Arnab Roy

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck (Department of Computer Science).

Research Interests My research interests lie in the area of cryptography and its applications. I am interested in designing cryptographic primitives, cryptanalysis, and applications of cryptography in security and privacy.

I was a lecturer at the Alpen-Adria Unviersity Klagenfurt in the Cybersecurity Research group led by Prof. Elisabeth Oswald. Prior to that, I was a senior research associate (2017 - 2019) at the Unviersity of Bristol, UK in the cryptography research group, and a postdoc researcher (2014 - 2017) at the Technical University of Denmark in the Cybersecurity group hosted by Prof. Christian Rechberger.

I received PhD in Computer Science from the University of Luxembourg in 2014. My doctoral research topic was security aspects of symmetric-key primitives and I was advised by Prof. Alex Biryukov.

My academic background is in Mathematics. I received master’s (M.Sc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) and bachelor’s (B.Sc with Hons. from the University of Calcutta) degrees in Mathematics. I also hold a master’s (M.Tech from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta) degree in Computer Science.

NEW
  • Paper on algebraic cryptanalysis is accepted at Eurocrypt 2025
  • I organised research workshop ALPSY in January (2025), on special topics in cryptography at Obergurgl, Austria
  • I gave an invited talk at the ASK 2024 (Asian-workshop on Symmetric Key Cryptography)
  • Paper on a new algebraic system for cryptographic permutation will appear at SAC 2024
  • I serve as a PC member of ACNS 2025
  • Paper on MI-based side-channel leakage certification is accepted at CRYPTO 2024.
Scientific Community Activities

  • Program committees ACNS 2025, CT-RSA (2024, 2022), SCN 2022, Indocrypt 2020, PKC 2020, FSE (ToSC) 2019.

  • Organizer ALPSY 2025; ALPSY 2024; SILC Workshop (co-located with Eurocrypt 21)

  • External reviewer Asiacrypt (2021, 2020, 2018, 2012), FSE (2020, 2016, 2013, 2012), SAC 2020, Eurocrypt (2019, 2015), Crypto (2018, 2011), ACNS (2017, 2014), CT-RSA 2015, CHES 2013.

Contact

The best way to reach me is via email: firstname [dot] lastname [at] uibk [dot] ac [dot] at (firstname and lastname here must be replaced with my firstname and lastname)

Office: ICT 3N01
Technikerstrasse 21A
University of Innsbruck