jak widoczny na zdjęciu obok przebi¶niegI will be completing my PhD thesis and graduating in the third quarter of 2007.
Therefore if you have promising opportunities please do contact me at
bhargav AT cerias DOT purdue DOT edu.
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Short Bio

My research focus is addressing security and privacy issues in Digital Identity Management systems. I tackle the problem of identity theft by developing and applying new and interesting cryptographic protocols, identity infrastructure protocols, biometric authentication techniques, flexible authentication policies and designing policy languages.
Generally speaking, my research interests are in computer security, cryptography, algorithms, and complexity theory. Besides research, I also like to dive deep into the details of practical implementations and real world deployment of technologies. This looks into the business needs and the human factors.

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Education

PhD Candidate, graduating Fall 2007,
Computer Science Department, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Dissertation Topic: Secure Digital Identity Management and Theft Protection.
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Advisor:
Dr. Elisa Bertino
B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics,
with minors in Physics & Psychology, graduated in Fall 2002
GPA: 3.6/4.0

 

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Selected Research Experience

Federated Digital Identity Management [Thesis Research] (September 2004 - present)
  • Advisor: Prof. Elisa Bertino Provide cryptographic solutions for secure identity management in Federations. We further investigate mechanisms to increase privacy and °exibility in current systems. We have designed protocols to protect against identity theft. Also, we look into secure and privacy preserving mechanism for use of biometric data. Finally, we are integrating our solutions with existing Liberty and Shibboleth identity systems. Several publications from this research work are listed in this page.
  • Group Communication and Threshold Cryptography (January 2004 - May 2004)
  • In this project we investigated Intrusion Fault-Tolerance using Threshold Cryptography. We also developed a complete Threshold Signature open source library which uses the Shoup's protocol which is useful in ongoing research in group communication.
  • Anonymous 2-way communication- Gumnam (August 2003 - December 2003)
  • We designed and implemented a prototype for 2 way anonymous communication which we called GUMNAM.
  • Intrusion Detection using Event Logic (May 2002 - December 2002)
  • This research work was under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Mark Siskind. We defined and implemented anomaly based intrusion detection system based on event logic using the SCHEME programming language.
  • Watermarking using Quadratic Residues (August 2001 - July 2002)
  • This research work was under the guidance of Prof. Samuel S Wagstaff Jr. We watermarked images, text based on the quadratic residuisity property.
  • Human Perception for Password Protection (August 2002 - Present)
  • I am doing this research work with Prof. Robert W. Proctor (Psychology Department). I helped in programming and conducting a series of tests and designing techniques for proactive password protection to help people generate good passwords and remember them.

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Publications

For complete list of publications please click here.

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Work Experience

Intel, Folsom, CA. Intern.
Work focussed on security aspects of upcoming technologies and identity management projects.

 Sep. 2006 - Dec. 2006

IBM, Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland. Intern.

Work involved research in cryptography and development of secure identity management technologies.

 Jun. 2006 - Aug. 2006

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Teaching Assistant for Information Security (CS526). Work involved help assigning homeworks, grading, presenting my thesis research and assisting students.

 Aug. 2005 - Dec. 2005
Symantec Corporation, Waltham, MA. Resident Fellow Intern.
Worked on logging, auditing and reporting module of Symantec gateways.		 May 2004 - Aug. 2004

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Security Policy researcher.

Defined security policy requirements and procedures for the university network and communication like use of digital signatures, VPNs, and sharing of university resources.

 Jan. 2003 - Aug. 2003
Beckman Coulter, Indianapolis, IN. Software Engineer Intern. May 2001 - Aug. 2001

 

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Fellowships and Scholarships

Fellowship:

  1. Symantec Fellowship (2003-2005) [picture],
  2. Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship (2007-2008).

Scholarships:

  1. Google Scholarship as Anita Borg Finalist (2007),
  2. Women in Science Travel Scholarship (2005),
  3. Verizon scholarship (2005),
  4. Microsoft scholarship (2004),
  5. Microsoft Undergraduate Research Award (2002),
  6. Finalist Intel Research Competition (2002),
  7. Richard Tapia Scholarship (2001),
  8. Ruzika Summer Research Scholarship (2001),
  9. Dept of Computer Science, Award for Achievement in Research (2001),
  10. Computer Science Dept, Award for Academic Excellence (2000),
  11. Scholarship from Tivoli Systems (2000)
  12. Scholarship for Grace Hopper Conference (2000).

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