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Computer Science & Engineering Faculty
	Goutam Kumar Paul

Designation

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering , Jadavpur University

Office Address

Room No.: T-3-14

2nd Floor, Civil Building

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Jadavpur University

Kolkata 700 032

India

Telephone (O)

+91 33 2413 1766

Fax

+91 33 2413 1766

Email

<firstname> UNDERSCORE <lastname> AT cse DOT jdvu DOT ac DOT in

Web

http://www.jadavpur.edu/admin1/Faculty/GKP.htm

http://www.cs.albany.edu/~goutam (Older)

DBLP Link

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Paul:Goutam.html

Qualification

B. E. (Bachelor of Engineering) in Computer Science & Technology (2001),

Bengal Engineering College (Deemed University), now known as

Bengal Engineering & Science University (BESU),

Howrah, India

M. S. (Master of Science) in Computer Science (2003),

State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany,

New York, U. S. A.

Areas of Specialization /

Topics of Interest

Cryptology

Algorithms

Automata Theory

Machine Learning

Teaching Experience

Sl. No.	Employer	Designation	Period
1.	State University of New York at Albany, U. S. A.	Teaching Assistant	Aug 2001 to Dec 2003, Aug 2004 to Jun 2005
2.	State University of New York at Albany, U. S. A.	Adjunct Faculty	2003 summer, 2004 summer
3.	St. Thomas' College of Engg. & Tech., Kolkata, India	Lecturer	Aug 1, 2005 to Jul 17, 2006
4.	Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India	Lecturer	Jul 18, 2006 to date

Subjects Taught / Teaching

Bachelor's level	Master's level
1. Programming Language (C)	12. Application Software
2. Elements of Computing (with Visual Basic 6.0)	13. Artificial Intelligence
3. Data Structures (using C & C++)	14. Operating Systems
4. Programming at the HW SW Interface (using C & MIPS)
5. Discrete Structures (Graph Theory & Combinatorics)
6. Formal Language & Automata Theory
7. Artificial Intelligence
8. Soft Computing
9. System Analysis & Design (Software Engineering)
10. Computer Graphics
11. Numerical Analysis

Research Experience

Sl. No.	Organization	Designation	Period
1.	Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India	Summer Intern	Jun 2000 to July 2000
2.	Electronics & Communication Science Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India	Research Assistant	Aug 2000 to Dec 2000
3.	State University of New York at Albany, U. S. A.	Research Associate	May 2003 to Sep 2003, Jan 2004 to May 2004
4.	Brain-Computer Interface Lab, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, U. S. A.	Research Associate	Jul 2004  to Dec 2004
5.	Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India	Researcher	July 2006 to date

Publications

1.	Multi-method Decision Tree Learning for Data Mining, Somnath Pal, Tridib Kumar Saha, Goutam K. Paul, Chinmay Maiti and Ananda Mohan Ghosh, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE) of IEEE India Council, December 20-21, 2002, Science City, Kolkata, India, pages 238-242.
2.	Searching for Hidden Messages: Automatic Detection of Steganography, George Berg, Ian Davidson, Ming-Yuan Duan and Goutam Paul, Proceedings of the 15th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Conference (collocated with 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2003), August 12-14, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico, pages 51-56.
3.	Locating Secret Messages in Images, Ian Davidson and Goutam Paul, Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 22-25, 2004, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., pages 545-550.
4.	Occam’s Razor and a Non-syntactic Measure of Decision Tree Complexity, Goutam Paul, Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, California, U.S.A., pages 962-963.
5.	Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, Goutam Paul, 2nd Human-E-Tech Conference, April 23-25, 2004, SUNY at Albany, U.S.A.
6.	On Non-negligible Bias of the First Output Byte of RC4 towards the First Three Bytes of the Secret Key, Goutam Paul, Siddheshwar Rathi and Subhamoy Maitra, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC), April 16-20, 2007, Versailles, France, pages 285-294. (An extended version has been accepted for journal publication in Design, Codes and Cryptography)
7.	Permutation after RC4 Key Scheduling Reveals the Secret Key, Goutam Paul and Subhamoy Maitra, Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC), August 16-17, 2007, Ottawa, Canada, pages 360-377, vol. 4876, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
8.	RC4 State Information at Any Stage Reveals the Secret Key, Goutam Paul and Subhamoy Maitra, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2007/208, June 1, 2007.
9.	On Non-randomness of the Permutation After RC4 Key Scheduling, Goutam Paul, Subhamoy Maitra and Rohit Srivastava Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error Correcting Codes (AAECC), December 16-20, 2007, Bangalore, India, pages 100-109, vol. 4851, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
10.	On Necessary and Sufficient Number of Cops in the Game of Cops and Robber in Multidimensional Grids, Sayan Bhattacharya, Goutam Paul and Swagato Sanyal Accepted in the 8th Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics (ASCM), December 15-17, 2007, Singapore (to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer).
11.	New Form of Permutation Bias and Secret Key Leakage in Keystream Bytes of RC4, Subhamoy Maitra and Goutam Paul, Accepted in the 15th Fast Software Encryption (FSE) Workshop, February 10-13, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland (to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer).

Invited Talks

1.	Basics of Public Key Cryptography, State Level Seminar on Application of Cryptology in Industry and Cryptanalysis (ACIC), May 5, 2007, Science City, Kolkata, organized by the Department of Information Technology of the RCC Institute of Information Technology and Partially Sponsored by Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS).
2.	Structural Weakness of the Key Scheduling of RC4, 1st Indo-French Workshop on Cryptography and Related Topics (IFW), June 11, 2007, Paris, France, organized by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of France.
3.	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications in Robotics, Robotics Workshop, July 9, 2007, St. Thomas College of Engineering & Technology, Kolkata, India.
4.	On New Weaknesses of the RC4 Stream Cipher, Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR) Seminar Series, August 22, 2007, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Professional Activities

1.	Participated in the Faculty Enablement Program (FEP), June 11-23, 2006, Infosys Technologies Limited, Chennai, India.
2.	Local Organizer, 7th International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT), December 11-13, 2006, Kolkata, India.
3.	Participated in the 1st Microsoft Research India Theory Day, December 22, 2007, Microsoft Research Lab, Bangalore, India.
4.	Publicity Chair, 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January 5-8, 2008, Kolkata, India.
5.	Tutorial Chair, 2nd National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS), February 7-9, 2008, Kolkata, India.

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