Professional Activities

Responsibilities

1. Convenor of Industry-Academia Meet (IAM) 2026 on 19-20 September at IIITV-ICD. 

2. Placement Coordinator, IIIT Vadodara-ICD, Autumn 2025.

3. Professor In-charge (PIC) of National Sport Organization (NSO), IIIT Vadodara-ICD, Autumn 2025.

4.  Professor In-charge (PIC) of Sport, IIIT Vadodara-ICD, Autumn 2025.

5.  Placement Core of the Placement Team IIT Madras, April 2017 - February 2018.

6.  Research Councillor of the Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, April 2017- February 2018.

Conferences/Workshops

1.  Attended the 23rd International Conference on Cryptology (Indocrypt) held at The Chatterjee Group - Centers for Research and Education in Science and Technology (TCG-CREST), Kolkata, India, December 11-14, 2022. 

2.  Attended the 20th International Conference on Cryptology (Indocrypt) held at Novotel Hyderabad Convention Center, Hyderabad,  India, December 15-18, 2019.

3. Visited Dr. Takanori Isobe, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan under the IJCSP  project, November 4-12, 2019.

4. Attended National Instructional Workshop on Cryptography (NWIC-2018) held at MNNIT, Allahabad, India, June 6-10, 2018.

5. Attended AIS/IST Gröbner Bases and their Applications Workshop (2017) held at IIIT Delhi, India, December 10-23, 2017.

6. Attended National Instructional Workshop on Cryptography (NWIC-2017) held at LNMIIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, October 6-8, 2018.

Talks

1. Delivered an invited talk on "The Importance of Cryptography in CyberWar", at Vijnana Parishad Prayag, Prayagraj

August 29, 2026. Slides

2. Delivered an invited talk on "Revolutionizing Mathematics under NEP 2020", Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sangam

(ABSS) July 28, 2026. Slides

3. Delivered an invited talk on "Lightweight MDS Diffusion Layers", at Workshop on Number Theory and Cryptography: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, NIT Raipur July 15, 2026. Slides

4. Delivered a talk on the topic "On the Construction of Efficient MDS Matrices", at the SIGTACS Group, Department of Computer Science Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2022, Slides

5. Delivered a talk on the topic "Exhaustive Search for Various Types of MDS Matrices", at the FSE Conference Virtually, 2020. Slides

6. Delivered a talk on the topic "Some Cryptanalytic Results on TRIAD", at the INDOCRYPT Conference, Hyderabad, 2019. Slides

7. Delivered a talk on the topic "Recursive MDS Matrices over Quotient Rings", at MathCrypt-2018, Santa Barbara, USA, 2018. Slides

8. Delivered a talk on the topic "Lightweight Recursive MDS Matrices", In House Symposium, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, 2018. Slides