Aritra Dhar

PhD Scholar and PhD student in Zürich, Switzerland

Aritra Dhar

PhD Scholar and PhD student in Zürich, Switzerland

I am currently a PhD scholar in the System Security Group, ETH Zurich. Previously I was a research engineer in Xerox Research Center India (XRCI), Bangalore.I have received my Master’s degree in Computer Science from IIIT-Delhi, New Delhi, India with specialization in Information Security. I have received my Under Grad degree in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India.

At Xerox Research, I am working on privacy preserving targeted advertisements based on cryptography techniques. I am also working on optimized monitors for Aspect oriented programming. My Master's Thesis was on automatic program repairing. I was also a protocol designer and developer at Trestor Foundation, Canada to develop a new secure crypto currency.

My Bachelor’s Thesis was Security in Wireless Sensor Network and the KPD problem related to it from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata.

I have worked on Static code anlysis, elliptic curve and Finite field, Broadcast Encryption in IIIT-D.

I have worked as a research intern in Accenture Technology Labs (Jan, 2013 - July, 2013), Bangalore where I did research and development work on static code analysis for taint vulnerability in Java and cloud source code and secure anonymity of Bitcoin transaction.

I am interested in programming, theoretical computer science, security and authentication, side channel attacks and Mathematics. To view my publications, search my name in google scholar or DBLP.

I am also interested to particle physics, astrophysics and evolutionary biology, computer games, Japanese animes and manga.

My github profile: https://github.com/aritradhar/

  • Work
    • PhD Scholar @ ETH Zurich
  • Education
    • ETH Zurich
    • Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology