Speakers

Posted by Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, CSE IIT KGP on January 31, 2012  • 


Rajat Subhra Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. He received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) in 2010 and a B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2005. From 2005- 2006, he worked as a CAD Software Engineer at National Semiconductor in Bangalore, and in Fall 2007, he was a co-op at Advanced Micro Devices(AMD) in Sunnyvale, California. He has received multiple student awards from IEEE and ACM, and an annual award for academic excellence among graduate students from Case Western Reserve University in 2009. Part of his PhD research work has been the subject of a U.S. patent filed by Case Western Reserve University in 2010. His research interest includes hardware security, including design methodology for hardware IP/IC protection, hardware Trojan detection/prevention through design and testing, attacks on hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms and digital watermarking.


Abhijit Das is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has held academic positions at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His research interests include arithmetic and algebraic computations with specific applications to cryptology.


Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury is a Professor in the Department of Computer Scienece and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She received her B.Tech and M.Tech. degrees in Computer Science from University of Kolkata in 1987 and 1989 respectively, and the PhD degree from the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1994. Her current research interests are in the field of Cryptography, Error Correcting Code, Cellular automata and VLSI Design and Testing. She has published more than 125 technical papers in International Journals and Conferences. Dr. Roy Chowdhury has supervised 8 PhD and 6 MS thesis and she is the Pricipal Investigator of several R&D projects. She is the recipient of INSA Young Scientist Award and Associate of Indian Academy of Science. She is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).


Benedikt Gierlichs is a postdoctoral researcher in embedded security at the COSIC Lab of KU-Leuven. He has carried out internships at the ECIT Institute of Queen's University Belfast and Security Technologies Department of Gemplus (Paris). His research topics focus on the (physical) security of embedded devices and include: side-Channel analysis, fault analysis, countermeasures against active and passive attacks on protocol, algorithm, circuit, and gate level secure system-on-chip design.


Ramesh Karri is a professor in the ECE Department at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. His research interests include trusted hardware design, side-channel attacks and side-channel-resistant architectures, the interaction between security and reliability, and nanoscale architectures. Karri received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He is a program chair of 2012 IEEE Symposium on Hardware oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2012) and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing.


Roel Maes received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Belgium, in 2007. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree at the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT) of the K.U.Leuven. His research interests include physically unclonable functions (PUFs) and hardware design security. He is a student member of the IEEE.


Debdeep Mukhopadhyay received his BTech degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2001 and MS degree from Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2004. He was awarded PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2007. Subsequently he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. Presently he is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, His research interests include Cryptography, VLSI of Cryptographic Algorithms and Side Channel Analysis. He is the recipient of the Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) TechnoInventor award for best PhD thesis (2010), Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist Award (2010), Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineer Award (2010), and Associate of Indian Academy of Science (2011). He is a life time member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) and of ACM SIGDA.


Chester Rebeiro received the Master's degree in Computer Science and Enginnering in 2009 from IIT Madras. He is currently a PhD scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. From 1999 to 2009, he was a member technical staff in C-DAC, Bangalore. His research interests include side-channel attacks and high performance implementations of cryptographic and cryptanalytic algorithms.


Sk Subidh Ali, is a Phd Scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His area of research is side-channel cryptanalysis and hardware design security. He has received his Master of Engineering degree in Information Technology from West Bengal Technical University in 2007 and Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2003 from Burdwan University. He has served as a lecturer for Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering.


Michael Tunstall is currently a researcher in the Department of Computer Science in the University of Bristol. Previously, he was employed as a researcher at the Coding and Cryptography Group in University College Cork. Before this he was a student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he worked on his PhD. thesis on side channel and fault attacks on embedded devices (supervised by Chris Mitchell). His research interests are: Smart Card Security, Secure Embedded Software Design, Fault-based Differential Cryptanalysis, Fault Attacks, Side Channel Analysis, Bitslice Cryptographic Algorithm Implementations.


Ingrid Verbauwhede received the electrical engineering degree and PhD degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Belgium, in 1991. From 1992 to 1994, she was a postdoctoral researcher and visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1994 to 1998, she worked for TCSI and ATMEL in Berkeley, California. In 1998, she joined the faculty of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is currently a professor at the K.U.Leuven and an adjunct professor at UCLA. At K.U.Leuven, she is a codirector of the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) Laboratory. Her research interests include circuits, processor architectures and design methodologies for real-time embedded systems for security, cryptography, digital signal processing, and wireless communications. This includes the influence of new technologies and new circuit solutions on the design of next-generation systems on chip. She was the program chair of the Ninth International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 07), the 19th IEEE International Conference on Applicationspecific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 08), and the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED02). She was also the general chair of ISLPED 2003. She was a member of the executive committee of the 42nd and 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) as the design community chair. She is a senior member of the IEEE.