Nishanth Chandran

 

 

Department of Computer Science,

University of California, Los Angeles,

3714 Boelter Hall, CA 90095

Phone: (+1) (310) 206 – 7073 (O)

email: [my first name] @ cs.ucla.edu

 

As of 2009-2010, I am a 5th year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at University of California, Los Angeles. I work with Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky and Prof. Amit Sahai and am part of the Crypto group at UCLA.

 

 

 I spent the summer of 2007 at Microsoft Research, Redmond, the summer of 2008 at IBM Research, Zurich and the summer of 2009 at AT&T Research, Florham Park.

 

 I am also a professional Indian Classical (Carnatic) Violinist and have given numerous performances all over India and the US. Click here to visit my homepage.

 

 Research

 

Position Based Cryptography [pdf] [slides]

Nishanth Chandran, Vipul Goyal, Ryan Moriarty, Rafail Ostrovsky

CRYPTO 2009 – Advances in Cryptology

 

A secure cryptographic token interface [pdf]

Christian Cachin, Nishanth Chandran

22nd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium

CSF 2009

 

Public-key encryption with efficient amortized updates [pdf]

Nishanth Chandran, Rafail Ostrovsky, William E. Skeith III

Manuscript 2008

 

A public key encryption scheme secure against key dependent chosen plaintext and adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks [pdf] [slides]

Jan Camenisch, Nishanth Chandran, Victor Shoup

EUROCRYPT 2009 – Advances in Cryptology

 

New Constructions of UC Secure Computation using Tamper-proof Hardware [pdf]

Nishanth Chandran, Vipul Goyal, Amit Sahai

EUROCRYPT 2008 – Advances in Cryptology

 

Improved Algorithms for Optimal Embeddings [pdf]

     Nishanth Chandran, Ryan Moriarty, Rafail Ostrovsky, Omkant Pandey, MohammadAli Safari, Amit Sahai

     Transactions on Algorithms 4(4), August 2008.

    (Version significantly different from that on ECCC)

 

Covert multi-party computation [pdf] [slides]

          Nishanth Chandran, Vipul Goyal, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

          48th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science

          (FOCS 2007)

 

Ring signatures of sub-linear size without random oracles [pdf]

          Nishanth Chandran, Jens Groth, Amit Sahai

          34th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages & Programming

          (ICALP 2007)

 

Education

 

I did my Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering at Hindustan College of Engineering (Anna University, Madras, India) from 2001 to 2005. I joined the cryptography group at UCLA in the fall of 2005.

 

Links 

 

My CV: [pdf]

Violinist Nishanth

Other members in the crypto group: Paul Bunn, Vipul Goyal, Brett Hemenway, Abhishek Jain, Omkant Pandey

Ryan Moriarty’s company: Flotate