M. Sethumadhavan

Biography

Prof. M. Sethumadhavan is the Head of TIFAC-Centre of Relevance and Excellence in Cyber Security, an R&D centre at Amrita University Coimbatore campus founded in the year 2005. He leads the R&D that focuses on cyber security, Cryptology, Steganography, Secure Coding, Computer Network Security, Digital Forensics etc. A central focus of his work has been to create innovative educational and research programs and develop world-class expertise in Cyber Security as the underlying vision. TIFAC CORE at Amrita is a collaborative alliance of academic and industrial partners. Prof. Sethumadhavan is the Principal Investigator for several Cyber Security Research projects funded by organizations such as Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), Department of Science & Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India. Total amount of the project is now more than Rs. Five crores. The TIFAC-CORE gives significant thrust to the frontier areas of Cyber Security, including technology, practice, management, and policy issues. Some of his latest research papers in cryptography appeared in journals like Discrete Applied Mathematics, IET Information Security, Journal of Mathematical Cryptology. These are related to Boolean Functions, Authenticated Encryption and Hash functions. He had guided three PhD students in Cryptography. The theses are the following: Design and Analysis of Initialization Vector Dependent Stream Ciphers, On the Complexity Measures of Multisequences and on Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions. Currently he is guiding seven PhD Students

Research Interest

Number Theory, Cryptology