Research

• Model Building Attacks on PUFs(Physically Uncloneable Functions)
• Hardware Trojans
• Supervisor: Dr.Rajat Subhra Chakraborty
• Joint-Supervisor: Dr.Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Publications

• Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Indrasish Saha, Ayan Palchaudhuri and Gowtham Kumar Naik, "Hardware Trojan Insertion by Direct Modification of FPGA Configuration Bitstream", accepted for publication in IEEE Design and Test of Computers
• Indrasish Saha, Ratan Rahul Jeldi and Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, "Model Building attacks on Physically Unclonable Functions using Genetic Programming ", accepted for publication in IEEE International Symposium on Security and Trust (HOST) 2013, Austin, TX, USA

Education

• B.E. in Information Technology, Jadavpur University, West Bengal (2007-11)
  • CGPA : 8.83

• Schooling from Don Bosco Park Circus, West Bengal (1994-2007)
  • ISC : 87%
  • ICSE : 93%

Achievements

• AIR 730 in Gate 2011,Gate Score-718
• AIR 26 in Jest 2011
• WBJEE rank 609, AIEEE rank AIR 562, VIT-Entrance rank 2182, Among Top 5% of the BITS-PILANI entrance merit list. All in the year 2007
• Won certificates for being in the merit list at school

Activities

• Teaching Assistant for Computational Geometry, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Algorithms-II and Algorithms-I

Projects

• Model building attacks on Physically Uncloneable Functions(PUFs) under Dr.Rajat Subhra Chakraborty(IIT Kharagpur)
• Study of Hardware Malware Vulnerabilities and Mitigation techniques for FPGAs under Dr.Rajat Subhra Chakraborty(IIT Kharagpur)
• Model Building attacks on Physically Uncloneable Functions(PUFs) using machine learning techniques Under Dr.Pabitra Mitra (IIT Kharagpur)
• Worked on a Project in Computational Geometry, titled “Algorithm to maximise the voronoi region under the guidance ofDr. Sandip Das (Assistant Professor, ACMU-ISI Kolkata) Co-guide is Dr.Samiran Chottopadhay(Professor,Jadavpur University)
• Designing Micro-Architecture & Assembly Code Generation for a C-compliant high level language, say C--,with only linear arithmetic expressions, and branching,under Dr.Ansuman Banerjee. (Asst. Professor ISI Kolkata.)
• Worked on a project on “Data Dependancy” under ‘IBM Remote Mentoring Program’ Organized by ‘IBM India University Relations’. Co-guide Dr.Uttam Kumar Roy(Senior Lecturer,Jadavpur University)
• “Mathematical modelling of the accuracy of a Fuzzy expert system”, under Tullika Bhattacharya (Lecturer Jadavpur University)

Work Experience

• Study of Hardware Malware Vulnerabilities and Mitigation techniques for FPGAs at Centre Of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics(CAIR DRDO, Bangalore)

Extra-Curricular

• Won certificates in inter school chess and caroms tournament
• Won First prize in the Intra School Talent Contest in the eastern category, playing sitar
• Member of the core committee of ILLUMINE’08,10,12 (Departmental Reunion of I.T.) and also part of the organizing team of Srijan and Sanskriti (Annual Tech and Cultural Fest of Jadavpur University respectively)