Ravi Kishore

Ravi Kishore

Associate Professor
ravi.kishore@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Ravi Kishore is an Associate Professor at Mahindra University with a strong passion for teaching and a focus on research. In the classroom, his goal is to simplify complex ideas and ignite a passion for learning. Concurrently, his research delves into the intricacies of theoretical computer science, cryptography, and information security.

Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT-H, Hyderabad, India.

M.Tech

M.Tech in Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

M.Sc.

M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Hyderabad, India.

July 2023 - Present

Associate Professor at Mahindra University (July 2023 – Present)

September 2020 - July 2023

Post-Doctoral Researcher at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (September 2020 – July 2023).

  • Co-Instructor for various courses, including Foundations of Computing, Advanced Security, Linear Algebra, and Cryptographic Computation and Blockchain.

July 2018 - Aug 2021

Assistant Professor at Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad (July 2018 – Aug 2021).

  • Instructor and Co-Instructor for courses such as Number Theory and Cryptography, Discrete Mathematical Structures, Data Structures, Theory of Computation, and Cryptography and Information Security.

February 2018 - April 2018

Visiting Faculty at IIIT, Hyderabad (February 2018 – April 2018).

  • Instructor for Automata Theory course.

March 2016 - September 2016

Visiting Fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design (March 2016 – September 2016).

January 2015 – March 2016

Lecturer at IIIT, Hyderabad (January 2015 – March 2016)

  • Instructor for Automata Theory and Linear Algebra courses.

Publications

2023

  • CRAFT: Composable Randomness Beacons and Output-Independent Abort MPC From Time. Carsten Baum, Bernardo David, Rafael Dowsley, Ravi Kishore, Sabine Oechsner, Jesper Buus Nielsen. (In Proceedings of the 26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC 2023), Atlanta, USA, May 7-10, 2023, pages 439- 470.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31368-4_16.

    • 2019

  • Perfectly Secure Message Transmission over Partially Synchronous Networks. Ravi Kishore, Anupriya Inumella, Kannan Srinathan. (In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2019), Bangalore, India, January 4-7, 2019, pages 302-306.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3288599.3288612.

    • 2018

  • On Minimal Connectivity Requirements for Secure Message Transmission in Directed Networks. Ravi Kishore, Chiranjeevi Vanarasa and Kannan Srinathan. (In Information Processing Letters, 131:1-6 (2018).) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2017.11.001.
  • Assuring BetterTimes : Private arithmetic formulas. Per Hallgren, Ravi Kishore, Martin Ochoa, Andrei Sabelfeld. (In Journal of Computer Security, 26(4):557-587 (2018).) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/JCS-171085.
  • On the Price of Proactivizing Round-Optimal Perfectly Secret Message Transmission. Ravi Kishore, Ashutosh Kumar, Chiranjeevi Vanarasa and Kannan Srinathan. (In IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Journal, 64(2):1404-1422 2 (2018).) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2017.2776099.

    • 2016

  • On Perfectly Secret Message Transmission in Digraphs Tolerating Dual Failures. Ravi Kishore, Chiranjeevi Vanarasa, Tushant Jha and Kannan Srinathan. (In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2016), Singapore, January 4-7, 2016, pages 29:1–29:10.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2833312.2833327.

    • 2015

  • Round-Optimal Perfectly Secret Message Transmission with Linear Communication Complexity. Ravi Kishore, Ashutosh Kumar, Chiranjeevi Vanarasa and Kannan Srinathan. (In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS 2015), Lugano, Switzerland, May 2-5, 2015, pages 33-50.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17470-9_3.

  • To find his latest publications, follow the dblp page link: https://dblp.org/pid/160/7651.html.

    • Dr. Ravi Kishore’s research interests include Distributed Computing, Cryptography, and Information Security. Specifically, his primary research focus is on Secure Message Transmission (SMT) in a distributed environment/network described as follows. In a large distributed network of interconnected nodes, the goal of any SMT protocol is to securely deliver the sender’s message at the receiver’s end in the presence of a computationally unbounded adversary, that can partially control the network by corrupting some of its nodes (except the sender and the receiver).

    His other research interests are Multiparty Computation (MPC) and Zero-Knowledge Proof protocols, which are essential to building secure and privacy-preserving systems in distributed environments. MPC enables secure collaboration between multiple parties while preserving the confidentiality of their private inputs. Zero-knowledge proof protocols provide a powerful tool to prove the validity of a statement without revealing any additional information.