Kunal Abhishek
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS), Weapons and Electronic Systems Engineering Establishment, Indian Navy
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About
Dr. Kunal Abhishek is a Scientist ‘E’ at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), where he heads the Cyber Security & Forensics Group and leads the development of advanced cybersecurity solutions for national agencies. Prior to C-DAC, he served as Group Head of the Network Security Research Group at SETS Chennai and spent seven years at the Weapons & Electronic Systems Engineering Establishment (WESEE), Indian Navy, contributing to indigenous cryptographic and information security systems for naval applications.
He has been instrumental in several Government of India public key infrastructure initiatives; ranging from strategic and defense-focused PKI systems to modern ECC-based national deployments. He currently serves as the Chief Investigator of a MeitY-supported project on ransomware key recovery and has significantly contributed to national cryptography policy, including India’s Cryptography Roadmap and the 2015 amendments to the IT Act enabling ECC-based digital signatures.
Dr. Kunal is the lead author of the forthcoming book in Springer titled “Ransomware Engineering: Encryption Mechanisms and Key Management Techniques”. With two decades of R&D and applied experience, his expertise spans cryptography, ransomware countermeasures, secure kernel development, and applied statistics.
He holds an M.S. in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University with a specialization in applied cryptography.
Employment
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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Head of Department2021 - Present
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Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS) Scientist2012 - 2021
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Weapons and Electronic Systems Engineering Establishment, Indian Navy Software Engineer2005 - 2012
Education
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Publications (11)
- A Custom Entropy Harvester for Consistent Entropy Supply to the /dev/random Save
- 5G and 6G Security Issues and Countermeasures Save
- On Random Number Generation for Kernel Applications Save
- Computational investment in generation of elliptic curves randomly over large prime fields Save
- Evaluation of Computational Approaches of Short Weierstrass Elliptic Curves for Cryptography Save
- Computation of Trusted Short Weierstrass Elliptic Curves for Cryptography Save
- A Custom Entropy Harvester for Consistent Entropy Supply to the /dev/random Save
- An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerability Detection Tools for Ethereum Smart Contracts Save
- Extending Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Quantum Readiness Save
- Interoperability Challenges of X.509v3 Certificates under Link MTU Limitations in PKI Environments Save