Professional Activities

Invited Talks

1. Invited Talk on "Mitigating Randao Manipulation: Is VDF the Missing Link?", December 11, 2025.
   Crypto Winter School (CWS 2025), Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India.
2. Invited Talk on "From Classical to Quantum Cryptography: The Next Leap in Secure Communication", October 25, 2025.
   (Tathva 2025), Annual Techno-Management Fest, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India.
3. Talk on "Consensus and Blockchain.", June 26, 2025.
   CREST CRYPTO SUMMER SCHOOL (CCSS) 2025, TCG CREST, India.
   Slides.
4. Talk on "Fidelis: Verifiable Keyword Search with No Trust Assumption.", July 2023.
   20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SeCRYPT 2023), Rome, Italy (virtual).
   Slides.
5. Talk on "Securely Computing Clustering Coefficient for Outsourced Dynamic Encrypted Graph Data", January 2021.
   13th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (ComsNets 2021), Bengaluru, India (virtual).
   Slides.
6. Talk on "FSPVDsse: A Forward Secure Publicly Verifiable Dynamic SSE scheme", September 3, 2019.
   13th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec 2019), James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
   Slides.
7. Talk on "Searchable Encryption", May 22–23, 2018.
   Summer Internship in Cryptology, R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
   Slides.
8. Talk on "Searchable Encryption", ATMW Workshop on Cryptology (2018), April 13, 2018.
   Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Details.
9. Talk on invited paper, National Workshop on Cryptology (NWC-2016), August 11–13, 2016.
   JNNCE, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India.

Conferences & Workshops

1. Moderated panel discussion at the workshop " AI for Science: AI Impact Pre-Summit Event under IndiaAI Mission ",
   IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

2. Attended the National Workshop on Cryptology 2025 (NWC 2025),
   Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India

3. Attended the Crypto Winter School 2025 (CWS 2025),
   Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India

4. Attended the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SeCRYPT 2023),
   Rome, Italy (virtual)

5. Attended the 13th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2021)
   Bengaluru, India

6. Attended the 13th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec 2019)
   at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

7. Attended IISc-IACR School on Information-theoretic Cryptology , 4-8 January, 2018
   Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

8. Attended MPC School and Workshop, 27–31 March, 2017
   Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

9. Attended ACM India Annual Event, 2017, 21st January, 2017
   Amity University, Kolkata, India

10. Attended Indocrypt 2016, 11-14 December, 2016
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

11. Attended Recent Advances in Authenticated Encryption, 19-22 September, 2016
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Reviewing Activities

1. Regular Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
2. Regular Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).
3. Regular Reviewer, Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA).
4. Regular Reviewer, Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP).
5. Sub-Reviewer, International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT).

Lab Visits

• Visited to "Prof. Kouichi Sakurai" in May, 2019
  at Sakurai Laboratory, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
  Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Organizing Events

1. Co-organizer, AI for Science; AI Impact Pre-Summit Event, under IndiaAI Mission, IISER, February 07, 2026.
2. Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd Frontiers Symposium in Data Science, IISER, January 2026.
3. Member, IISER TVM Committee of Sewa Parv 2025, Viksit Bharat, November 2025.
4. Member, Organizing Committee, The 23rd International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT 2022)
5. Web Co-Chair, The 20th International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT 2019)