science and Technology and a Research Excellence Award from the Department of Computer Science at Boston University.
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Girisha Shankar is pursuing his research under the guidance of Dr. Chaya Ganesh and Dr. Bhavana Kanukurthi. His areas of interest are on the broad theme of cryptography as applied to rational security settings such as auctions which find several practical applications.
Shreyas Gupta joined as a PhD student in july 2019. He pursued his master degree in computer science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata before joining as a PhD student. His areas of interest are logical modeling of cryptographic system, quantum cryptograhy.
Anirban chakrabarti joined as a PhD student in july 2019. He worked as a software developer in insurance domain before joining as a PhD student. His areas of interest are compression and consolidation of data in storage system, finding similarity in encrypted data.
Current affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
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Current affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Lab – India
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Rohit Chatterjee is an Integrated UG and Master's in mathematics. His current research interests lie in information theoretic secure computation and he pursues it with Pr.Bhavana Kanukurthi and Pr.Himanshu Tyagi. Rohit's other interests include books and football. Rohit realizes that he likes to talk in third person.
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Current affiliation:Advanced Cryptography Research Group at MongoDB
Cressida Hamlet was an M.E. student at CrySP from 2014 - 2016. Her M.E. thesis focused on Blind Signatures. She is currently working at Nvidia. Prior to joining IISc, she completed her Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology in Calicut.
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Nithin was an M.E. student at CrySP from 2014 - 2016. His M.E. thesis focused on Secure Deduplication. He is currently working at Adobe. Prior to IISc, he received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut. Nithin aspires to improve his introduction and make it more interesting.
Email: avguva.angu@pfn.vvfp.rearg.va
Ananth is a Research Assistant working under Dr. Bhavana. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Goa in 2016. His interests include Secure Deduplication and Algorithms. In his free time he likes Competitive Programming, Frisbee and Football. He was part of Indian National Frisbee team, 2016.
Email: nanagu360@tznvy.pbz
Mukul R. Kulkarni is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park studying under the guidance of Dr. Dana Dachman-Soled. He received his MTech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 2014, after graduating as BE from University of Pune. He served as SAP-BASIS consultant for Accenture between 2009 to 2011, during which he was awarded several professional accolades. His research interests involve Tamper Resilient Cryptography and Lattice based Cryptography. Mukul was also an integral member of the Scilab team for FOSSEE project at IIT Bombay, which aims to improve the quality of instruction and learning in India. In addition to his research, he has actively participated in variety of cultural activities as leading team member. He enjoys playing soccer and writing. Mukul has also completed a diploma in German language. He is inspired by prospects in educational research related to free and open-source software, as well as MOOCs.
Mukul is a summer intern at CrySP and will be working with Dr. Bhavana Kanukurthi from June 2017 till August 2017.
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Abhishek Kumar is a UG student majoring in CSE at IIT Kanpur. He is currectly doing his intershship at IISc under Dr.Bhavana during summer 2017. He is currently exploring Multi-party computation, Oblivious Transfer and Private Set Intersection. He is also interested in Game Theory and likes coding. He loves reading books and watching Cricket.
Email: gurnouvfurx763@tznvy.pbz
Srinivasan Raghuraman was an intern at CrySP during the Summmer of 2015. During his internship, he worked on Non-malleable Codes. (Srini received his bachelor's degree from IIT Madras and is pursuing his PhD in Cryptography at MIT.)
| Sl.No | Topic | Speaker | Reading material |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Quantum Computation(May 13th) | Sruthi Sekar | Link | |
| Qubits, Quantum Gates and Measurement(May 30th) | OSL Bhavana | Lectures 2 and 3 of Ref 2 | |
| No Cloning theorem, Quantum teleportation, Deutsch-Josza Algorithm(June 7th) | Sruthi Sekar | Sections 1.4.3,1.4.4, 1.3.7, 1.3.5 of Ref 1 |
