A Webinar Series on “Cryptography, Network Security and Cybersecurity”
Organized by: Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India
Institute Website: https://makautwb.ac.in
In association with: Islamic University of Science & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Institute Website: https://www.iust.ac.in/
The webinar is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Cryptology, Network Security, security in Blockchain Technology and Cybersecurity etc. The webinar will bring together leading academic scientists, expert from industry, and researchers in the domain of interest from around the world.
Chief Patrons
Prof. (Dr.) Saikat Maitra
Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor
MAKAUT, West Bengal, India
Prof. (Dr.) Mushtaq A. Siddiqi
Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor
IUST, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Program Coordinator
Speakers of the Webinar Series
Session I
Prof. Bimal Roy
Head of R C Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security, Indian and Former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute
Title: The current issues in Cryptology
Dr. P. K. Saxena
Scientific Consultant (Cyber Security), Govt. of India and Former Director, DRDO, Delhi, India
Title: Cybersecurity-Concerns and Challenges
Dr. Christina Boura
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France
Title: New MILP Modelings for Symmetric-Key Primitives
Session II
Prof. C. Pandu Rangan
IIT Madras, India
Title: Proxy Encryption - an introduction and new challenges
Prof. Sedat Akleylek
Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Cryptography: Multivariate Polynomials and Lattice-Based Cryptography in the Quantum Era with Formal Analysis
Prof. Fagen Li
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
Title: Hybrid Signcryption and Its Application
Session III
Prof. Svetla Nikova
KU Leuven, ESAT-COSIC, Belgium
Title: Threshold Cryptography against Combined Physical Attacks
Prof. Dipanwita Roychowdhury
IIT Kharagpur, India
Title: Shannon’s Theory and Design of Modern Ciphers
Session IV
Prof. Sakurai Kouichi
Kyushu University, Japan
Title: An attempt to design Post Quantum Cryptosystems from Ong-Schnorr-Shamir via Satoh-Araki --- Non-commutative structure does enhance Security ? --
Dr. Weizhi Meng
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Title: Introduction of Touch Behavioral Authentication on Mobile Devices
Session V
Dr. Geoffroy Couteau
Université de Paris, France
Title: Efficient Two-Round OT Extension and Silent Non-Interactive Secure Computation
Dr. Jinguang Han
Institute of Elec., Commn. & Info. Tech. (ECIT)，Queen's University Belfast, UK
Title: Anonymous Single-Sign-On for n Designated Services with Traceability
Mr. Vipindev Adat
University of Patras, Greece and University of Vigo, Spain
Title: Blockchain enhanced Secure Network Coding for 5G and Beyond
Session VI
Dr. David Galindo
University of Birmingham, UK
Title: Security Models and Designs from E-Voting to Blockchain
Session VII
Dr. Kirill Morozov
University of North Texas, USA
Title: Code-Based Cryptography:Introduction and Recent Results
Dr. Giorgia Azzurra Marson
University of Bern, Switzerland
Title: Security of Randomized Defenses Against Adversarial Samples
Session VIII
Prof. Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA
Title: AI and Cybersecurity: The twain shall meet
Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Title: Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing For Secure Social Networking
Session IX
Dr. Francesco Regazzoni
ALaRI, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Title: Performance Metrics of Digital Design
Dr. Aakanksha Tewari
NIT Kurukshetra, India
Title: Application of Cryptographic Notions in Internet of Things (IoTs)
Miss. Megha Quamara
University Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier), France
Title: Improving smart cards security under the threat of online frauds
Session X
Prof. Willy Susilo
University of Wollongong, (UOW), Australia
Title: Public-Key Encryption with Multi-Ciphertext Equality Test in Cloud Computing
Prof. Rakesh Verma
The University of Houston, USA
Title: Data Science for Cybersecurity: A Phishing Expedition from 18th Century Literature to Fake News
Prof. Yang Li
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Physical attacks and their countermeasures: an unfinished story
Session XI
Dr. Ruxandra F. Olimid
University of Bucharest, Romania and Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway
Title: Privacy of subscribers in mobile networks: changes and challenges over time
