Dr. Ratna Dutta
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
West Bengal, India 721302
e-mail: ratna AT maths DOT iitkgp DOT ac DOT  in
 

Hi,

I obtained my B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics and M.Sc in Applied Mathematics from Calcutta University, Kolkata. I obtained my Ph.d in 2006 from the Statistics and Mathematics Department of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. I was a post-doc at Cryptography & Security Department of Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore from June 2006 to February 2008. I was with the Claude Shannon Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland from February 2008 to January 2010 as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Currently, I am an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Research Interests

1.      Functional encryption and attribute based cryptosystems

2.      Elliptic curves and pairing based cryptography

3.      Oblivious transfer and private set intersection protocols

4.      Lattice based cryptography

5.      Coding theory and combinatorial applications in WSN

6.      Multilinear maps and their applications

7.      Obfuscation: constructions and applications

8.      Code based cryptography

9.      Multivariate public key crypto-system

10.  Isogeny based cryptography

11.  Financial Crypto for sharing economy

Modules Taught (at IIT-Kharagpur)

MA20013, DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

MA60031, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND SECURITY ISSUES

(2017, 2018, 2021)

(2011, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)

MA60020, INFORMATION AND CODING THEORY,

(2010 - 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2024)

MA21007, DESIGN & ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS,

MA40009, NUMBER THEORY

(2011, 2012, 2019)

(2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021)

MA60041, GRAPH THEORY AND ALGORITHMS

MA60002, DATA STRUCTURE AND ALGORITHM,

(2012, 2013)

(2011, 2014, 2019, 2021)

MA29005, DESIGN & ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS LAB

(2011)

MA10002, MATHEMATICS-II,

(2010, 2012, 2013)

MA10001, MATHEMATICS-I,

(2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

MA61002, SWITCHING & FINITE AUTOMATA THEORY

(2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)

MA11003, ADVANCED CALCULUS,

(2020, 2021, 2022)

MA20206, THEORY OF COMPUTATIONS,

(2022, 2024)

MA61019, OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE,

(2023)

MA30002, MODERN ALGEBRA,

(2023)

Publications

Publications listed in chronological order, at Google Scholar, at DBLP

Sponsored Projects

Ongoing:

 

1.      Title: Quantum Resistant Cryptographic Protocols for Cloud computing

Duration: 2021 to 2025, Budget: 23.76L
Sponsor : ISRO, Govt. Of India.

Role : PI

 

2.      Title: Towards designing cryptographic primitives to support secure decentralized protocols

Duration: 2023 to 2026, Budget: 16.6L
Sponsor: CSIR, Govt. Of India.

Role : Co-PI

 

Completed:

1.      Title: Development of QVPN

Duration: April 2023 to June 2024. Budget: 150L

Sponsor: The Indian ARMY

Role: PI

 

2.      Title: Cryptographic hash algorithm based on quantum paradigm

Duration: 2022 to 2023, Budget: 53.1L
Sponsor : ARQANUM TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED

Role : Co-PI

 

3.      Title: Construction of Optimal Trace and Revoke System in Broadcast Encryption

Duration: 2018 to 2021, Budget: 19L
Sponsor : DST-EMR, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India

Role : PI

 

4.      Title: Constructing New Central Trapdoors and Multivariate Cryptosystems from Hidden Field Equations

Duration: 2018 to 2021, Budget: 6.6L
Sponsor : DST-Matrix, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India

Role : PI

 

5.      Title: Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Primitives using Multilinear Maps

Duration: 2016 to 2019.
Sponsor: NBHM, Govt. Of India.

Role : PI

 

6.      Title: Designing ABE Schemes for Fine-Grained Access Control in DTNs

Duration: 2011 to 2014, Budget: 5L
Sponsor : ISIRD, SRIC, IIT KGP

Role : PI

 

7.      Title: Elliptic Curves and Pairing-based Cryptography for Wireless Communications

Duration: 2012 to 2015, Budget: 10.92L
Sponsor : DST, Govt. of India

Role : PI

 

8.      Title: Secure Key Management in Wireless Adhoc Network

Duration: 2013 to 2015, Budget: 23.688L
Sponsor: ISRO, Govt. Of India.

Role : PI

 

9.      Title: Cryptographic support for Digital Rights Management

Duration: 2013 to 2015, Budget: 25L
Sponsor: CSIR, Govt. Of India.

Role : Co-PI

Students

Current PhD Students (Single Guidance)

1.      PRATIMA JANA (4th year in progress)

2.      M Maria Leslie (3nd year in progress)

3.      SANAJIT PATRA (3nd year in progress)

4.      Suprava Roy (2nd year in progress, PMRF fellow)

5.      Nabanita Chakraborty (2nd year in progress)

Past PhD Student:

 

1. SURBHI SHAW (PhD 2024, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Towards Designing Provably Secure Advanced Cryptographic Primitives from Isogenies for Post-quantum Era

 

2. JAYASHREE DEY (PhD 2024, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: A STUDY ON SECURE POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES FROM ERROR-CORRECTING CODES AND MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIALS

 

3. CHINMOY BISWAS (PhD 2022, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Primitives and Key Predistribution Scheme

 

4. TAPAS PAL (PhD 2021, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: DESIGNING PROVABLY SECURE ADVANCED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES: WITNESS ENCRYPTION, FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND FUNCTIONAL ENCRYPTION

 

5. MRIGANKA MANDAL (PhD 2020, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Optimal Trace and Revoke Systems in Broadcast Encryption

 

6. KAMALESH ACHARYA (PhD 2018, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Secure and Efficient Constructions of Broadcast Encryption Protocols

 

7. SUMIT KUMAR DEBNATH (PhD 2017, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Design of Privacy Preserving Secure Set Intersection Protocols

 

8. VANDANA (PhD 2015, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Designs of Universally Composable Secure Adaptive Oblivious Transfer Protocols

 

9. Y SREENIVASA RAO (PhD 2015, Single Guidance)

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Attribute-Based Cryptosystems using Bilinear Pairings

 

Significant Advisory Role:

 

1.    Subhranil Dutta (Completed PhD in 2024, advisor: Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur). Dissertation: Selected Constructive Approaches towards Linear Functional Encryption with Advanced Features for Cloud Computing.

 

2.    Anushree Belel (Completed PhD in 2024, advisor: Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur). Dissertation: A Study of Provably Secure Advanced Encryption Techniques Using Pairing-Based Cryptography.

 

3.    Meenakshi Kansal (Completed PhD in 2020, advisor: Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur). Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Lattice Based Group Signature, Nominative Signature and Multisignature.

 

4.    Pratish Datta (Completed PhD in 2017, advisor: Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur). Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Expressive and Secure Functional Encryption,Signcryption and Constrained Pseudorandom Function.

 

5.    Sarbari Mitra (Completed PhD in 2014, advisor: Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur). Dissertation: A Study on Key Pre-distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks.

 

Past Project Student:

 

1.      Prithwi Bagchi

2.      Dheerendra Mishra

3.      Tiasa Dutta

4.      Sipra Maity

 

MS/M.tech/M.sc/B.Tech THESIS SUPERVISION:

 

Session 2023-2024 (AUTUMN)

Administrative Role at IIT Kharagpur:

Institute level:

a)      Warden, Gokhale Hall (Jan 2017-Jan 2021)

b)     Acting Warden, Gokhale Hall (Feb 2016-April 2016)

c)      Assistant Warden, Gokhale Hall (Nov 2015-Jan 2017)

d)     Assistant Warden, Sam Hall (Oct 2013-Oct 2015)

Departmental level:

a)    Faculty Advisor (M.Tech CSDP), July 2023-June 2025

b)   Laboratory in-charge (Computer Laboratory) (Apr 2019-till date)

c)    Department Faculty Recruitment Committee (Jun 2023-till date)

d)   Subject Co-ordinator (Advanced Calculus) (Aug 2022-Jul 2023)

e)    Department Administrative Committee (Apr 2015-till date)

f)     Department PG&R Academic (Apr 2016-till date)

g)   Department Computer Committee (Apr 2016-till date)

h)   Faculty Advisor (2nd year of 2 years M.Sc.- Ph.D), July 2021-June 2022

i)      Faculty Advisor (5th year of 5 years M.Sc. Maths & Computing), July 2020-June 2021

j)      Faculty Advisor (4th year of 5 years M.Sc. Maths & Computing, July 2019-June 2020

k)   Faculty Advisor (M.Tech CSDP), July 2017-June 2019

l)      Library-in-charge (Central) (Apr 2011-June 2017)

m)Social & Culture (Apr-2012-Mar 2016)

n)   Faculty Advisor (2 years M.Sc.- Ph.D), July 2013-June 2015

 

Mathematics-I (2016)

 

Mathematics-I (2015)

 

Switching and Finite Automata (2020)

 

Information and Coding Theory (2020)

 

Cryptography and Network Security (2020)

 

Advanced Calculus (2020)

 

Discrete Mathematics (2021)

 

Data Structure and Algorithms (2021)

 

Number Theory (2021)

 

Advanced Calculus (2021)

 

Theory of Computation (2022)

 

Cryptography (2022)

 

Modern Algebra (2023)

 

                                                                                                                      

 

Last modified: 31 October 2024