Contact

   Kalikinkar Mandal
   Faculty of Computer Science
   University of New Brunswick
   550 Windsor St
   Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, CANADA
   E-mail: kmandal [at] unb [dot] ca

I am an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. I hold the NB Power Cybersecurity Research Chair for smart grid security and privacy. I am a member of Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC). I am also an ACM member, and a member of International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

Prior to joining UNB, I was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I was a Research Associate at the University of Washington, Seattle and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo. I received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in August 2013, and an MTech degree in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in August 2009.

Research Interests

• Cryptography
• Security and privacy in smart grid
• Security and privacy in IoT
• Secure computation, Cloud computing security
• Privacy-preserving machine learning
• Trustworthy data processing systems
• Trusted computing
• Pseudorandom sequences
• Finite Fields, Boolean functions

Opening

I am looking for highly motivated PhD and Master's students who will work on cybersecurity and privacy in smart grid. A strong background in (embedded devices) programming and cryptography is desirable. Please send me your CV along with a research statement.

Program Committee

• SAC 2024
• SETA 2024
• PC Co-chair of SAC 2023
• IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC) 2023
• SAC 2020, 2021, 2022
• EAI SecureComm 2021, 2022, 2023
• NSS 2023

Our Visitors

• Aymen Basly, Mitacs Research Intern, May 2024 - July 2024
• Sumit Gupta, Mitacs Research Intern, May 2024 - July 2024