Professor Avishek Adhikari

Research Projects

Completed Projects

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of Pseudo Random Number Generators for use in Key Generation Systems, of amount Rs. 7.60 lakhs for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt of India in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.
4. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of Pseudo Random Number Generators for use in Key Generation Systems, of amount Rs. 7.60 lakhs for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt of India in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.
5. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of Strong Boolean functions with Cryptographic properties, of amount Rs. 6.30 lakhs for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt of India in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.
6. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled Design and development of Resilient Key Management for Secure Symmetric Implementation, of amount Rs. 8.75 lakhs, for 180 days, 2010-2011, funded by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt of India in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.
7. 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 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, Govt of India, in collaboration with CRYPTOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,
8. Co-investigator of the Joint Research Project entitled “Computational Aspects of Mathematical Design and Analysis of Secure Communication Systems Based on Cryptographic Primitives”, of amount Rs. 6.16 lakhs, 2014-2016, India-Japan Science Council supported by DST-JSPS Science and Technology Program in collaboration with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Kyushu University, Japan.

Current projects

• Principal-investigator of the Research Project entitled Constructions and Analysis of Some Secret Sharing Schemes and Their Applications Using Mathematical and Statistical Tools, of amount Rs. 11,51,500/-, for 3 years from January, 2014, funded by National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.