Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Computer Science
Symmetric Cryptography MC 1.40
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum, Germany
ashwin.jha@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
I am a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Gregor Leander's group at CASA, RUB. Shortly before this, I was a postdoc at CISPA. My research interests are primarily in symmetric-key cryptography. Specifically, I work on the design and analysis of symmetric-key modes of operation.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from the Applied Statistics Unit of ISI, Kolkata, in June 2020. For my PhD dissertation, I worked on the provable security of symmetric-key cryptographic schemes under the supervision of Prof. Mridul Nandi. Prior to that, I did my masters in Computer Science from ISI, Kolkata. For my masters thesis, I worked on the cryptanalysis of iterated hash function and its variants, under the supervision of Prof. Mridul Nandi. I received my undergraduate education in Computer Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi.
My CV is available here.
I am one of the designers of the winner and runner-up AEAD candidates submitted in the lightweight cipher challenge 2020 organized by DSCI and the ministry of the electronics and information technology, government of India.
I am one of the designers of several AEAD candidates submitted in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization project.