Publications:  *Authors' names are in alphabetical order 

Journal

1. Fault-Tolerant Distributed Trigger Counting

Manish Kumar, Manish Kumar

    Journal of Information Processing Letters (IPL), 2026.

2. Faster Leader Election via Mobile Agents and Its Applications

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Debasish Pattanayak, Gokarna Sharma

    Theoretical Computer Science (TCS-D), 2026.

3. Fault-Tolerant Dispersion of Mobile Robots

Prabhat Kumar Chand, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

Discrete Applied Mathematics (DAM), 2025.

4. Sublinear Message Bounds of Authenticated Implicit Byzantine Agreement

Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

Theoretical Computer Science (TCS-A), 2024.

5. On the Message Complexity of Fault-Tolerant Computation: Leader Election and Agreement

Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2023.

Conference

1. Distributed Download from an External Data Source in Asynchronous Faulty Settings

    John Augustine, Soumyottam Chatterjee, Valerie King, Manish Kumar, Shachar Meir, David Peleg

    29th Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). (Accepted)

2. Distributed Download from an External Data Source in Byzantine Majority Settings

    John Augustine, Soumyottam Chatterjee, Valerie King, Manish Kumar, Shachar Meir, David Peleg

    39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025).

    Highlighted at DISC'25

3. Distributed Download from an External Data Source in Asynchronous Faulty Settings

    John Augustine, Soumyottam Chatterjee, Valerie King, Manish Kumar, Shachar Meir, David Peleg

    39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC-BA 2025).

4. Optimal Dispersion Under Asynchrony

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Debasish Pattanayak, Gokarna Sharma

    39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC-BA 2025).

5. Computing Tree Structures in Anonymous Graphs via Mobile Agents

Prabhat Kumar Chand, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

     27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2025). (Accepted)

6. Dispersion is (Almost) Optimal under (A)synchrony

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Debasish Pattanayak, Gokarna Sharma

37th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2025)

7. Distributed Download from an External Data Source in Byzantine Majority Settings

John Augustine, Soumyottam Chatterjee, Valerie King, Manish Kumar, Shachar Meir, David Peleg

44th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC-BA 2025)

8. Near-Linear Time Leader Election in Multiagent Networks

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Gokarna Sharma

24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025)

9. Faster Leader Election and Its Applications for Mobile Agents with Parameter Advice

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Gokarna Sharma

21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology (ICDCIT 2025)

10. Optimal Fault-Tolerant Dispersion on Oriented Grids

Rik Banerjee, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2025)

11. Optimizing Robot Dispersion on Unoriented Grids: with and without Fault Tolerance

Rik Banerjee, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

20th International Symposium on Algorithmics of Wireless Networks (ALGOWIN 2024)

12. Agent-based Leader Election, MST, and Beyond

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Gokarna Sharma

38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC-BA 2024)

13. Agent-Driven BFS Tree in Anonymous Graphs with Applications

Prabhat Kumar Chand, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

12th International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS 2024)

14. Sublinear Message Bounds of Authenticated Implicit Byzantine Agreement

Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2024)

15. Fault-tolerant Graph Realizations in the Congested Clique, Revisited

Manish Kumar

19th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology (ICDCIT 2023)

16. Improved Deterministic Leader Election in Diameter-Two Networks

Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

13th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2023)

17. Fault-Tolerant Dispersion of Mobile Robots

Prabhat Kumar Chand, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

9th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM 2023)

18. Fault-Tolerant Graph Realizations in the Congested Clique

Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

18th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSORS 2022)

19. On the Message Complexity of Fault-Tolerant Computation: Leader Election and Agreement

Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla

40th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC-BA 2021)

Some other Manuscript(s)

• Message Efficient Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computations. Ph.D. Thesis 2023. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

• Security of XCB and HCTR. M.Tech Thesis 2018. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.