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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

FACULTY ACADEMIC PROFILE / CV

1. Full name of the faculty member :Dr Avishek Adhikari
2. Designation :Assistant Professor
3. Specialization:Applications of Algebra, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis of Stream Ciphers
and Block Ciphers, Secret Sharing, DNA Cryptography, Visual Cryptography,
Algebraic Graph Theory.
4. Passport size photograph :

Brief Introduction: Dr. AVISHEK ADHIKARI, M.Sc. (Gold Medalist), recipient of

the President of India Medal, ISCA Young Scientist Award and NANUM fund by
IMU, PhD from Indian Statistical Institute under the supervision of Professor Bimal
Roy, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics, University of
Calcutta. He is the founder secretary of IMBIC, India, Treasurer of Cryptology
Research Society of India and was the Former Eastern Zonal Coordinator for
NBHM MSc and PhD Scholarship Examination. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at
INRIA-Rocquencourt, France, a visiting scientist at Linkoping University, Sweden
and a visiting scientist at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He visited Japan (7
times), Sweden (3 times), France (2 times), England (3 times), Switzerland (2
times), South Korea, Russia, Malaysia (2 times), Thailand, Denmark, Norway,
Netherland, Belgium, Italy, Bangladesh, Singapore. He has published four basic
textbooks on mathematics including Basic Modern Algebra with Applications
(Springer, 2014) and edited two research monographs including Springer Monograph
(2017) on Mathematical and Statistical Applications in Life Sciences and
Engineering. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed international journals,
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conference proceedings and contributed volumes. He is on the editorial board of several

journals. He is one of the investigators of eight Sponsored Research Projects funded by
the agencies like DRDO, WESEE (Ministry of Defense), DST, DIT, NBHM including
two International Collaborative Projects supported by DST-JSPS (Indo-Japan Project)
and DST-JST (Indo-Japan) in collaboration with Indian Statistical Institute. Five
of his PhD students have already obtained PhD Degree. Currently, four of the PhD
scholars are doing their research works under his supervision.

5. Contact information :
Residential Address: AH 317, Salt Lake, Sector 2, Kolkata 700091, West Bengal, India
e-mail id: [email protected]
website: http://www.isical.ac.in/~avishek_r/
Residential Ph No.: 0091-33-23598617

6. Academic qualifications
College/University from which the degree Abbreviation of the degree
was obtained

St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata B.Sc. in Mathematics Hons. (Stood 2nd in

University of Calcutta) [1999]

Department of Pure Mathematics, M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, Gold

Calcutta University Medalist
(Stood 1st) [2001]

Indian Statistical Institute Ph.D. [2004] under the Supervision of

Professor Bimal Roy, Former Director,
Indian Statistical Institute.

7. Positions held/holding :
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta,
2006-till date
2. Visiting Scientist, Linkoping University, Sweden, April 2006-June 2006.
3. Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, December 2005-March 2006.
4. Post Doctoral Fellow, INRIA, France, December 2004-December 2005.
5. Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, 2001-2004.

8. Research interests :
● Algebraic Graph Theory,
● Applications of Algebra,
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● Cryptography,
● Cryptanalysis of Stream and Block Ciphers,
● Secret Sharing,
● DNA Cryptography,
● Visual Cryptography.

9. Research guidance :
I. Number of scholars awarded Ph.D. degrees under my supervision: 5
A. Dr Angsuman Das, On Some Mathematical Aspects of Security Notions and
Constructions of Public Key Cryptosystems and Secret Sharing Schemes,
Degree Awarded in 2014.
B. Dr Partha Sarathi Roy, On Some Aspects of Secret Sharing Schemes and
Oblivious Transfer Protocols Using Mathematical Tools, Degree Awarded in
2015.
C. Dr Sabyasachi Dutta, Algebraic And Combinatorial Aspects Of Visual
Cryptography, Degree Awarded in 2016.
D. Dr Ushnish Sarkar, On Some Combinatorial Studies of Radio $k$-coloring
Problems of Graphs and Related Issues, Degree Awarded in 2017.
E. Dr Prakash Dey, Algebraic Aspects Of Cryptanalysis On Secret-Key
Cryptosystems, Awarded in 2017.
II. Number of scholars Submitted Ph.D. Thesis : 0
A.
III. Number of researchers pursuing Ph.D under my supervision: 4
IV. Number of researchers Submitted M.Phil. : 1
A. Kabita Das, Review of some Black and White Visual Cryptographic Schemes for
Threshold as well as for General Access Structures.

10. Projects :
● Completed projects :
a. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled "Analysis of Cryptographic
Algorithms and Evaluation on Enhancing Network Security Based on Mathematical
Science", of amount Rs. 23.00 lakhs , December 2008- December 2011, under
Strategic Japanese-Indian Cooperative Program supported by JST-DST
project.
.
b. Principal Investigator of the Research Project of Ministry of Communication and
Information Technology, Govt. of India, entitled "Secret Sharing Schemes using
DNA Cryptography", of amount Rs. 22.94 lakhs at Department of Pure
Mathematics, April 2007- March 2009.
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c. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of

Pseudo Random Number Generators for use in Key Generation Systems, of amount
Rs. 7.60 lakhs for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE,
Govt of India in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF
INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.

d. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of

Strong Boolean functions with Cryptographic properties, of amount Rs. 6.30 lakhs
for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt of India in
collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI),
Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.

e. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of

Resilient Key Management for Secure Symmetric Implementation, of amount Rs.
8.75 lakhs, for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt
of India in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA
(CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.

f. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled For Design and Development
of Test Suite for Statistical Analysis of Cipher and Random Number Generators, of
amount Rs. 9.50 lakhs, for 180 days from October, 2009, funded by MINISTRY
OF DEFENCE, Govt of India, in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH
SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,
g. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled “Computational Aspects of
Mathematical Design and Analysis of Secure Communication Systems Based on
Cryptographic Primitives”, of amount Rs. 6.16 lakhs, 2014-2016, India-Japan
Science Council supported by DST-JSPS Science and Technology Program in
collaboration with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Kyushu University,
Japan.

● Current projects :
a. Principal-investigator of the Research Project entitled Constructions and Analysis
of Some Secret Sharing Schemes and Their Applications Using Mathematical and
Statistical Tools, of amount Rs. 13, 09, 900/- (= Rs 11,51,500/- + Rs 1,58,400/-
HRA), for 3 years from January, 2014, funded by National Board of Higher
Mathematics (NBHM), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
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11. Select list of publications :

a) Journals :
1. (With Prakash Dey and Raghvendra Singh Rohit), Single Key MITM Attack and
Biclique Cryptanalysis of Full Round Khudra, Journal of Information Security
and Applications, Elsevier Journal, Vol 41, pp. 117-123, August 2018.
2. (With Ushnish Sarkar), On relationship between Hamiltonian path and holes in
L(3,2,1)-coloring of minimum span, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Elsevier
Journal, Volume 222 Issue C, May 2017, pp. 227-234.
3. (with Sabyasachi Dutta and Raghvendra Singh Rohit), Constructions and Analysis
of Some Efficient $t$-$(k,n)^*$-Visual Cryptographic Schemes Using Linear
Algebraic Techniques, Design, Codes and Cryptography, Springer Journal,
80(1): 165-196 (2016),DOI 10.1007/s10623-015-0075-5.
4. (with Santanu Sarkar, Prakash Dey and Subhamoy Maitra), Probabilistic signature
based generalized framework for differential fault analysis of stream ciphers,
Cryptography and Communications, Springer Journal, July 2017, Volume 9,
Issue 4, pp 523-543.
5. (with Prakash Dey and Raghvendra Singh Rohit), Full key recovery of ACORN
with a single fault, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier
Journal, Volume 29, August 2016, Pages 57-64.
6. (With Ushnish Sarkar), A new graph parameter and a construction of larger graph
without increasing radio $k$-chromatic number, Journal of Combinatorial
Optimization, Springer Journal, Volume 33 Issue 4, May 2017, pp 1365-1377.
7. (with Rita SahaRay), Structural form of a minimal critical set for a latin square
representing the elementary abelian 2-group of order 8, Ars Combinatoria, 120,
181-191, 2015.
8. (With Ushnish Sarkar), On characterizing radio k-coloring problem by path
covering problem, Discrete Mathematics, Elsevier Journal, 338 (2015), pp. 615-
620, DOI information: 10.1016/j.disc.2014.11.014.
9. (with Angsuman Das and Kouichi Sakurai), Plaintext Checkable Encryption with
Designated Checker, Journal of Advances in Mathematics of Communications,
Volume 9, No. 1, 2015, 37-53, doi:10.3934/amc.2015.9.37.
10. (single author), Linear algebraic techniques to construct monochrome visual
cryptographic schemes for general access structure and its applications to color
images, Design, Codes and Cryptography, Springer Journal, December 2014,
Volume 73, Issue 3, pp 865-895, DOI 10.1007/s10623-013-9832-5.
11. (with Partha Sarathi Roy), One-Sided Leakage-Resilient Privacy Only Two-
Message Oblivious Transfer, Journal of Information Security and Applications,
Elsevier Journal, Volume 19, Issues 4-5, November 2014, Pages 295-300.
12. (with Mrinal Nandi and Subrata Parui), Bounds on the Size of the Minimum
Dominating Sets of Some Cylindrical Grid Graphs, International Journal of
Combinatorics, Volume 2014, Article ID 348359, 13 pages,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/348359.
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13. (with Angsuman Das), A note on “On ciphertext undetectability", Tatra Mountains
Mathematical Publications. Vol. 57, no. 4 (2013), p. 119-121.
14. (with Dong Hao, Xiaojuan Liao, Kouichi Sakurai and Makoto Yokoo), A repeated
game approach for analyzing the collusion on selective forwarding in multi hop
wireless networks, Computer Communications, Elsevier Journal, Volume 35,
Issue 17, 1 October 2012, Pages 2125-2137.
15. (with Angsuman Das), An efficient IND-CCA2 secure Paillier-based cryptosystem,
Information Processing Letters, Elsevier Journal, Volume 112, Issue 22, 30
November 2012, Pages 885-888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2012.08.007.
16. (with Liang Zhao, Di Xiao and Kouichi Sakurai), On the security analysis of an
image scrambling encryption of pixel bit and its improved scheme based on self-
correlation encryption , Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical
Simulation, Elsevier Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.12.015.
Volume 17, Issue 8, August 2012, Pages 3303-3327.
17. (with Mrinal Nandi and Subrata Parui), Domination Number of Cylindrical Grids,
Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier Journal, Volume 217, Issue
10, 15 January 2011, Pages 4879-4889.
18. (with ParthaSarathi Roy), Multi-Use Multi-Secret Sharing Scheme for General
Access Structure, Annals of the University of Craiova, Mathematics and Computer
Science Series Volume 37(4), 2010, Pages 50-57, ISSN: 1223-6934.
19. (with Angsuman Das), An efficient multi-use multi-secret sharing scheme based on
hash function, Applied Mathematics Letters, Elsevier Journal, Volume 23, Issue
9, September 2010, Pages 993-996.
20. (with Chitradeep Dutta Roy, Neel Choudhury, Amrik Chatterjee (during their
summer training in 2009)), Verifiable Secret Sharing Scheme on Images using
Watermarking , International Journal of Computer Science and Network
Security, VOL.10 No.2, page 76-81, February 2010.
21. (with M Bose and Bimal Roy), Applications of Partially Balanced and Balanced
Incomplete Block Designs in developing Visual Cryptographic Schemes, IEICE
TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, Japan, Vol. E-90A, No. 5, pp. 949-951, May 2007.
22. (Single Author), An overview of black and white Visual Cryptography using
mathematics, J. Calcutta Math. Soc. 2 (2006), no. 2, 21-52.
23. (with M R Adhikar and Shibopriya Mitra), A generalization of Milnors result, J.
Calcutta Math. Soc. 2 (2006), no. 1, 55-58.
24. (with R SahaRay and Jennifer Seberry), Critical Sets in Orthogonal Arrays with 7
and 9 Levels, The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 33, 2005, pp.
109-123.
25. (with R SahaRay and Jennifer Seberry), Critical Sets for a Pair of Mutually
Orthogonal Cyclic Latin Squares of Odd Order Greater than 9, The Journal of
Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Vol. 55, 2005, pp.
171-185.
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26. (with P K Rana), A Study of Functors Associated With Topological Groups, Studia
Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Mathematica, Vol XLVI (4), 3-14, 2001.
27. (with M Bose), A New Visual cryptographic Scheme Using Latin Squares, IEICE
TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, Japan, VOL E87-A, NO.5, MAY 2004, pp. 1198-
1202.

b) Books:

1.
(jointly with M R Adhikari), Basic Modern Algebra with Applications,
published by Springer. For more details, please visit the website for more details:
http://www.springer.com/in/book/9788132215981

2.
Edited Book, (jointly with M R Adhikari and Y. P. Chaubey), Mathematical and
Statistical Applications in Life Sciences and Engineering, Springer in 2017, For
more details, please visit the website:
http://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811053696
ISBN 978-981-10-5370-2.

3.
Edited Book: (jointly with M R Adhikari and Y P Chaubey), Contemporary Topics
in Mathematics and Statistics with Applications, Asian Books Private Limited,
2012.
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4.
(jointly with M R Adhikari), Introduction to Linear Algebra with Application to
Basic Cryptography, Asian Books Private Limited, 2007.

5.
(jointly with M R Adhikari), Text Book of Linear Algebra : An Introduction to
Modern Algebra, Allied Publishers, 2004.

6.
(jointly with M R Adhikari), Groups, Rings and Modules with Applications,
Universities Press, 2003.

c) Conference/seminar volumes :
1. (With Partha Sarathi Roy, Sabyasachi Dutta, Kirill Morozov, Kazuhide
Fukushima, Shinsaku Kiyomoto and Kouichi Sakurai), Hierarchical Secret
Sharing Schemes Secure against Rushing Adversary: Cheater Identification
and Robustness, to appear in Springer LNCS of the 14th International
Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2018)
will be held in Tokyo, Japan, during September 25-27, 2018.
2. (with Sabyasachi Dutta), Contrast Optimal XOR Based Visual Cryptographic
Schemes, Information Theoretic Security - 10th International Conference,
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ICITS 2017, Hong Kong, China, November 29 - December 2, 2017,

Springer LNCS, 10681, 2017, pp. 58-72.
3. (with Sabyasachi Dutta, Partha Sarathi Roy and Kouichi Sakurai), On the
Robustness of Visual Cryptographic Schemes, 15th International Workshop,
IWDW 2016, Beijing, China, September 17-19, 2016, Springer LNCS,
volume 10082, pp. 251-262.
4. (with Kirill Morozov, Satoshi Obana, ParthaSarathi Roy, Kouichi
Sakurai and Rui Xu), Efficient Threshold Secret Sharing Schemes
Secure against Rushing Cheaters, to appear in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Sciences, Springer, proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Information Theoretic Security, 9-12 August 2016,
Tacoma, Washington, USA.
5. (with Prakash Dey, Raghvendra Singh Rohit, Santanu Sarkar), Differential
Fault Analysis on Tiaoxin and AEGIS Family of Ciphers. SSCC 2016, Springer
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2016, pp. 74-86.
6. (with Angsuman Das), Plaintext Checkable Signcryption, ICISS 2015, Volume
9478, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer, 2015, pp 324-333.
7. (with Prakash Dey, Abhishek Chakraborty and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay), Improved
Practical Differential Fault Analysis of Grain-128, Proceedings of DATE 2015,
available at IEEE Xplore Digital Library or ACM Digital Library. This year
DATE 2015 received 1129 submissions, of which 915 went into the review process
(214 were automatically rejected before review for various reasons). Out of the 915
reviewed submissions, 205 papers (= 22.4%) were selected for either "long" or
"short" presentation at the conference. Our paper is accepted for "long" presentation
at the conference.
8. (with Prakash Dey), Improved Multi-Bit Differential Fault Analysis of Trivium,
Progress in Cryptology, INDOCRYPT 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Springer, 2014, pp 37-52.
9. (with ParthaSarathi Roy, Rui Xu, Kirill Morozov and Kouichi Sakurai), An Efficient
Robust Secret Sharing Scheme with Optimal Cheater Resiliency,(Space 2014),
Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer, Volume 8804, 2014, pp 47-58.
10. (with Sabyasachi Dutta), XOR Based Non-monotone $t$-$(k,n)^*$-Visual
Cryptographic Schemes Using Linear Algebra,(ICICS 2014), Lecture Notes in
Computer Sciences, Springer, Volume 8958, pp 230-242.
11. (with Angsuman Das and ParthaSarathi Roy), Computationally Secure Robust
Multi-Secret Sharing for General Access Structure,(ICMC 2015), Mathematics and
Computing, Volume 139 of the series Springer Proceedings in Mathematics &
Statistics,pp 123-134, 2015.
12. (with ParthaSarathi Roy and Angsuman Das), Computationally Secure Cheating
Identifiable Multi-Secret Sharing for General Access Structure,(ICDCIT-2015), in
Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer, Volume 8956, pp 278-287, 2015.
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13. (withAngsuman Das), Signcryption with Delayed Identification, Proceedings of the

International Conference on Mathematics and Computing - 2013, Springer
Mathematics and Statistics Series, Volume 91, 2014, pp 23-39.
14. (with Angsuman Das), Signcryption from Randomness Recoverable PKE Revisited,
to appear in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information
Systems Security (ICISS 13), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
Springer, Volume 8303, pp 78-90.
15. (with Angsuman Das and Sabyasachi Dutta), Indistinguishability against Chosen
Ciphertext Verification Attack Revisited: The Complete Picture, The Complete
Picture, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Provable Security
(ProvSec 2013), Melaka, Malaysia,Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
Springer, Volume 8209, pp 104-120.
16. (with Liang Zhao, Takashi Nishide, Kyung-Hyune Rhee and Kouichi Sakurai),
Cryptanalysis of Randomized Arithmetic Codes Based on Markov Model ,
Proceeding of The 7th International Conference, INSCRYPT 2011, November 30-
December 3, 2011, Beijing, China,Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
Springer, Volume 7537, pp 341-362.
17. (with Dong Hao and Kouichi Sakurai), Mixed-Strategy Game Based Trust
Management for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks , Proceeding of The Third
International Conference on Trusted Systems, INTRUST 2011, November 27-29,
2011, Beijing, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer, pp
239-257.
18. (with Liang Zhao, Di Xiao and Kouichi Sakurai), Security Improvement of a Pixel
Bit Based Image Scrambling Encryption Scheme Through the Self-correlation
Method. (INSCRYPT 2010 (short paper), Shanghai, China, October 20 to 23, 2010)
19. (with Liang Zhao and Kouichi Sakurai), A New Scrambling Evaluation Scheme
based on Spatial Distribution Entropy and Centroid Difference of Bit-plane. (IWDW
2010, 1~3 October 2010, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea), Digital
Watermarking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2011, Volume
6526/2011, 29-44, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18405-5_4.
20. (with Liang Zhao, Di Xiao, and Kouichi Sakurai), Cryptanalysis on an Image
Scrambling Encryption Scheme Based on Pixel Bit. (IWDW 2010, 1~3 October
2010, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea), Digital Watermarking, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2011, Volume 6526/2011, 45-59, DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-18405-5_5.
21. (with Bimal Roy), On some constructions of monochrome visual cryptographic
schemes , Page(s): 1-6, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/INFTECH.2008.4621609,
appeared in the IEEE Conference Proceedings, 1st International Conference on
Information Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and
Informatics Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, May 18-21, 2008.
22. (Single Author) DNA Secret Sharing, IEEE World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.
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23. (with Tridib Kumar Dutta and Bimal Roy), A New Black and White Visual
Cryptographic Scheme for General Access Structures, Lecture Notes In Computer
Science, Vol 3348, Springer-Verlag, 399-413, 2004.
24. (with Somnath Sikdar), A New (2,n)-Color Visual Threshold Scheme for Color
Images, Lecture Notes In Computer Science, Vol 2904, Springer-Verlag, 148-
161, 2003.
d) Other publications :
1. Volume Editor:
a. Proceedings of IMBIC, Volume 6, ISBN 978-81-925832-5-9.
b. Proceedings of IMBIC, Volume 5, ISBN 978-81-925832-4-2.
c. Proceedings of IMBIC, Volume 4, ISBN 978-81-925832-3-5.
d. Proceedings of IMBIC, Volume 3, ISBN 978-81-925832-2-8.
e. Proceedings of IMBIC, Volume 2, ISBN: 978-81-925832-1-1.
f. Proceedings of IMBIC, Volume 1, ISBN: 978-81-925832-0-4.

12. Membership of Learned Societies :

1. Indian Science Congress Association (Life Member)
2. Calcutta Mathematical Society (Life Member)
3. Life Member of Institute for Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Information
Technology and Computer Science (IMBIC), Branches: Japan, Sweden
4. Cryptology Research Society of India (Life Member).

13. Patents : Nil.

14. Invited lectures delivered :

a. Invited Lectures at Foreign Institutes:

1. Invited talk at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia on

“Visual Cryptography and DNA Secret Sharing: Two Simple ways to Store
Secret Information in a Secure Way” on July 6, 2017.

2. Invited talk at the University of Nagasaki, Japan on “India and Indian

Mathematics: A Brief Overview” on June 22, 2016.

3. Invited talk at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan on “On a Complete

Characterization of Optimal XOR Based Visual Cryptographic Schemes for
Non-monotone General Access Structures” on June 23, 2016.

4. Invited to University of Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia and delivered a talk

on "COLOR VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC SCHEMES USING STATISTICAL
DESIGNS" on May 28, 2014 at the International Conference and Workshop on
Mathematical Analysis 2014 (ICWOMA2014), 27-30 May 2014), Malaysia.
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5. Invited talk on "Design Theory and Visual Cryptographic Schemes" at Graduate

School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, during
November 3-6, 2013 at the JSPS-DST Asian Academic Seminar, 2013 on
Discrete Mathematics & its Applications.

6. Visited University of Kyushu, Japan August 26-30, 2013 as an invited speaker of

the International Conference entitled "Algebraic constructions as a fundamental
keystone of a safe and secure society: Mathematics for guaranteeing the
reliability of the cyber security" organized by the Institute of Mathematics for
Industry (IMI), Kyushu University, Japan during August 26-30, 2013.

The Title of the three invited talks are:

a. Connections among Algebra, Statistical Designs and Secret Sharing Schemes

(on August 27, 2013).
b. Applications of Algebraic Structure in Visual Cryptography (on August 28,
2013).
c. Plaintext Checkable Encryption with Designated Checker (on August 29,
2013).

7. Invited talk on Applications of Mathematics, Statistics in DNA Micro Array and

Secret Sharing Schemes at Meijo University, Japan on June 4, 2012.

8. Invited talk on A Brief Introduction about Kolkata and University of Calcutta,

India at the Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering,
University of Kyushu, Japan on June 1, 2012.

9. Invited talk on Color Visual cryptographic Scheme for General Access Structure
at the Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering,
University of Kyushu, Japan on May 31, 2012.

10. Invited talk on Some Secret Sharing Schemes and Further Studies at the
Department of Industrial Mathematics, University of Kyushu, Japan on
May 29, 2012.

11. Invited talk on Cryptography: An Art of Secret Writing at the Department of

Computer Science and Communication Engineering, University of
Kyushu,Japan on August 12, 2011.

12. Invited talk on Indian Education System at the Department of Computer

Science and Communication Engineering, University of Kyushu, Japan on
June 29, 2010.
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13. Invited talk on Information theoretic discussions on perfectly secure multi-use

multi-secret sharing scheme at KDDI, Japan on July 7, 2010.

14. Invited talk on Interdisciplinary Secret Sharing Schemes at Tokyo Institute of

Technology, Japan on July 5, 2010.

15. Invited talk on On DNA Secret Sharing at Tokyo University, Japan on July 7,
2010.

16. Invited talk on Constructions of some Multi-Secret Sharing Schemes at the

INDO-JAPAN Workshop at AIST, Japan on July 7, 2009.

17. Invited talk on DNA secret sharing scheme and two multi-secret multi use secret
sharing schemes for general access structure at the Department of Computer
Science and Communication Engineering, University of Kyushu, Japan on
June 5, 2009.

18. Invited talk on Visual cryptographic Scheme: A different type of Secret Sharing
Scheme at the Department of Computer Science and Communication
Engineering, University of Kyushu, Japan on May 27, 2009.

19. Invited talk on "Visual Cryptography and DNA Secret Sharing" at the Recent
Advances in Cryptography in Paris, June 11-13, 2007 organized by Indo-
French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research.

20. Invited talk on "Application of Mathematics in DNA Secret Sharing" at the

University of Rajsahi, Bangladesh on June 14, 2007.

21. Invited talk on DNA Secret Sharing and its Application to Cryptography at the
Conference DNA and its Related Topics, May 19, 2006, organized by
University of Linkoping, Sweden.

22. Invited talk on Applications of Mathematics in Developing Visual Cryptographic

Schemes at the seminar Laprochaine session du sminaire se tiendra le vendredi
November 4, 2005, organized by ENSTA, France.

23. Invited talk on Application of Mathematics in Cryptography at the conference

Mathematics and Its Applications, 2005, June 22, 2005 organized by University
of Karlstad, Sweden.

b. Invited Lectures at Indian Institutes:

24. Invited as an Invited Speaker at the 105th Indian Science Congress in

Mathematical Science Section (including Statistics) held at Imphal, Manipur
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during March 16-20, 2018 and delivered an invited talk on “Digital Data
Security: Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography" on March 18, 2018.

25. Invited as a resource person at the Faculty Development Programme on

Cryptography and Networking Security (FDPCNS-2018) organized by the Dept.
of Computer Science & Engineering, Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College
and delivered an invited talk on “Secret Sharing Scheme: An Important Primitive
for Cryptography" on March 14, 2018.

26. Invited as an invited Speaker at the Annual Seminar Lecture organized by the
Department of Mathematics, Serampore College, and delivered an invited talk
on “Applications of Algebra and Number Theory in Secure Digital
Communications" on January 13, 2018.

27. Invited as a resource person at the Two-Day National Seminar on

Contemporary Research in Theoretical and Applicable Mathematics
organized, held during September 8-9, 2017 organized by the The
Bhawanipur Education Society College and delivered the invited lecture
on Algebraic Aspects of Cryptology and its Application to Modern Cyber
Security on September 9, 2017.

28. Invited as a resource person at the “Short Term Course on Fundamental

Algorithms: Design and Analysis" organized by the Department of
Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur and delivered an invited talk on “Cryptographic
Algorithms" on February 11, 2017.

29. Invited as a resource person at the Workshop on “Communications and

Multimedia Security” organized by the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering of IIT(ISM), Dhanbad and delivered an invited lecture on “Visual
Cryptography: A Different Secret Sharing Scheme" (on February 10, 2017).
30. Invited as a resource person at the “TEQIP-II sponsored short term course on
"Introduction to Cryptography" during 27-31 January, 2017 organized by the
Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur and delivered two invited talks on
January 28, 2017. The title of the talks are:
❖ Evaluation of Secret Sharing Schemes.
❖ Visual Cryptography: A Different Approach.

31. Invited as a resource person at the Tutorial of the “Third International

Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2017)" during January
17-21, 2017 at Haldia, India organized by the Haldia Institute of Technology,
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Haldia and delivered an invited lecture on ``Few Aspects of Secret Sharing

Schemes" (on January 18, 2017).

32. Delivered a special lecture on “Applications of Mathematics in Securing Digital

Data” on 14-12-2016 at the City College, Kolkata.

33. Delivered a special lecture on “Securing Digital World Through Mathematics”

on 02-12-2016 at the Bhairab Ganguly College, Kolkata

34. Invited as a resource person at the Faculty Development Programme on

“Preparing for Challenges in Higher Education Institutions" during September
23-29, 2016, organized by the Bhawanipur Education Society College and
delivered an invited lecture on “Cryptology and Reading Numerical Codes" (on
September 28, 2016).

35. Invited as a resource person at the UGC-Sponsored Seminar on “Basic

Mathematics and its Applications" organised by RKMVC College, Rahara,
Kolkata on September 21, 2016 and delivered an invited lecture on “Applications
of Groups, Rings, Fields and Linear Algebra in Digital World" (on September
21, 2016).

36. Three invited lectures under UGC-SAP (DRS-II) at the Department of

Mathematics and Statistics, University of Himachal Pradesh, Himachal. The
Title of the talks are as follows:
a. Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Cryptography. (on May 28, 2016)
b. Applications of Cryptography. (on June 3, 2016)
c. Visual Cryptography.(on June 4, 2016)
37. Invited talk on “Algebraic Aspects of A Special Type of Secret Sharing
Scheme:Visual Cryptography” at the Department of Mathematics, Shiv Nadar
University, Uttar Pradesh, on May 26, 2016.
38. Invited talk on “Linear Algebraic Aspects of Visual Cryptography: Few Open
Issues" at the Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and
Technology, Kochi, Kerala on March 15, 2016.

39. Invited talk on “Future Prospects in Mathematics after UG and PG Courses in

India and Foreign Countries" organized by the Career and Counseling Cell of
Barasat Govt. College, West Bangal, on February 2, 2016.

40. Two invited talks on ``Number theory and Algebra" at Lady Brabourne
College, West Bangal, on October 23 and 30, 2015.
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41. Invited talk on “Applications of Groups, Rings and Fields in the Digital World
Through Cryptography" at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Recent
Trends on Pure and Applied Mathematics, August 14, 2015, organized by the
Uluberia College, West Bangal.

42. Invited as a resource person to the National Workshop on Cryptology 2014,

during September 25-27, 2014, organized by PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur and
delivered the invited talk "OR-Based Monotone and XOR-Based Non-Monotone
Visual" on September 25, 2014.

43. Invited as a resource person to the short term course entitled "A Short Term
Course on Cryptography" from 18th May, 2014 to 24th May, 2014 organized by
the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur and delivered the following
two invited talks on

a. Introduction to Secret Sharing.

b. Visual Cryptography and DNA Secret Sharing.
44. Invited as a resource person to the workshop entitled "Instructional Workshop
On Graph Theory And Its Applications To Visual Cryptography", during March
10-15, 2014, organized by the National Centre for Advanced Research in
Discrete Mathematics (n-CARDMATH), Kalasalingam University, Madurai
and delivered the following four invited talks on
a. Introduction to Visual Cryptography: A Very Different Cryptographic
Scheme. (on March 10, 2014)
b. Mathematical and Statistical Tools to Study (2,n)-VCS (on March 10,
2014)
c. Cumulative Array and Linear Algebraic Techniques to Construct VCS
for General Access Structure. (on March 11, 2014)
d. Color VCS and Future Direction of Research. (on March 11, 2014)

45. Invited as a resource person to annual Program entitled "Analytica 2013", on

September 25, 2013, organized by St Xavier's College, Kolkata delivered the
invited talk on "Introduction to Algebraic Cryptography”.

46. Invited talk on "An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography at the

Department of Mathematics", at Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata on May 17,
2012.

47. Invited talk on "Some Secret Sharing Schemes With Emphasis on Visual
Cryptography" at the Seminar on Cryptography organized by the Barasat State
University, on September 30, 2011.
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48. Invited talk on "Some Secret Sharing Schemes and Further Studies" on July 16,
2011 at the Tutorial Workshop on Cryptology, July 16-17, 2011, organized by
University of Calcutta and COEC, ISI Kolkata.

49. Invited as a resource person to deliver an invited talk on "Cryptography is the

science of analyzing and deciphering codes, ciphers and cryptograms" at the
Engineer, Golden Jubilee Edition Technical Symposium of NITK Surathkal,
during 29 October to 1 November 2009.

50. Invited as a resource person to deliver an invited talk on "Introduction to Secret

Sharing and Some Interesting Secret Sharing Schemes" at the CRSI-IMSc Joint
Workshop on Teaching Cryptology at Undergraduate level during June 15-19,
2009 at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

51. Invited talk on "Changing Faces of Terrorism and Importance of Cryptography"

on the occasion of the Celebration of National Science Day, February 28, 2009,
organized by Indian Science Congress Association.

52. Invited as a resource person to deliver an invited talk on "Visual and DNA
cryptography" at the Workshop on Cryptography, December 5-6, 2008,
organized by Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar.

53. Invited as a resource person to deliver an invited talk on "Changing Faces of

Terrorism and Secret Message Transmission" at the UGC sponsored Seminar on
Changing Faces of Terrorism, a 21st Century Perspective, organized by Gokhale
Memorial Girls College, Kolkata.

15. Awards :
1. “Young Scientist Award” Recipient in Mathematical Science Section (including
Statistics) for the year 2007-08, awarded by Indian Science Congress Association.

2. “President of India Medal for General Proficiency, 2002”, awarded by University of

Calcutta.

3. “Dr B B Datta Memorial Scholarship” in recognition of securing highest marks in the

B.Sc (Maths Hons) of 1999 amongst the prosecuting students of PG Course in Pure
Mathematics from University of Calcutta.

4. Recipient of the "NANUM 2014" travel grant to Seoul ICM 2014, Korea.

5. National Scholarship, Govt of India for Secondary, Higher Secondary and BSc.

6. Gold Medalist, 1st Class 1st in MSc, Calcutta University.

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7. Awarded numerous medals in Sports and Paintings in different competitions

organized by school, institute and some organizations.

8. Other notable activities :

1. Founder
1 Secretary of the International Institute IMBIC, having branches in Japan and
Sweden
.

2. Treasurer
2 of Cryptology Research Society of India (since 2008)
.

3. Worked
3 as the Easter Zonal coordinator for NBHM, Department of Atomic Energy,
Government
. of India, for MSc and PhD Scholarship Examinations

4. Managing
3 Editor of the Journal of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta.
.

5. Visited
V Japan (7 times), UK (3 times), Sweden (3 times), Switzerland (2 times), France (2
times),
i Belgium, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Korea, Malaysia (2 times), Singapore,
Bangladesh,
s Bhutan, Russia, Thailand.
i

6. Volume
4 Editor of all the 11 Proceedings of the International Conferences MSAST 2007-2017.
.

7. Convener
5 of the Annual Event of the International Conference MSAST organized by the
International
. Institute for Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Information Technology and
Computer Science, with branches in Japan and Sweden.

8. Worked
6 as a paper setter, moderator, examiner of different examinations organized by
different
. Universities and Institutes.

9. Worked
7 as Thesis Reviewer of PhD Thesis of different Universities.

10. Worked
. as an external expert member of the Thesis Viva organized by different Universities.
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11. Worked
9 as reviewers of leading journals such as AMS Mathscinet, Discrete Mathematics,
Discrete
. Applied Mathematics, Design Codes and Cryptography, IEEE journals, IEICE,
many other Springer and Elsevier Journals etc

12. Worked
1 as external Committee member of interview for the recruitment of Project Linked
personnel
. at Indian Statistical Institute.

13. Worked
. as External Member for the M.Tech (CS) and M.Math Dissertation of Indian
Statistical Institute.

Date of Last Updation: July 13, 2018