Cryptography and Information Security Lab

Department of Computer Science and Automation
Recognition & Awards

Banashri Karmakar has been selected for the TCS Research Scholarship Program 2023.

Banashri Karmakar has been awarded with Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF), 2023.

Shravani Patil has been awarded one of the three best presentations award at IBM Day@IISc, 2022.

Arpita Patra has been awarded SONY Faculty Innovation Award, 2022.

Somya Sangal has been awarded Br. C. Selvam Endowment Award 2022.

Arpita Patra has been awarded J.P. Morgan Chase Faculty Award 2022.

Nishat Koti has been awarded Student Best Presentation Award in the Security cluster at EECS Research Students' Symposium - 2022.

Ajith Suresh has been selected to represent India in the "Window to the World" session at the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

Somya Sangal has been awarded with Cisco Masters Fellowship 2021-2022.

Nishat Koti has been awarded with Cisco Ph.D Fellowship 2021-2022.

Divya Ravi has been awarded second prize at the 10th IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium, 2020.

Nishat Koti has been awarded with Cisco Ph.D Fellowship 2020-2021.

Divya Ravi has been awarded Student Best Paper Award at EECS Research Students' Symposium - 2020.

Divya Ravi has joined Aarhus University for postdoc.

Megha Byali has been awarded Swamy medal for the best M.Tech. Research thesis.

Arpita Patra has been awarded $12,000 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) credits.

Arpita Patra is promoted (fast-track) to Associate Professor by IISc.

Arpita Patra has been awarded with Google India AI/ML Research Awards 2020.

Ajith Suresh has been selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

Arpita Patra has been selected for funding from Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS), Science and Engineering Research Board for the project titled "Cryptography with Minimal Communication".

Mahak Pancholi has been awarded with Cisco M.Tech Fellowship.

Arpita received Tata Trust Travel grant to attend ACM CCS 2019 at London, UK.

Divya received Tata Trust Travel grant and student stipend to attend ASIACRYPT 2019 at Kobe, Japan.

Ajith and Harsh received student stipends to attend ACM CCS 2019 at London, UK.

Ajith Suresh has been awarded with Google PhD Fellowship 2019.

Mahak and Protik received student stipends to attend Theory and Practice of Blockchains Workshop 2019 at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Swati Singla won Second Prize in the poster session of EECS Symposium 2019, Theoretical Computer Science category.

Arpita Patra will serve as program co-chair for ICDCN 2020.

CrIS Lab will be collaborating with IBM IRL on 'Zero-knowledge and Applications of MPC' as a part of OSCP programme.

Arpita Patra received Institute Travel grant to attend Dagstuhl Seminar on Practical Yet Composably Secure Cryptographic Protocols between January 20 – 25, 2019.

Megha Byali received travel support from ACM-India/IARCS and CCS 2018 Student Travel Grants to attend ACM CCS 2018.

Arpita Patra has been awarded with NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2018)

Arpita Patra and Divya Ravi received travel support from Google Inc. and Microsoft Research India / IARCS respectively to attend CRYPTO 2018.

Arpita Patra has been elected as a member of IARCS (Indian Association for Research in Computer Science) Executive Council for the next three years.

Pratik Sarkar has been selected for funding from Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems for the project titled "Computing on private data in high-latency networks".

Divya Ravi has been offered funding to attend RWC 2018.

Arpita Patra has been selected for TWAS Young Affiliateship 2017 from the Central and South Asian Region for a period of 5 years.

Arpita Patra has been awarded with INAE Young Engineer Award 2017.

Arpita Patra has been awarded with SERB Women Excellence Award 2017.

Arpita Patra has been recognized as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2015-2018).

Arpita Patra has secured the DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship (2015-2020).

Ajith Suresh has been awarded with a commendation certificate in recognition of his excellent Ph.D thesis.