students
My Crypto Task Force with whom I share my passion for Crypto!
Also visit my research group at de.ci.phe.red LAB
Current Students
Ajay Kumar Das
PhD
Research: Investigating Automated Cryptanalysis of Symmetric-Key Primitives
Dilip Kumar Sau
PhD
Research: Design and Analysis of Symmetric Ciphers for Securing Data in Storage
Affiliation: IIT Kharagpur
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury
Anup Kumar Kundu
PhD
Research: Exploiting Classical Cryptanalysis Techniques with Fault Attacks
Affiliation: ISI Kolkata
Co-supervisor: Prof. Goutam Paul
Vipin Kumar
PhD
Research: Lattice in Symmetric and Asymmetric-key Cryptography (Tentative)
Manish Sahu
PhD
Visvesvaraya Scholar
Research: Quantum Resource Estimation for Lightweight Ciphers (Tentative)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Santosh Biswas
Bhavesh Kumar
PhD
DST Inspire Scholar
Research: Distinguishing Attacks on ARX/And-RX Ciphers (Tentative)
Riya Jana
PhD
Research: Cryptanalysis
Project Personnel
Dr. K Sowjanya
Post-Doc
Project: 5G Security and Standardization
Madhurima Das
Project Scientist
Project: 5G Security and Standardization
Vipin Kumar
Project Associate
Project: Searchable Encryption
Soumen Jana
Project Associate
Project: FinTeQ
Past Project Personnel
Mostafizar Rahmar
Post-Doc
Project: Secure Dongle
Now at: Post-Doc, University of Hyogo, Japan
Dr. Pabitra Pal
Post-Doc
Project: 5G Security
Now at: Assistant Prof., MAKAUT
Anindya Ganguly
Project Associate
Project: ECC Standardization
Now at: PhD, IIT Kanpur
Satanu Maity
Project Assistant
Project: Secure USB
Now at: PhD, IIIT Guwahati
Darunjeet Bag
Project Associate - I
Project: Secure Dongle
Aman Verma
Project Assistant
Project: Secure USB
Graduated Students
Sahiba Suryawanshi
PhD
TCS Research Scholar
Thesis: Cryptanalysis of Symmetric-Key Primitives
Ratnesh Srivastava
MTech
Thesis: The Decaying Symmetry: Investigating Partial Symmetry in Systems
Chayan Pathak
MTech
Thesis: Injecting Chaos: Fault Attack Setup and Analysis via ChipWhisperer
Prathamesh Ram
Dual Degree
Thesis: BRAVO: BoomeRang And Its Various Orientations
Vemuganti Sesha Satvik
BTech Hons.
Thesis: A Tale of Two Princes: Accelerating Weak Key Detection in X509 Certificates
Now at: PhD, UBC
Ananya
BTech Hons. 2024
Thesis: Advancing Autonomous Agents: Harnessing Large Language Models for Tool Manipulation, Knowledge Graph Building, and Jailbreaking
Co-supervisor: Dr. Subhajit Sidhanta
Now at: PhD, MIT
Ruchit Prakash
Dual Degree 2024
Thesis: Security Analysis of Instant Payment Systems
Co-supervisor: Dr. Souradyuti Paul
Phool Roshan Jha
MTech 2024
Thesis: Security Analysis of Secure Dongle
Co-supervisor: Prof. Santosh Biswas
Now at: PhD, IIT Bombay
Souvik Pan
MTech 2022
Thesis: Security Analysis of the Portable Document Format
Now at: Scientist-B, CDOT, Delhi
Anup Kumar Kundu
MTech
Thesis: Fault Analysis of the Prince Family of Lightweight Ciphers
Affiliation: ISI Kolkata
Co-supervisor: Prof. Goutam Paul (ISI Kolkata)
Now at: PhD, ISI Kolkata
Asim Manna
MTech
Thesis: Investigating Applications of The Target Difference Algorithm in Keccak & Ascon
Affiliation: ISI Kolkata
Co-supervisor: Prof. Goutam Paul (ISI Kolkata)
Now at: PhD, IIT Kharagpur
Dilip Kumar Sau
MTech
Thesis: Efficient Implementation of a class of 6x6 S-Boxes
Affiliation: ISI Kolkata
Co-supervisor: Prof. Goutam Paul (ISI Kolkata)
Now at: PhD, IIT Kharagpur
Tufan Singha Mahapatra
MTech
Thesis: Automated Cryptanalysis of Hash Functions
Affiliation: ISI Kolkata
Co-supervisor: Prof. Goutam Paul (ISI Kolkata)
Aikata
Btech Hons 2020
Thesis: Fault Based Cryptanalysis of Lightweight Block Ciphers
Now at: PhD, TU Graz
Satyam Sachan
BTech 2021
Thesis: Cryptanalysis of SHA3
Now at: MS, Purdue
Banashri Karmakar
MTech 2020
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Lightweight Cryptography
Now at: Phd, IISc Bangalore
Ahaan Dabholkar
BTech 2020
Thesis: Web Security
Now at: MS - PhD, Purdue
Harshvardhan Patel
BTech 2020
Thesis: System Security
Now at: Atonarp Micro-Systems
Bharath v. Gottumukkala
BTech 2020
Now at: Business Technology Analyst, Deloitte
Visitors
Dr. Sujoy Sinha Roy
Affiliation: Associate Professor, TU Graz
Shibam Ghosh
Affiliation: Doctoral Sudent, University of Haifa, Israel
Mostafizar Rahmar
Affiliation: Doctoral Student, ISI Kolkata
Avishek Majumdar
Affiliation: Faculty Member, UPES, Dehradun
Soumen Debnath
Affiliation: Philips Healthcare
Anubhab Bakshi
Affiliation: PhD, NTU Sigapore
Interns
Isha Goel
Anurupa Tirkey
Affiliation: MSc, Centre for Basic Sciences, PRSU, Raipur
Aastha Chauhan
Affiliation: BTech, IET Lucknow
Siddhartha
Affiliation: MAKAUT
Soumen
Affiliation: MAKAUT
Arup
Affiliation: Kalyani University
Biswarupa Murmu
Affiliation: MAKAUT