Text Box: Curriculum Vitae

 

Ratna Dutta

                  

Present Address

                          

                    Matri Colony School Road,   

    Natun Pukur, P.O. Barasat,       

                Dist. – 24 Parganas, W.B.,

                PIN-700124, India

                 Mobile No.- (+91)9331868037

E-mail :

 ratna_r@isical.ac.in

 

Homepage(URL) :  

 

http://www.isical.ac.in/~ratna_r

 

·  PRESENT STATUS:

   Senior Research Fellow , Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

 

 

·  PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Date of Birth                        06/04/1976  (dd/mm/yyyy)

Sex                                         Female

 

·  RESEARCH INTEREST:

 Cryptology, Coding theory, Number theory, Algebra, Graph theory,  Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Automata.

 

·  WORK EXPERIENCE:

1)     Worked as a Junior Research Fellow at Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India in the area of  Seismology from January 1999 to March 2000.

 

2)     Worked as a Junior Research Fellow at Stat-Math Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in the area of Discrete Mathematics and Theoritical Computer Science  (Course work with M.Tech in Computer Science) from August 2000 to August 2002.   

 

3)     Currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at Stat-Math Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India in the area of Public key cryptography.                                        

                

 

· PUBLICATION:


Conference Papers

  1. Rana Barua, Ratna Dutta and Palash Sarkar. Extending Joux Protocol to Multi Party Key Agreement, In poceedings of INDOCRYPT'03, LNCS 2904, pp. 205-217, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  2. Ratna Dutta, Rana Barua and Palash Sarkar. Provably Secure Authenticated Tree Based Group Key Agreement,  In proceedings of ICICS'04, LNCS 3269, pp. 92-104, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  3. Ratna Dutta and Rana Barua. Dynamic Group Key Agreement in Tree-Based Setting,  In proceedings of ACISP'05, LNCS, to appear on July 2005. Also available at http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/131.
  4. Ratna Dutta and Rana Barua. Constant Round Dynamic Group Key Agreement, Proceedings  of ISC 2005, LNCS , to appear.


Manuscript

  1. Ratna Dutta, Rana Barua and Palash Sarkar.  Pairing Based Cryptographic Protocols : A Survey,  Submitted in the Journal of ACM Computing Surveys on July 2004. Available at http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/064.

 

· ACADEMIC INFORMATION:

 

 

Examination

 

Board/University
 
Year

 

Major Subjects

 

Class/Division

 

% marks

 

M.Sc.

  (Applied Mathematics)

 

        University of

           Calcutta

 

   1998

 

Applied

 Mathematics

 

First Class 

       

 

 

        71.1

 

               B. Sc.

        (Math Honors)

 

        University of

           Calcutta

 

1996

 

 Mathematics (major),

  Physics, Chemistry

 

First Class

 

 

66.25

 

 

               H.S.

 

 

 

W.B.C.H.S.E

 

    1993

 

     Bengali, English, Mathematics,  Physics,                     Chemistry, Biology.

 

First Division

 

 

83.1

 

 

 

  ·  TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

   Operating Systems : Unix , Sun Solaris, Linux, MS-DOS, Windows 98/XP

   Programming Languages : C, C++,Intel-8085/86 Assembly

   Software Packages : Matlab, Minitab, S-Plus, Minimat.