Author: Bimal Kumar Roy

Bimal Kumar Roy is a former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He is Founder and General-Secretary, Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI). He is a cryptologist from the Cryptology Research Group of the Applied Statistics Unit of ISI,  Kolkata. He received Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization in 1982 from the University of Waterloo under the joint supervision of Ronald C. Mullin and Paul Jacob Schellenberg. Currently, he is working on Combinatorics, and application of Statistics in Cryptology and Design of Experiments. In 2015, He was awarded Padma Shri, India”s fourth-highest civilian honour, recognizing his accomplishments and contribution to education. In 2019, He was appointed as the chairperson of the National Statistical Commission, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. He has been a driving force in advancing the important field of cryptology in India, elevating its visibility to international level. He devoted his career to strengthening India”s standing in this timely, fast advancing field.   Atul Chaturvedi is currently working as Professor in Mathematics at PSIT, Kanpur. He has received his M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D from Dr.B.R.A University, Agra. His research interests include Cryptography and Network Security protocols particularly Lattice based cryptography and Non Commutative Ring based cryptography. He is a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA). He has published various books, research papers in reputed journals and reviewer of many International journals. He has been convener of many national and international conferences/workshops in the area of Cryptology & Network Security under the aegis of various prestigious societies/ organizations like DRDO, ISI Kolkata, AICTE, ISTE etc. He is copyright owner of many cryptographic algorithms (from Department of Industrial policy and promotion, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India). He has/is guided/guiding many doctoral research fellows in the area of Cryptography and Network Security.    Boaz Tsaban is an Israeli mathematician at the faculty of Bar-Ilan University working as a capacity of Professor. His research interests include selection principles within Set Theory and Nonabelian Cryptology, within Mathematical Cryptology. At the age of 16 he was selected with other high school students to attend the first cycle of a special preparation program in mathematics, at Bar-Ilan University, being admitted to regular mathematics courses at the University a year later. He has completed his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees with highest distinctions. Two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Hebrew University were followed by a three-year Koshland Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science before he joined the Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University in 2007. Tsaban”s doctoral dissertation, supervised by Hillel Furstenberg, won, with Irit Dinur, the Nessyahu prize for the best Ph.D. in mathematics in Israel in 2003. In 2009 he won the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.   Sartaj Ul Hasan is working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Jammu. Prior to joining IIT Jammu, he was a Scientist in DRDO, Delhi from February 2007 to January 2018. From September 2011 to December 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University, Canada, where he worked with Professor Daniel Panario and Professor Qiang Wang. He received his Ph. D. in 2010 from the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, where he was a student of Professor Sudhir R. Ghorpade. His main areas of research interests include Finite Fields, Cryptography, and Coding Theory. He is guiding many doctoral candidates in the field of cryptology and editor of many international journals. He has delivered invited talks/guest lecturers in various institutions of international repute.