Somitra Kumar Sanadhya

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Somitra Kr Sanadhya

I am an Associate Professor in the Deptt of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Ropar.
(I will not be maintaining this site any longer. Please see my new webpage at IIT Ropar)
Earlier, I was an Associate professor at Ashoka university (Jan - May 2017) and an Assistant Professor at IIIT Delhi (Jan 2010 to May 2017)
I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor at CR Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad since Oct 2011. I am a founding member of Cryptology Research Group (CRG) at IIIT Delhi.
If you are interested in working with me then please see this note.

Education

Ph. D. (2009) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
M.Tech. (2002) Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
B. Tech. (1994) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Research Interests

Cryptology (Primary interest).
Machine learning, Bioinformatics (Secondary interest).

Organization and Service

PC co-chair Indocrypt 2016 (with Orr Dunkelman)
PC Member of: ACNS 2017, ICMC 2016, VLSI Design 2017, 2016, Indocrypt 2015, IEEE WCI 2015, SPACE 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013.
Subreviewer for: Eurocrypt 2015, FSE 2015, ACNS 2015, 2014; ACISP 2013.
Served as a reviewer for submissions to these journals:

Journal of Cryptology (JoC); Design, Codes and Cryptography (DCC); Cryptography and Communications (CCDS); IEEE Trans. on Comm.; IET Info. Sec.; IET Networks; Integration-the VLSI journal; IEICE Trans.; Jour. of Medical systems; Int. Jour. of Computer Maths.; Discrete Maths, algorithms and applications; Computer standards and interfaces; China communications; Arabian Jour. of Sci. and Engg.; Iranian Jour. of Comp and Elec. Engg; Jour. of Info. Sci and Engg;

Organizing Chair of 12th Annual IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, Jan 4-6, 2016.
Co-chair Asian Workshop on Symmetric Key Cryptography (ASK) 2014, SETS Chennai, December 19-22 2014.
Workshop on "Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Cryptographic Systems", IIIT Delhi, Feb 28- March 7, 2013.

Program Committee co-Chair, International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography Engineering (SPACE 2012), SETS Chennai, November 2012.
Workshop on "Multivariate Equation Solving Techniques", IIIT Delhi, March 12-16, 2012.

Program Committee co-Chair, the 11th National workshop on Cryptology (NCW 2011) held at NIIT University, Neemrana, September 2011

Past Affiliations
I have been a member of Cryptology Research Group at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata . I completed my PhD thesis on the cryptanalysis of SHA-2 hash functions with Prof. Palash Sarkar in this group.
I have worked at Connectiva Systems, an Indo-US firm selling telecom revenue assurance software.
I have also worked in the Govt. of Rajasthan in an administrative position and as a software developer in an MNC earlier.