Goutam Paul

Goutam Paul completed his undergraduate in Computer Engineering in 2001 from Bengal Engineering College (Deemed University), now Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, Howrah, India; Master degree in Computer Science in 2003 from State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, U.S.A.; and Ph.D. in Cryptology in 2009 from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (degree awarded from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India).From 2006 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Jadavpur University and during 2012-2013, he visited RWTH Aachen, Germany as a Humboldt Fellow. From August 2013, Goutam Paul has been serving the R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, as an Assistant Professor. He also received the Young Scientist Award from the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) in 2013. His doctoral research focussed on the analysis of RC4, the then most popular and most widely commercially deployed software stream cipher and also the then standard encryption tool for IEEE WiFi protocol; and his work revealed many critical weaknesses of the cipher and initiated a chain of subsequent research by others in this area. Later he also worked on the analysis of other stream ciphers like HC-128, Grain-v1, Salsa20. Recently, he has taken up keen interest in efficient hardware design of cryptographic primitives and in the analysis of BB84-like quantum key distribution protocols. Goutam Paul is the author of one book and more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He regularly serves as the TPC member of many top conferences, reviewer of many premier journals and presents invited seminars in internationally acclaimed venues. He is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.