Welcome to Prof. (Dr.) Sourav Mukhopadhyay's Home Page


                                                      

Prof. (Dr.) Sourav Mukhopadhyay

Professor

Dept. of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

India - 721302

Office, Mailing address


Short intro.:

Prof. (Dr.) Sourav Mukhopadhyay is a Professor of the Department of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has completed his B.Sc (Honours in Mathematics) from Ramkrishna Mission Vidaymandira, University of Calcutta, India. He has done M.Stat (in statistics) and M.Tech (in computer science) with distinction from Indian Statistical Institute, India. He worked with Cryptology Research Group at Indian Statistical Institute as a researcher and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute. He was a Research Assistant at the Computer Science Department of School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He visited Inria Rocquencourt, project CODES, France and worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a post-doctoral research fellow and Lecturer with the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He has more than 100 publications and guided 11 PhDs and more than 200 Masters students. His research interest includes Algebraic Cryptanalysis on Symmetric Cipher, Cloud Computing, Digital Rights Management, Key pre-distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks, Time/Memory Trade-off Cryptanalysis, Functional Encryption, Quantum Cryptography, Blockchain, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency.


IIT KGP MATH CRYPTO GROUP

Group Activities

Past PhD students


Program Co-Chairs: Indocrypt 2024 (Silver Jubilee!!!), the 25th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Chennai, India, December 18 - 21, 2024.


Upcoming SWAYAM-NPTEL-MOOC courses:

1)     Introduction to Algorithms and Analysis

2)     Introduction to Abstract and Linear Algebra


Research Interests:

1.    Algebraic Cryptanalysis on Symmetric Cipher.

2.    Cloud Computing.

3.    Digital Rights Managements.

4.    Key pre-distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks.

5.    Time/Memory Trade-off Cryptanalysis

6.    Functional Encryption

7.    Quantum Cryptography

8.    Blockchain, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency


Career Path (Employment and Education Timeline)

Publications listed at, DBLP, at, Google Scholar

Teaching:

1.  List of courses taught at IIT Kharagpur

2.  Design and Analysis of Algorithms (video lectures)

3.  Cryptography and Network Security (video lectures)

4.  Abstract and Linear Algebra

5.  List of NPTEL online courses offered:

a) Cryptography and Network Security: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025

b) Introduction to Algorithms and Analysis: 2017, 2020 (2 times), 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025

c) Introduction to Automata, Languages and Computation: 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024

d) Introduction to Abstract and Linear Algebra: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

e) Fundamental Algorithms: Design and Analysis: 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

6.  At Dublin City University, Ireland - EE548: Internetwork Security (7.5 credit full course with no. of students is 118), FEB - JUN, 2009.

7.  At DTH SWAYAM Prabha TV (during COVID 19 lockdown situation): a) Delivered 15 lectures (15 hours) on Introduction to Algorithms, b) Delivered 27 lectures (27 hours) on Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

Students

Sponsored Projects (total sanctioned grand Rs. 4.6 Crore)


Last modified: 10 June 2025