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Hi! I’m Pratyay Mukherjee. Welcome to my academic (and non-academic) webpage!  In my native language Bengali my name spells as প্রত্যয় মুখার্জী.

Bio

I am working as a Senior Director of Research at SupraOracles since June, 2022. I am also a Visiting Researcher at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

I was a Senior Research Scientist at Swirlds Labs during January, 2022 to June 2022. I was a Research Scientist (and later a Senior Research Scientist) at Visa Research since March, 2017 to January, 2022. I was a Post-doctoral Researcher at EECS, UC Berkeley hosted by Sanjam Garg during Fall 2015-Spring 2017 where I was affiliated with Crypto and Theory research groups. My research encompasses all aspects of Cryptography and Security. Recently I have been mostly focusing on applications of Cryptography in the Payment and Blockchain space.

In October, 2015 I received my PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University, Denmark, where I was a PhD Fellow (August, 2012 – August, 2015) supervised by Jesper Buus Nielsen at the Crypto Group led by Ivan Damgård. I spent the final year of my PhD at Northeastern University, Boston visiting Daniel Wichs. I obtained my Master of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (in 2011) supervised by Abhijit Das and Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecom. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (in 2008).

Program Committees

I have served/am serving in the program committees of the following conferences:

Indocrypt 2022, Asiacrypt 2022, Eurocrypt 2022, FC 2022, ACNS 2022, Indocrypt 2021, Indocrypt 2020, Indocrypt 2019, SPACE 2019, TCC 2019, PKC 2019, SPACE 2018, TCC 2017, Asiacrypt 2017, ProvSec 2017, Indocrypt 2015.

Supervision

At Swirlds Labs I (co-) mentored/am mentoring the following interns:

  • Yinuo Zhang from UC Berkeley (Summer 2022)

At VISA Research I (co-) mentored/am mentoring the following interns:

Selected Invited Talks

Teaching

Reviews (External)

I reviewed papers for Crypto(’15,’16,’17,’18,’19), Eurocrypt(’13,’16,’17,’18,’19,’20), IEEE S&P Oakland (’18), Asiacrypt(’13,’14,’15,’16,’18), TCC(’13,’16-A,’16-B,’18), ICALP(’17), PKC(’14,’15,’16,’17,’18), SCN(’16), Indocrypt(’11,’16), Africacrypt(’14), IWSEC(’13,’14), Inscrypt (’13), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (’16), IEICE Journal (’16), Design Codes and Cryptography (’16,’18), Journal of Cryptology (’18).