PhD Student
Pratik is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, Boston University, working under the supervision of Prof. Ran Canetti. He has completed his Master’s degree at the Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he was working under Dr. Arpita Patra in Cryptography and Information Security Lab.
He has completed his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur (erstwhile Bengal Engineering College). He has been working in the area of Secure Computation, mainly Two Party Computation. Concurrently, he had some exposure in Distributed Computing and cryptocurrency, mainly Bitcoin.
Publications
Secure Computation
Megha Byali, Arpita Patra, Divya Ravi and Pratik Sarkar, Fast and Universally-Composable Oblivious Transfer and Commitment Scheme with Adaptive Security . Full Version.
Chaya Ganesh, Yashvanth Kondi, Arpita Patra and Pratik Sarkar, Efficient Adaptively Secure Zero-knowledge from Garbled Circuits. (Accepted in PKC 2018), Full Version.
Arpita Patra, Pratik Sarkar, Ajith Suresh, Fast Actively Secure OT Extension for Short Secrets. NDSS 2017, Full Version.
Distributed Computing
Ashish Choudhury, Gayathri Garimella, Arpita Patra, Divya Ravi, Pratik Sarkar, Crash-Tolerant Consensus in Directed Graph Revisited. Brief Announcement, DISC 2017
Cryptocurrency
Goutam Paul, Pratik Sarkar, Sarbajit Mukherjee, Towards a More Democratic Mining in Bitcoins. ICISS 2014: 185-203