About Me

1. Locking Secrets: End-to-End Encryption and the Importance of Commitment at University of Hyogo on 15/11/2024 (JENSYS program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan).

2. Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes at IIT Bhilai on 29/09/2024.

3. Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes in Fast Software Encryption 2024, Leuven, Belgium.

4. Quantum Cryptography in Chandigarh University on 20/10/2023

5. Capturing the Dependency between Correlated AND gates using MILP at Universität Mannheim on 01/08/2023.

6. Boomeyong: Embedding Yoyo within Boomerang and its Applications to Key Recovery Attacks on AES and Pholkos in Fast Software Encryption 2022, Athens, Greece (short talk, full talk).

7. Quantum Attacks on Symmetric-key Schemes at Faculty Development Program on "Cryptography and Blockchain", Chandigarh University on 16/11/2022.

8. Quantum Security of Classical Cryptosystems in Summer School on Quantum Information and Quantum Technology-2021, IISER Kolkata.

9.  New Yoyo Tricks with AES-based Permutations @FSE 2019, Paris. The talk can be found here.

• University of Hyogo, Kobe
  Post-doctoral Researcher
  February, 2023- Present

• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
  Project Associate/ Visiting Scientist
  March, 2022 - January, 2023

• Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
  Senior Project Associate
  February, 2022- March, 2022

• Qulabs Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.
  Honorary Research Fellow
  October 2020- September, 2021

• Phonato Studios Pvt. Ltd.
  Software Engineer (Android Application Developer)
  05/08/2013  - 13/08/2014

I served as an external reviewer in the following conferences and journals: IACR ToSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IET Information Security, SAC 2024, SAC 2023, Indocrypt 2023, etc.

• Instructor
  (i) Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)- 12 Lectures on Cryptography at Indian Statistcial Institute Kolkata, August 2021- December 2021.
  (ii) Weapons and Electronics Systems Engineering Establishment, Ministry of Defence, Government of India - 5 Lectures on Computing     Systems Security, November 2022.

• Teacher
  (i) Computing Systems Security II, M. Tech (Crypto) 2nd Year, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, July, 2019 - November, 2019 (jointly with Prof. Goutam Paul).
  (ii) Computing Systems Security II, M. Tech (Crypto) 2nd Year, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, September, 2021 - January, 2022 (jointly with Prof. Goutam Paul).
  (iii) Computing Systems Security II, M. Tech (Crypto) 2nd Year, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, August, 2022 - December, 2022.

• Teaching Assistant
  (i) Programming Lab, B. Tech 1st Year, Aligarh Muslim University, Aug, 2014 - November, 2015.
  (ii) Microprocessor Lab, B. Tech 3rd Year, Aligarh Muslim University, January, 2016 - May, 2016.
  (iii) Programming and Data Structure Lab, M. Tech (CS) 1st Year, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, July, 2017 - November, 2017.
  (iv) Data Structure and Programming, M. Tech (CS) 1st Year, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, October, 2020 - February, 2021.

• Senior Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute
  19/07/2018 - 25/01/2022

• Junior Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute
  19/07/2016  - 18/07/2018

• M. Tech (Computer Sc. & Engg.), Aligarh Muslim University
  Aug, 2014  - May, 2016

• B. Tech (Computer Engg.), Aligarh Muslim University
  June, 2009 - May, 2013