सौमित्र सनाढ्य

• Professor, Wadhwani School of AI and Intelligent Systems, IIT Kanpur

  • Program Director, C3iHub, the Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Systems Innovation Hub, IIT Kanpur. Aug 2025 onwards.
  • Coordinator, Wadhwani Center for Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure (WC3i), IIT Kanpur, Aug 2025 onwards.
  • Affiliate, AGGIES lab, Dept. of CSE, Texas A&M University, US.
  • Member, Governing Body, GSFC University, Gujarat
  • Member, Board of Studies, Dept. of CSE, NIT Jamshedpur
  • Member, Board of Studies, Dept. of CSE, IIIT Pune
  • Member, Board of studies, Dept. of CS and AI, SRU Chennai
  • Fellow, C3iHub, Year 2024-25
• Previosuly, I have served as the Dean, Digital Infrastructure and Automation, and Professor, Dept. of CSE, at IIT Jodhpur. I have also served as an Associate Professor and Head at the Dept. of CSE at IIT Ropar
• Office: C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

  “Lead us to the good path and remove the sin that makes us stray and wander” - Yajurveda 40:16 (8)

Working with Me:

• For IITK students: Meet me in my office after an email appointment.
  • If you are interested in pursuing your BTech/MTech/PhD thesis with me then please see this note.
  • If you wish that I write a recommendation letter for you (for any purpose) then please see this note.
• For non-IITK students: Currently, I do not have any positions for short-term interns or RA for students outside IITK. I will not repond to emails related to the same. However, I will be happy to consider students with very strong background in Mathematics (KVPY awardees, INMO awardees etc).

Contact:

(This part is copied, with permission, from the webpage of Prof. Stefan Dziembowski)

• The best way to reach me is to send an email to “my first-name AT iitk.ac.in”
• You may find my office number from IITK telephone directory . But I normally do not pick it. The ring-tone is deliberately kept very low (almost inaudible) since I teach from the same place or participate in meetings, and do not wish others to get disturbed due to the phone. If you have my mobile number, please avoid calling me on non-urgent matters.
• Also, please refrain from texting my phone, sending messages via apps such as Signal, Whatsapp, etc., or social media messengers (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). I may not notice them, and even if I do, I may easily forget to reply to them (sorry!). Email is the only channel of communication that I regularly check.
• I generally do not respond to messages from publishers known for sending spam (such as MDPI). I also ignore review requests if they concern papers that are clearly out of the scope of my research interest.

Education

• Ph. D. (2009) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
• M.Tech. (2002) Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
• B. Tech. (1994) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Research Interests

• Cryptology and Security.
• Quantum Computation.
• Blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

Organization and Service

• Member, Centre for Telecom Cyber Security (CTCS), NCA-T, Ghaziabad, Dept. of Telecommunications (Aug 2025 onwards).
• Member, Committee for implementing Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, IIT Kanpur. (Aug 2025 onwards).
• Coordinator, Wadhwani C3i Center, IIT Kanpur. (July 2025 onwards).
• Center Head, Manekshaw Center of Excellence for National Security Studies and Research (MCOENSSR), IIT Kanpur. (July 2025 onwards).
• Dean, Digital Infrastructure and Automation, IIT Jodhpur. (Sept 2022- Feb 2025).
• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), IIT Jodhpur. (Sept 2022 - July 2025).
• Organizing chair, IFIP WG 11.9 International conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi (Jan 2-4, 2024).
• Acting Director, DRDO Industry Academia Center of Excellence, IIT Jodhpur. Nov 2022 - July 2023.
• PC Member, 22nd International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) 2023, SPACE 2023, Indocrypt 2023, ICISS 2023.
• Invited speaker, Chintan Shivir, 19th Foundation day, NTRO, April 2023.
• Invited speaker, Police Diwas, Rajasthan Police Academy, April 2023.
• PC Member, 25th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Crypto track 2023.
• Keynote Speaker, ICCSNL 2022, PSIT Kanpur, 16-18 Dec 2022.
• Invited Speaker, National Workshop on Cryptology 2022, 22-24 Nov 2022, CDoT New Delhi.
• Speaker, 5th TTDD 2022 Conference, Telecommunication Standards Development Society, 7-10 Nov 2022.
• PC Member of CANS 2022, Indocrypt 2022, SPACE 2022, ICISS 2022.
• Organizing chair of 18th Annual IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, Jan 2022.
• Member, Board of studies, SR University, Warangal, Telangana.
• Academic Board member, Bennett University, Greater Noida.
• Member, Jury committee, Cybersecurity Startup Grand-challenge, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, 2020 to 2021.
• Member, Data Analysis Group, COVID management, Govt. of Punjab, 2020.
• Organizing chair of 16th Annual IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, Jan 2020.
• Organizing chair of 14th Annual IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, Jan 3-5, 2018.
• PC co-chair Indocrypt 2016 (with Orr Dunkelman)
• PC Member of: SAC 2019, ACNS 2017, ICMC 2018, 2017, 2016, VLSI Design 2017, 2016, Indocrypt 2021, 2017, 2015, IEEE WCI 2015, SPACE 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013.
• Subreviewer for: Eurocrypt 2015, FSE 2015, ACNS 2015, 2014; ACISP 2013.
• Served as a reviewer for submissions to these journals:
  • Journal of Cryptology (JoC); Design, Codes and Cryptography (DCC); Cryptography and Communications (CCDS); IEEE Trans. on Comm.; IET Info. Sec.; IET Networks; Integration-the VLSI journal; IEICE Trans.; Jour. of Medical systems; Int. Jour. of Computer Maths.; Discrete Maths, algorithms and applications; Computer standards and interfaces; China communications; Arabian Jour. of Sci. and Engg.; Iranian Jour. of Comp and Elec. Engg; Jour. of Info. Sci and Engg;
• Organizing Chair of 12th Annual IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, Jan 4-6, 2016.
• Co-chair Asian Workshop on Symmetric Key Cryptography (ASK) 2014, SETS Chennai, December 19-22 2014.
• Workshop on “Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Cryptographic Systems”, IIIT Delhi, Feb 28- March 7, 2013. (Prof. Vincent Rijmen and Prof. Andrey Bogdanov were the invited speakers.)
• Program Committee co-Chair, International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography Engineering (SPACE 2012), SETS Chennai, November 2012. Link
• Workshop on “Multivariate Equation Solving Techniques”, IIIT Delhi, March 12-16, 2012. (Prof. Ludovic Perret and Prof. Jean-Charles Faugère were the invited speakers)
• Program Committee co-Chair, the 11th National workshop on Cryptology (NCW 2011) held at NIIT University, Neemrana, September 2011