Speakers' Profile29th June 2018

Prof V KamakotiIIT Madras

Dr V Kamakoti is working as a professor in IIT Madras atcomputer science and engineering (CSE) department. He hasobtained both his Masters by research degree and doctoraldegree from IIT madras. His areas of specialisation includesoftware for VLSI, reconfigurable systems design andcomputer architecture. Prof V Kamakoti has guided severalundergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students and haspublished in various national and international journals. Hehas won several awards for his contributions in his researchfield. Most recently, he has received DRDO academicexcellence award in recognition of his contribution tovarious programs of DRDO.

Dr P V Ananda MohanC-DAC Bangalore

Dr P.V. Ananda Mohan obtained his Ph.D degree inElectrical Communication Engineering from Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore. His research interests are in the areaof Analog VLSI design, VLSI architectures, Cryptography.He has published in these areas in refereed internationaljournals and conferences. His book Switched CapacitorFilters: Theory, Analysis and Design coauthored with Dr. M.N. S. Swamy and Dr. V. Ramachandran was published byPrentice-Hall (London). He has authored two more booksResidue Number Systems: Algorithms and Architecturespublished by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Current-mode VLSI Analog Filters: Design and Applications byBirkhauser. He is a Fellow of IEEE & IETE. He hasreceived the Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal Award from theInstitution of Electronics and Communication Engineers(India) and Indira Priyadarshini Award.

Prof C E Veni MadhavanIISc

Dr C E Veni Madhavan is a faculty at Indian Institute ofScience Bangalore in Computer Science and Automationdepartment. He has obtained his PhD (Control theory) fromIISc Bangalore. Prior to joining IISc as a faculty, he workedfor Air India and National Informatics Centre. His researchinterests include cryptanalysis of large-scale integerfactoring and statistical analysis and cognitive networkmodeling of verbal and visual fields. He has led severalscientific, industrial consulting and development projectssponsored by government and corporate sectors in theseareas and has guided over 100 students. Having more than60 research publications to his credit, he has also co-authored a recently published book on Public-keyCryptography. In 2001, Mathematical Association of Indiaawarded him for his distinguished services in mathematicseducation and research.

Mr V Anil KumarCSIR 4PI

Mr V Anil Kumar is a Principal Scientist at CSIR FourthParadigm Institute, Bangalore. His research interests are inCyber Security, High Performance Computing and ProtocolEngineering. He has more than 30 research publications andhas filed International patents in US and Europe in the areasof Cyber Security. He has worked on a large EuropeanUnion Project called OneLab2 to establish a geographicallydistributed and federated network testbed among PlanetLabUS, PlanetLab Europe and PlanetLab Japan. He was theChief Investigator of multiple cyber security researchprojects from Ministry of Information Technology andCSIR. He has also initiated a long-term programme onCyber Security Research and Observation (CySeRO) under12 Five Year Plan.

Mr Jose VarghesePaladion Networks

Mr Jose Varghese is a Paladion co-founder. He currentlyheads technical delivery of Paladion’s CyberActiveServices. He has over 20 years of IT services deliveryexperience, out of which 15 years is with Paladion and isfocused on cybersecurity. At Paladion, he started withsecurity product deployment projects focusing on Firewalls,Intrusion Prevention Systems and Anti Virus. Jose was alsothe lead instructor for Paladion’s security workshop seriestitled “Information warfare”. He was also the lead instructorfor SANS training programs for GSEC and GCIH courseswhich were held in India. He also manages the ApplicationSecurity Testing team which focuses on deliveringVulnerability Management programs for enterprisecustomers. Jose received his B.Tech in Applied Electronicsin 1995 and worked with Wipro for 5 years before he co-founded Paladion in 2000.

Dr Lakshmi DeviSETS

Dr Lakshmi Devi is working as Scientist C at SETS and hasobtained her PhD (Information Security) from QUT,Australia. Her PhD work is on the mathematical modeling ofthe denial-of-service resilient key exchange protocols. Hercurrent research interest is in the area of security protocolsfor key mangement and authentication. Her recent focus ison the analysis of Blockchain platform, namely multi-chainand using game theoretic approaches for cyber security. Shealso worked in other areas such as design and developmentof DoS countermeasure and secure delegation ofcryptographic computations. She has more than 10publications in reputed International conferences ( RSA, ISC& Indocrypt) to her credit.

Mr Vijayakumar AthithanSETS

Mr Vijayakumar Athithan has around 18 years experience insoftware field and is leading consulting assignments instartups and development of indigenous security solutions atSETS. Prior to that, he worked for HCL and Infosys for adecade. He has proven strong program, project & processmanagement experience in corporate environment andexecuted annual excellence award winning project ( bestproject among more than 1500 projects) in Infosys. PlayedDelivery unit anchor role for Retail–CPG Chennai Infosyspractice and involved in CMM Assessment(HCL) and ISO27001 compliance(Infosys) initiatives. Certified in SCJP,SCBCD, PMP, CEH, CloudF and ITIL. He did his Master'sdegree in computer science from M.K.University, Maduraiand obtained management education from RMIT UniversityMelbourne.

Dr Sumanta SarkarTCS, Hyderabad

Dr Sumanta Sarkar is a Scientist in TCS, Hyderabad andalso an Adjunct Faculty of CR Rao AIMSCS. He did hismasters in Mathematics at University of North Bengal andPhD from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata under thesupervision of Prof. Subhamoy Maitra. Sumanta hascompleted his Post Doctoral Research from INRIA Paris -Rocquencourt, France and University of Calgary.

30th June 2018

Dr Chester RebeiroIIT Madras

Dr Chester Rebeiro is an Assistant Professor at IIT Madras.He completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur and a post-docfrom Columbia University. His research interests are inhardware security, applied cryptography, side channelanalysis, and operating system security. He has one patentfiled for his innovation on obatining resistance to CacheTiming Attacks for Block Cipher Encryption. He hascoauthored a book titled Timing Channels in Cryptography:A Micro-Architectural Perspective published by Springer.He sis currently working on formal verfication approachesto hardware security and fault attacks.

Mr Dinesh ThirumurthyHAKR Technologies

Mr Dinesh Thirumurthy did his MS in CS from IndianInstitute of Science and BTech in CS from IIT Madras. Hebrings to the table a keen sense of product development andownership. He worked in systems development in the areasof distributed systems, big data, networking, caching,bandwidth management, filesystems and embeddedengineering over the last 2 decades, over at my currentcompany HAKR Technologies, previous company RadienSoftware, and also at NetApp, amazon.com and ERNET. Heenjoys a full product development cycle and driving theproduct into the market. He brings in hands onprogramming, technical leadership, management expertiseand top notch product focus. He is an awarded engineerfrom NetApp. But being another common man in India, hejust wishes to serve the nation through his softwareexpertise.

Mr Nalla AnandakumarSETS

Mr Nalla Anandakumar is working as Scientist at SETS. Inhis 10 years, he was part of various R&D projects in thefield of hardware security. Earlier he worked as Lecturer atJaya Engineering college, Chennai. He was also a visitingresearcher at Nanyang Technological University (NTU),Singapore. He received his M.E. degree from AnnaUniversity, Chennai. Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. degreeat IIIT-Delhi, India. He has co-authored 10 publications atrecognized transactions and conferences, and was a programchair of ASK-2014. His research interests include physicallyunclonable functions (PUFs), efficient and secureimplementations of cryptographic primitives, side-channelattacks and hardware trojan detection.

Dr Prem Laxman DasSETS

Dr M. Prem Laxman Das has completed Ph.D. in Mathsfrom Indian Statistical Institute. He works broadly in thedomain of algorithmic aspects of algebra and number theory.In cryptology, his interests include cryptanalysis of publickey systems, pairing-based crypto with applications to cloudcomputing security and aspects of post-quantumcryptography. He is currently executing a project oncryptography for MANETs funded by BEL.

Mrs Lakshmi EswariC-DAC Hyderabad

Mrs P R Lakshmi Eswari is currently working as JointDirector (e-Security) at C-DAC Hyderabad. She did herBachelors' and Masters' degree in Computer Science andEngineering. She has has 15 years of experiecne in Researchand Teaching at C-DAC and NIT Warangal. Her researchinterests are in End-point security, device control, anti-malware solutions and mobile security. She is currentlyexecuting a project on Blockchain technology. She is amember of Advisory Board of SETS.

Ms A SuganyaSETS

Ms Suganya Annadurai is working as Scientist D at SETSand obtained her MTech in VLSI Design from SASTRAUniversity, Thanjavur. In her 14 years of experience at SETSshe has developed core competency in side channel analysisand secure and efficient realisation of cryptographymodules. Her research interests include side channelanalysis attacks and countermeasures, analysis and design ofefficient and secure crypto modules for communicationsystems, ubiquitous devices, and embedded devices. Sheplayed a major role in the establishment of Side channelanalysis evaluation laboratory at SETS for the evaluation ofcrypto modules. She has good number of publications inreputed International conferences to her credit.

Mr K ThirupathiSETS

Mr K Thirupathi did his M.Tech in Cyber Security fromAmrita University, Coimbatore . He is working as SeniorNetwork Analyst at SETS. He has more than five years ofexperience in developing network security products andproviding cyber security solutions to the end user. Hiscurrent research focus is in the area of Cyber Security, withemphasis on Internet Traffic Analysis, Machine Learningand the detection of network attacks. He is currentlyexecuting a project on Deep Packet Analyis funded by BEL.

Mr S KarthikeyanSETS

Mr Karthikeyan did his M.Tech in Information Security andComputer Forensics at SRM University, Chennai. His areasof work include network security, cloud computing, digitalforensics, intrusion detection and prevention analysis. Healso played a role of a cyber forensic consultant for the statepolice departments and other governmental organizations toaid them on security policies and controls. He is aTigerScheme Associate PenTester, an EC-Council CertifiedSecurity Analyst and a RedHat Certified Engineer. Currentlyhe is working as a Project Associate and NetworkAdministrator at SETS.