Biography

Sartaj Ul Hasan was born in a remote village in the district of Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh, in the northern part of India. He is working as an associate professor at IIT Jammu. Prior to joining IIT Jammu, he was a scientist at DRDO, Delhi, from February 2007 to January 2018. From September 2011 until December 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he collaborated with Professor Daniel Panario and Professor Steven Wang. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he was a student of Professor Sudhir R. Ghorpade. He is interested in all aspects of finite fields and their applications in cryptography, coding theory, combinatorics, number theory, and discrete mathematics.

Upcoming Events

• The 8th International Coding Theory Seminar (ICTS 2025), a virtual conference, India, September 26, 2025.

• Indocrypt 2025, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, December 14-17, 2025.

• Indo-Europian Conference on Mathematics, Pune, India, January 12-16, 2026

• International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI 2026), Santander, Spain, June 3-5, 2026.

• 14th International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2026), Paris, France, June 8-12, 2026.

• International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2026), Philadelphia, USA, July 23-30, 2026.

Open Ph.D. Position

I am seeking motivated students for a Ph.D. position in the area of finite fields and their applications. Candidates with a strong background in algebra or number theory, and a strong interest in research, are encouraged to apply. Interested applicants are advised to contact me well in advance of the interviews scheduled by IIT Jammu. The selected candidate may also have the opportunity to be co-supervised by a faculty member from Norway and, as part of this collaboration, undertake a short-term research visit to Norway during the course of the Ph.D. program.