Avishek Adhikari

University of Calcutta

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Name
Dr. Avishek Adhikari
Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, Calcutta University.
Photograph, office at Linkoping University, Sweden, 2007.
Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Awardee, 2007-08 (Mathematical Science Section, Including Statistics). The award was presented by Dr M.S. Swaminathan, The Father of Green Revolution in India.
Highest Degree
Ph.D on Cryptography from Indian Statistical Institute under the supervision of Prof. Bimal Roy.
Email
avishek.adh@gmail.com
Research Interest
Combinatorial Cryptography, Secret Sharing, Abstract Algebra, DNA Cryptography, Public-key Cryptography, Sensor Network, Graph Theory.
Associated with
  • Institute for Mathematics, Bio-informatics, Information-technology and Computer-science (IMBIC), Secretary (Honorary).

  • Cryptology Research Society of India, (CRSI), Treasurer (Honorary).

  • Calcutta Mathematical Society, (CMS), Life Member

  • International IEEMS Committee Member (Honorary), International Electronic Engineering Mathematical Society (IEEMS), Egypt.


  • Academic Achievements

  • Editorial Board:
    Journal of the Department of Pure Mathematics, Calcutta University.

  • Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Awardee in Mathematical Science Section (including Statistics) for the year 2007-08.

  • 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 , April 2007- March 2009.

  • 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

  • Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled For Design and Development of Test Suite for Statistical Analysis of Cipher and Random Number Generators, in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta, July 2006- .

  • Visiting Scientist, Linkoping University, Sweden, April 2006- June 06.

  • Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, India, Dec 2005- March 06.

  • Post Doctoral Fellowship, INRIA-Rocquencourt, Project Codes, France, 2004-05.

  • The President of India Medal for General Proficiency, 2002.

  • Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Statistical Institute, 2001.

  • CSIR-NET Junior Research Fellowship (Government of India), 2001.

  • Ranked 1st in M.Sc., Calcutta University, 2001.

  • Ranked 2nd in B.Sc., Calcutta University, 1999.

  • National Scholar, Government of India, 1996-99.

  • National Scholar, Government of India, 1994-96.

  • National Scholar, Government of India, 1994.

  • Publication of Books
  • (jointly with M R Adhikari), Groups, Rings and Modules with Applications, Universities Press, 2003.


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


  • (jointly with M R Adhikari), Introduction to Linear Algebra with Application to Basic Cryptography, Asian Books Private Limited, 2007.
  • Important Publications


  • (with Dong Hao, Xiaojuan Liao, Kouichi Sakurai and Makoto Yokoo), A repeated game approach for analyzing the collusion on selective forwarding in multihop wireless networks,, Computer Communications, Elsevier Journal, Volume 35, Issue 17, 1 October 2012, Pages 2125-2137.


  • (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


  • (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 , Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Elsevier Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.12.015.


  • (with Liang Zhao, Takashi Nishide, Kyung-Hyune Rhee and Kouichi Sakurai), Cryptanalysis of Randomized Arithmetic Codes Based on Markov Model , The Proceeding of The 7th International Conference, INSCRYPT 2011, published by Springer LNCS, November 30-December 3, 2011, Beijing, China, pp. 341-362.


  • (with Dong Hao and Kouichi Sakurai), Mixed-Strategy Game Based Trust Management for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks , The Proceeding of The Third International Conference on Trusted Systems, INTRUST 2011, published by Springer LNCS, Volume 7222, 2012, pp 239-257, November 27-29, 2011, Beijing, China, .


  • (with Mrinal Nandi and Subrata Parui), Domination Number of Cylindrical Grids Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, Volume 217, Issue 10, 15 January 2011, Pages 4879-4889.


  • (with Partha Sarathi 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


  • (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)


  • (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 Octorber 2010, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea), Digital Watermarking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6526/2011, 29-44, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18405-5_4.


  • (with Liang Zhao, Di Xiao, and Kouichi Sakurai), Cryptanalysis on an Image Scrambling Encryption Scheme Based on Pixel Bit. (IWDW 2010, 1~3 Octorber 2010, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea), Digital Watermarking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6526/2011, 45-59, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18405-5_5.

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  • (with Angsuman Das), An efficient multi-use multi-secret sharing scheme based on hash function, Applied Mathematics Letters, Elsevier, Volume 23, Issue 9, September 2010, Pages 993-996.


  • (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 (to appear).


  • (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.


  • (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.
  • (with M Bose and Bimal Roy), Applications of Partially Balanced and Balanced IncompleteBlock Designs in developing Visual Cryptographic Schemes, IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, Japan, Vol. E-90A, No. 5, pp. 949-951, May 2007.


  • DNA Secret Sharing, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.


  • (with Erik Trell), Application of BIBD in DNA Secret Sharing, ISRAMA Dec 17-19, 2005.


  • (with M Bose), Construction of a Monocrome Visual Cryptography Using Latin Squares, Twelfth Annual International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Applications, Auburn University, December 2-4, 2005.


  • (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, 171-185, 2005.


  • (with R SahaRay and Jennifer Seberry), Critical Sets in Orthogonal Arrays with 7 and 9 Levels, The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 33, 109-123, 2005.


  • (with M Bose), A New Visual cryptographic Scheme Using Latin Squares, IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, VOL E87-A, NO.5, MAY 2004.


  • (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.


  • (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.


  • (with P K Rana), A Study of Functors Associated With Topological Groups, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Mathematica, Vol XLVI (4), 3-14, 2001.

  • Foreign Academic Visits

  • (in 2012) Visited University of Kyushu, Japan during May 19 to June 6, 2012 as one of the researcher in the Indian Research Team of the Joint Research Project entitled "Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms and Evaluation on Enhancing Network Security Based on Mathematical Science".

  • (in 2012) Invited and visited to the the Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan during June 3-4, 2012 and delivered a lecture on Micro Array Based DNA Secret Sharing.

  • (in 2011) Visited University of Kyushu, Japan during August 5 to August 20, 2011 as one of the researcher in the Indian Research Team of the Joint Research Project entitled "Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms and Evaluation on Enhancing Network Security Based on Mathematical Science".

  • (in 2010) Invited and visited to the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan on July 5, 2010 and delivered a lecture on Interdisciplinary Secret Sharing Schemes.

  • (in 2010) Invited and visited to the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan on July 7, 2010 and delivered a lecture on On DNA Secret Sharing.

  • (in 2010) Visited University of Kyushu, Japan during June 20 to July 10, 2010 as one of the researcher in the Indian Research Team of the Joint Research Project entitled "Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms and Evaluation on Enhancing Network Security Based on Mathematical Science".

  • (in 2010) Invited and visited to the the Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan on June 9, 2010 and delivered a lecture on Application of Mathematics, Statistics and DNA computing in Secret Sharing Schemes.

  • (in 2010) Invited and visited to the the KDDI R&D Laboratories and had there fruitful discussions with Dr T Tanaka, Senior Manager, Information Security Laboratory, KDDI,

  • (in 2009) Visited University of Kyushu, Japan during May 24 to June 9, 2009 as one of the researcher in the Indian Research Team of the Joint Research Project entitled "Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms and Evaluation on Enhancing Network Security Based on Mathematical Science".

  • (in 2009) Visited National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Research center for information security (RCIS), Japan .


  • (in 2009) Visited KDDI R&D Laboratories and had there fruitful discussions with Dr T Tanaka, Senior Manager, Information Security Laboratory, KDDI, Dr K Fukushima and J Kurihara, Associate Research Engineer, Information Security Laboratory, KDDI regarding the efficient implementation of our as well as their schemes of Secret Sharing Schemes.


  • (in 2009) Visited Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan .


  • (in 2009) Visited University of Nagoya, Japan.


  • (in 2007) Visited University of Linkoping, Sweden during July 21 to August 4, 2007 and attended a workshop on "DNA and its Related Topics" and delivered a series of Lectures on "DNA Secret Sharing and its Application to Cryptography".


  • (in 2007) Visited ETH Zurich, Switzerland during July 16-20, 2007 to attend the "International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 07" at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (The visit was fully supported by NBHM of the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India).

  • (in 2007) Visited on invitation to Paris, France to participate in the Indo-French Workshop on ``Recent Advances in Cryptography'' organized and funded by Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research during June 10-June 15, 2007.

  • (in 2007) Visited University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

  • (in 2006) Visited University of Liverpool, UK .

  • (in 2006) Visited Lund University, Sweden.

  • (in 2006) Visited Linkoping University, Sweden .

  • (in 2005-06) Visited Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique INRIA-Rocquencourt, Projet CODES, France .

  • (in 2005) Visited Ecole suprieure d'Electriciteé (Suplec) Plateau de Moulon, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France .

  • (in 2005) Visited Karlstad University, Universitetgatan 2, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden .

  • (in 2005) Visited University of Linkoping, Se-581 85 Linkoping, Sweden.
  • Research Projects

  • 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.

  • 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.


  • 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 WESEE, MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, Govt. of India to CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,

  • Research Group

    Current Lab Members:


  • Bappaditya Roy

  • Partha Sarathi Roy

  • Angsuman Das

  • Ushnish Sarkar

  • Sabyasachi Dutta

  • Ex-Lab Members:

  • Arindam Roy

  • Indranil Banerjee

  • Tie ups and Collaborations

  • Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India,


  • Department of Primary Health Care, Linkoping University, Sweden,


  • Institute of Polymathematics, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan,


  • Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, University of Kyushu, Japan.


  • Department of Engineering Mathematics Faculty of Engineering Zagazig University, Egypt.

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