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To get started with this blank TiddlyWiki, you'll need to modify the following tiddlers:
* SiteTitle & SiteSubtitle: The title and subtitle of the site, as shown above (after saving, they will also appear in the browser title bar)
* MainMenu: The menu (usually on the left)
* DefaultTiddlers: Contains the names of the tiddlers that you want to appear when the TiddlyWiki is opened
You'll also need to enter your username for signing your edits: <<option txtUserName>>
These InterfaceOptions for customising TiddlyWiki are saved in your browser
Your username for signing your edits. Write it as a WikiWord (eg JoeBloggs)
<<option txtUserName>>
<<option chkSaveBackups>> SaveBackups
<<option chkAutoSave>> AutoSave
<<option chkRegExpSearch>> RegExpSearch
<<option chkCaseSensitiveSearch>> CaseSensitiveSearch
<<option chkAnimate>> EnableAnimations
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Also see AdvancedOptions
I began my Ph.D at [[Stony Brook University|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/]] in the Fall of 2010. I work with [[Prof. Rob Johnson|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/]] in the [[SPLAT Lab|http://splat.cs.sunysb.edu/]] on various topics in the general area of Algorithms and Security. Earlier, I also worked with [[Prof. Radu Sion|http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~sion/]] in the area of ~PUFs and IP Protection.
Prior to Fall 2010, I was an M.Sc graduate student in the [[Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences|http://www.ics.uci.edu/]] at the [[University of California - Irvine|http://www.uci.edu/]]. While at UCI, I worked in the area of Network Security (particularly - RFID and Usable security) with [[Prof. Gene Tsudik|http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gts]] and was affiliated with [[SCONCE|http://sconce.ics.uci.edu]] and the [[SPROUT Usable Security Group|http://sprout.ics.uci.edu/projects/usec/usec.html]]. Earlier I got my Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from [[SRM University|http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/]] (a private university in India).
''Internships and Work:''
Jan 2012 - Current: Consultant for [[CA Technologies|http://www.ca.com/us/default.aspx]].
May 2011 - August 2011: Contracted Technical Staff in the Scalable and Secure Systems Lab at [[Sandia National Laboratories|http://www.sandia.gov/about/index.html]] in Livermore, CA.
April 2010 - August 2010: Staff Research Associate at [[SCONCE|http://sconce.ics.uci.edu]] and [[SPROUT|http://sprout.ics.uci.edu]] at the University of California - Irvine.
May 2009 - November 2009: Graduate Researcher (Consultant) for [[Uniloc USA|http://www.uniloc.com/]], a security company specializing in product activation systems.
''Teaching:''
Spring 2011: (TA) [[Network Security|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/cse508-sp11/]] (~CSE508: Graduate Level, ~CSE408: Undergraduate Level), Instructor: [[Prof. Rob Johnson|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/]].
Fall 2010: (TA) [[System Security|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/teaching/cse509-fa10/]] (~CSE509: Graduate Level, ~CSE409: Undergraduate Level), Instructor: [[Prof. Rob Johnson|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/]].
''Academic Interests:''
Applied Cryptography, Information Security and Privacy Preservation, Computer Theory.
''Academic Service:''
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, WWW 2011.
[[The best dog in the world|http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~rnithyanand/marky.htm]]
!!!Office Location
1208, CS Department, Stony Brook University
(or) CEWIT, Stony Brook University
!!!~E-Mail
rnithyanand AT CS DOT stonybrook DOT edu
rishabn AT uci DOT edu
rishabn AT ics DOT uci DOT edu
''2010 - 20 'x' 'y' (hopefully x = 1 and y = 5)''
''Ph. D - Computer Science, Stony Brook University''
Advisor: Prof. Rob Johnson
''2008 - 2010''
''M. Sc - Computer Science, University of California - Irvine''
Advisor: Prof. Gene Tsudik
Masters Thesis: Securing Personal RFID Tags and Infrastructures [[[Slides]|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/Slides/Securing%20Personal%20RFID%20Tags%20and%20Infrastructures.ppsx]]
Thesis Committee: Prof. Gene Tsudik (Chair), Prof. Alfred Kobsa, Prof. Alice Silverberg.
''2004 - 2008''
''B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University [India]''
GPA: 8.69/10.00 [with Highest Honors: First Class with Distinction]
Advisors: Prof. A. Jeyasekar, Prof. S. S. Sridhar
Bachelors Thesis: Application of Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy Preserving Data Mining
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[[About]]
[[Education]]
[[Publications]]
[[Presentations]]
[[Contact]]
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!Updates
!!!April 2012
!!!!Workshop Paper Accepted
The paper "A Theoretical Analysis: Physical Unclonable Functions and the Software Protection Problem" co-authored with John Solis, will appear at the 2012 ~TrustED workshop in IEEE ~SnP.
!!!May 2011
!!!!Summer at Sandia
I will be working at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, CA for the summer.
!!!!Conference Paper Accepted
The paper "Usability of Display - Equipped RFID Tags for Security Purposes" co-authored with Alfred Kobsa, Gene Tsudik, and Ersin Uzun, will appear at ESORICS 2011.
!!!August 2010
!!!!Moved to Stony Brook University
I finally made the move to SBU and will be starting my Ph.D here in August 2010. New email address: rnithyanand@cs.stonybrook.edu
!!!June 2010
!!!!Conference Paper Accepted
The paper "Readers Behaving Badly: Reader Revocation in PKI Based RFID Systems" co-authored with Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun, will appear at ESORICS 2010.
!!!May 2010
!!!!Conference Paper Accepted
The paper "~GroupThink: On the Usability of Secure Group Association of Wireless Devices" co-authored with Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, and Ersin Uzun will appear at ~UbiComp 2010.
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!!!Invited Talks
*Rishab Nithyanand, "On ~PUFs and IP Protection", Sandia National Labs, August 2011. (joint work with Radu Sion, John Solis)
!!! at Stony Brook University
*Rishab Nithyanand, "My New Plan to Take Over the World (or) Attacking Smart Phones via ~QR-Codes", Graduate Research Conference, April 2011.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "~PUFs for IP Protection", Graduate Research Conference, April 2011.
!!! at the University of California - Irvine
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Securing Personal RFID Tags and Infrastructures", M. Sc. Thesis Defense, February 2010.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "An Overview of Techniques for Provable Data Possession", Computer Theory Seminar, January 2010.
*Rishab Nithyanand, Lowell Trott, "Effectiveness of Forward Secret Security Protocols in Mobile ~UWSNs", Probability Models, December 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Zero Knowledge Proofs for Sudoku Puzzles (Related work and Open Problems)", Computer Theory Seminar, October 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Application of the Paillier Cryptosystem in Privacy Preserving Computing", Mathematics of Cryptography, June 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Undesirable and Fraudulent Behavior in Online Auctions", Algorithms for Cyber Fraud Detection and Prevention, May 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "An Overview of ~Zero-Knowledge Identification Protocols", Computer Theory Seminar, May 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Recent Advances in Incremental Topological Ordering", Graph Algorithms, March 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Sudoku as a SAT Problem (by I. Lynce and J. Ouaknine)", Computer Theory Seminar, February 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "An Application of Cryptography: ~ePassports", Mathematics of Cryptography, February 2009.
*Rishab Nithyanand, "Secure, ~Power-Reduced Code Compression", Data Compression, December 2008.
!!!Conference and Workshop Proceedings
* Rishab Nithyanand, John Solis, "A Theoretical Analysis: Physical Unclonable Functions and the Software Protection Problem", International Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices ([[TrustED 2012|http://trusted.trust.cased.de/]]), co-located with [[IEEE SnP|http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/]], Oakland, May 2012. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/TrustED_2012.pdf]]]
* Alfred Kobsa, Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, "Usability of Display - Equipped RFID Tags for Security Purposes", 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security ([[ESORICS 2011|http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/esorics2011/]]), Leuven, Sept 2011. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/Esorics_2011.pdf]]]
* Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, "Readers Behaving Badly: Reader Revocation in PKI Based RFID Systems", 15th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security ([[ESORICS 2010|http://www.esorics2010.org/]]), Athens, Sept 2010. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/Esorics_2010.pdf]]]
* Rishab Nithyanand, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. "Group Think: On the Usability of Secure Group Association of Wireless Devices", 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing ([[UbiComp 2010|http://www.ubicomp2010.org/]]), Copenhagen, Sept 2010. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/UbiComp_2010.pdf]]]
!!!Journal Articles
* Alfred Kobsa, Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, "Usability of ~Display-Equipped RFID Tags for Security Purposes", In Review.
* Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, "User Aided Reader Revocation in PKI Based RFID Systems", [[Journal of Computer Security|http://iospress.metapress.com/content/13800u8q7q5j8773/]] 19(6): 1147-1172 (2011). [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/JOCS_2011.pdf]]]
!!!Technical Reports
*Rishab Nithyanand, Radu Sion, John Solis, "Solving the Software Protection Problem with Intrinsic Personal Physical Unclonable Functions", Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA. ~SAND2011-6603, September 2011.
*Rishab Nithyanand, John Solis, "~PUFs and Software Protection -- A Theoretical Analysis", Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA. ~SAND2011-6673, September 2011.
!!!Posters
* Rishab Nithyanand, Radu Sion, John Solis, "Making the Case for Intrinsic Personal Physical Unclonable Functions", 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security ([[ACM CCS|http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2011/]]), Chicago, October 2011 [[[Extended Abstract -- PDF|http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/CCS_ExtendedAbstract_2011.pdf]]], [[[Poster|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/CCS_Poster_2011.pdf]]].
* Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, "Check The Date: Reader Revocation in PKI Based RFID Systems", 31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ([[IEEE SnP|http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2011/]]), Oakland, May 2010. [[[Extended Abstract -- PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/SnP_ExtendedAbstract_2010.pdf]]], [[[Poster|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/SnP_Poster_2010.pdf]]]
!!!Other (ePrints/Theses/In Submission)
* Rishab Nithyanand, "Securing Personal RFID Tags and Infrastructures", Master of Science Thesis, University of California - Irvine, Feb 2010. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/MS_Thesis.pdf]]], [[[Slides|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/MS_Thesis_Slides.ppsx]]]
* Rishab Nithyanand, "Securing Plastic Money Using an RFID Based Protocol Stack", IACR ePrint 2009/387, Sept 2009. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/IACR_2009_387.pdf]]]
* Rishab Nithyanand, "A Report on the Evolution of Cryptographic Protocols in Electronic Passports", IACR ePrint 2009/200, Aug 2009. [[[PDF|http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand/papers/IACR_2009_200.pdf]]]
* Rishab Nithyanand, "Application of Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy Preserving Data Mining", Bachelors of Technology Thesis, SRM University, May 2008.
Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rnithyanand
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