Kapaleeswaran (Kapali) Viswanathan

Research Scientist
Mobile and Immersive Experience Lab
Bangalore

Biography

Current interest:
The current research activity is to analyse, design, and prototype a secure, usable, and seamless distributed software system for sharing data. I am considering the use of concepts and tools provided by the Waterken system This is a Non-HP site. The topics of interest for this activity are distributed software systems, flexible access control mechanisms such as object-capability systems This is a Non-HP site (useful talk This is a Non-HP site by David Wagner at Google) , non-interactive or minimally-interactive cryptography protocols, and ideas for exploring the boundaries between co-operation and security This is a Non-HP site, if that is possible.

Research history:
2008-2009: HPL India: Hardcopy generation and image security. How to verify that a printed hardcopy was modified or not? How to authenticate who printed the hardcopy?

2005-2008: ABB Corporate Research This is a Non-HP site: Research, analysis, design, and development of Secure Industrial Control System (or SCADA systems) with an emphasis on communication security systems for safe, reliable, and real-time distributed computing systems with highly resource constrained computing elements such as industrial controllers.

2003-2005: SETS  This is a Non-HP site: Research, analysis, and design of a 2 Mbps E1 link security system and management of associated development activities using Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

2001-2003: ISI-QUT This is a Non-HP site: Research, analysis, and design of state-of-art denial of service mitigation module. Research, analysis, design, and development of a commercial key recovery system. Development of a 3G security system using Java language.

1998-2001: ISI-QUT This is a Non-HP site: Doctoral thesis on Compliant Cryptology Systems. How to design a protocol suite and associated cryptosystem that can engender trust between two mutually mistrusting sets of users? Examples of such systems are key recovery systems, traceable e-cash systems, secure e-auctions, secure e-voting systems, and secure selection systems.

1998: ISI-QUT This is a Non-HP site: Study of cryptography export controls and Intel's ring architecture for providing microprocessor-level access-control-bootstrap support.

Education:
2001: PhD (Queensland University of Technology [QUT] - Information Security Institute This is a Non-HP site, Australia)
1998: Graduate Diploma in IT (QUT)
1995: Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics - Bangalore University)

 

Research interests

I am interested in researching for novel and secure information systems with an emphasis on cryptology and communication theory. Some areas of interests have been key recovery systems, electronic auctions, electronic voting, electronic cash, and communication security systems.

Awards

  • 2007: Four ABB Corporate Research grants.
  • 2004: A large research grant from the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India to the Society of Electronic Transactions and Security for INR 1,00,00,000 (approximately USD 250,000 in 2004).

    • Publications

    Most of my publications are listed on the following web sites.
    http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/v/Viswanathan:Kapali.html This is a Non-HP site
    http://en.scientificcommons.org/kapali_viswanathan This is a Non-HP site

    Patents

    2

    Professional activities

  • Co-editor of the 5th International Conference on Cryptology in India, INDOCRYPT 2004, Lecture Notes in Computing Science, Vol 3348.
  • Program Committee Contributions
  • Guest lectures on information security