Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA 2025)

Inauguration (10:00 - 11:00)

• Welcome Address: Shri Aashish Banati, Deputy Controller (Technology), O/o CCA, MeitY
• Introduction to PKIA 2025: Prof. R. K Shymasundar, General Chair, PKIA 2025
• Address by General Co-Chair: Dr. Sunil Vuppala, Chair, IEEE CS Bangalore Chapter
• Address by General Co- Chair: Dr. Prasant Misra, Senior Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services
• Address by General Chair: Dr. S D Sudarsan, Executive Director, C-DAC Bangalore
• Address by Director General, C-DAC: Shri Magesh Ethirajan, Patron, PKIA 2025
• Inaugural Address by Chief Guest: TBA
• Vote of Thanks: Dr. Balaji R., Scientist 'F', C-DAC, Bengaluru

Welcome Address

• Speaker: Shri Aashish Banati, Deputy Controller (Technology),
  O/o CCA, MeitY
• Bio: Shri Aashish Banati, is a Deputy Controller (Technology) in the office of Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA). He has had an illustrious tenure and has made indispensable contributions throughout his extensive career at Ministry of Electronics & IT in various capacities. Spanning over three decades, his journey has been defined by a series of noteworthy achievements and exemplary leadership across various pivotal roles. His expertise and proficiency in software and hardware security have been not only instrumental but also a guiding force in his relentless pursuit of excellence. His ability to ensure product quality and adherence to industry standards, such as ISO, IEC, IECQ, IEEE, JIS, and JSS, has set a remarkable benchmark. His outstanding leadership in overseeing teams of engineers and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence has been highly commendable. The successful management and motivation of test teams for significant E-governance projects, including NSDG, MCA21, Passport Seva MoUD, stand as testament to his strategic vision and commitment to promoting indigenous token solutions and standardized protocols. He has led the Indian Common Criteria scheme at STQC and spearheading the Biometric Device Certification scheme, which was acknowledged and appreciated by esteemed individuals like Shri Nandan Nilekani ji, showcase his profound influence and expertise in the domain. In his role as Deputy Controller (Technology), his diligence and dedication in regulating Digital Signatures and driving global mutual recognition initiatives have significantly contributed to the safety and security of the entire digital ecosystem. His leadership in the domains of PKI, Digital Signature, and Post Quantum Crypto has played a pivotal role in upholding the highest standards of security. He has also been promoting the indigenisation in the CCA ecosystem which will soon be seen in tokens, software, common API, tools for fraud prevention etc. His unwavering commitment to the Office of Controller of Certifying Authorities and relentless efforts in shaping its framework and operations have been indispensable. His impact has reverberated not just within the organization but also across the broader digital security landscape.

Introduction to PKIA 2025

• Speaker: Prof. R. K Shymasundar, General Chair, PKIA 2025
• Bio: R K Shyamasundar is a Life Fellow of IEEE a Fellow of ACM, Distinguished ACM Speaker, a Distinguished Alumnus of Indian Institute of Science, served as IEEE Distinguished Speaker, and was the founding Dean of School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has been JC Bose National Fellow at TIFR and IIT Bombay and he is an INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering) Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay. He is an Adjunct Professor, NITIE, Mumbai.

Address by General Co-Chair

• Speaker: Dr. Sunil Vuppala, General Co-Chair, IEEE CS Bangalore Chapter
• Bio: Sunil Kumar Vuppala is the VP - AI Labs at Aurigo, Bangalore. Sunil has 21 years of industrial and research experience in Machine learning, Deep learning, Analytics, Internet of Things, and Automation. Sunil worked in Oracle, Infosys R&D, Philips and Ericsson before joining Aurigo. Sunil is an inventor of 40+ patents (6 US granted and 35+ published), published 30+ papers, and delivered 100+ guest lectures. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE, and a fellow of IETE and IEI. He is one of the Top 10 data scientists in India for 2019, recipient of Zinnov Technical Role Model in Emerging Technology award 2020, IEEE TEMS Engineering Manager of the Year 2020, and ACM distinguished speaker, Thinkers360 global thought leader in AI, Analytics and IETE - Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award for 2021. He is the chair of IEEE CS Bangalore chapter. He is a visiting faculty in premier institutes. He is an alumnus of IIT Roorkee, IIIT Bangalore, IIM Ahmedabad and NLSIU, Bangalore.

Address by General Co-Chair

• Speaker: Dr. Prasant Misra, General Co-Chair, PKIA 2025
• Bio: Dr. Prasant Misra is a Senior Scientist at TCS Research and a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Cyber Physical Systems at IISc Bangalore. His current research is centered around optimization and decision intelligence for operations management of urban mobility and infrastructure systems. Over his 18+ years of professional experience, he has been felicitated by numerous honors and awards for his work, of which it is noteworthy to mention the MIT TR35 India and the TCS "Exemplary Contribution Award" in 2017; the ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" and "Marie Curie" Fellowship in 2012; and the Australian Government's AusAID "Australian Leadership Awards" in 2008. Dr. Misra actively contributes to the broader scientific and professional community through his involvement with a wide range of academic, industry, and government bodies (including IEEE/ACM/MeitY) and editorial boards. He also plays an active advisory role in public technology policy and capacity-building initiatives. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Address by Executive Director, C-DAC Bangalore

• Speaker: Dr. S D Sudarsan, General Chair, PKIA 2025
• Bio: Dr. S. D. Sudarsan is the Executive Director at C-DAC Bangalore since August 2020. He has more than three decades of R&D experience as Researcher and Manager in various domains of ICT. Prior to the current assignment, he served as R&D Manager at ABB, Visiting Scientist at US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), USA, Group Head at the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Scientist at funded R&D institutions. He is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA for Masters and PhD respectively. He is actively involved with professional bodies including IEEE, ACM, and IETE. He has contributed to various standard related activities at IEC/ISO/BIS and has served in various committees as well as task forces. He has multiple patents, and research publications in peer-reviewed International Journals and Conferences. His areas of specialization include Wireless Communications, Next Generation Networks, Quantum Computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Cyber Security, Industrial IoT, R&D Management, IPR. He leads the domains including Safety and Mission Critical Systems; Quantum Computing, Cyber Security, IoE, HPC etc. Dr. Sudarsan is an outstanding professional, great mentor, industrious and an altruist.

Address by Director General, C-DAC

• Speaker: Shri Magesh Ethirajan, Patron, PKIA 2025
• Bio: Shri E. Magesh has taken charge as Director General, C-DAC since April 2022. He is spearheading the National Mission Programs like the National Supercomputing Mission, Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) and C-DAC Mission Mode Programs in HPC, AI, Cyber Security, Quantum Computing and Next Generation Computing. Since June 2023, he is also assigned with the Additional Charge as Director General, Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET). Under his leadership, C-MET is continuing to develop leapfrogging electronic materials technologies such as Compound semiconductors for high power devices, ultra high purity materials for National Semiconductor Mission, Quantum & 2D materials, resource efficiency and circular economy through e-waste recycling, niche ceramic and composite materials for 5G & 6G communications etc. Prior to this Shri Magesh was heading C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram Centre as Executive Director, C-DAC Hyderabad Centre as Director and has also served as Vice President of MNC. Shri Magesh has more than 29 years of diversified experience ranging from Design Engineering, Project Management and delivery of turnkey projects. He has in depth expertise in Electronics and CHIP design, VLSI, Hardware, IP, Complete Product Cycle. He was also responsible for SOC integration, front end to backend, tape-out and silicon validation, interfacing with various functional groups to deliver tested products and managed various ASIC tape-out for customers. Leveraging three decades of his technology expertise, Shri Magesh has significantly contributed towards end-to-end mission planning of national importance, design, integration and analysis. His innovative contributions, particularly the strategies adopted in R&D towards realising 25 Plus ASIC/CHIP, C-DAC’s indigenous series 32/64 bit RISCV based of Processor called VEGA, and SOC’s called THEJAS under National Microprocessor Development Program, development of 20 Petaflops Supercomputing Facility with indigenous ‘RUDRA Server Board’, TRINETRA High Speed Interconnect, designing and making our own ‘RISC-V based Chip’ and 96 core ARM 64bit Processor in 5 nano meter for India first HPC SOC towards Exa-scale computing to ‘HPC Storage’ to ‘HPC-AI Converged Solutions for high level projects of national importance like Safe City including ERSS and Smart Cities, Integrated Cyber Physical Systems, AI based Anomaly Detection for Cyber Security, establishing first of its kind AI Specific National Critical Cloud Infrastructure, HPC-AI Converged Processor has put a good foundation for launch of various indigenous products and solutions making our country self-reliant and in line with the goals of AatmaNirbhar Bharat and Digital India. His visionary approach in conceptualizing ideas in Quantum Technologies is helping to establish a Quantum Computer. This shall enable develop applications to solve grand challenges and societal problems having economic impact leveraging cutting edge scientific research for India’s sustainable development.

Inaugural Address by Chief Guest

Vote of Thanks

• Speaker: Dr. Balaji R., Scientist 'F', C-DAC, Bengaluru
• Bio: Dr. Balaji Rajendran is working as a Scientist 'F' and heads the Resilient Information Systems and Engineering (RISE) Group at C-DAC Bangalore. He is currently leading the Open Challenge for development of Indigenous Web Browser for the country. He established the Centre of Excellence in DNS Security with the support of the Ministry and Industry. Under his leadership, a national level project effort for developing Next Generation Smart Applications enabled with digital trust is being undertaken. He is an Internet evangelist and had established a forum (Indian Internet Research and Engineering Forum) for promoting the development of Internet Protocol Standards in India. He has executed several funded (both National and International) and commercial projects predominantly in the areas of Information Security, and Critical Information Infrastructure. He has more than 22+ years of R&D experience in various niche segments of IT. He has published 50+ research papers in various International Conferences and Journals. He is a Fellow of IETE, Senior Member of IEEE, member of ACM, and National Expert Member for developing IoT Security Standards by ISO. He has received national and international fellowships for attending Internet Research and Engineering meetings and cyber security training. He has delivered 100+ technical talks in various prestigious forums. He is a mentor for PhD scholars in the domain of Cyber Security, and a co-supervisor at prestigious institutions (NITs, IITs & IISc). He has received various fellowship awards for Internet leadership and professional development. His research interests and work areas are in the domain of smart, secure, and resilient information systems.

High Tea and Exhibition Inaugural(11:00 - 12:00)

Keynote Talk 1 (12:00 - 12:45)

Invited Talk 1 (12:45 - 13:30)

• Title: High-Level Synthesis Based Hardware Security and IP Core Protection (IPP).
• Speaker: Prof. Anirban Sengupta,
  Professor of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, MP
• Bio: Anirban Sengupta (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He is a Professor in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. He is an elected Fellow of IET, a Fellow of British Computer Society, and a Fellow of IETE. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Consumer Technology Society.

Lunch and Visit to Exhibition Stall (13:30 - 14:30)

Lightning Talk 1 (14:30 - 14:50)

Lightning Talk 2 (14:50 - 15:10)

Lightning Talk 3 (15:10 - 15:30)

Tea Break and Stall Visit (15:30 - 15:45)

Paper Presentation Session 1 (15:45 - 16:45)
Theme: PKI and PQC

Invited Talk 2 (16:45 - 17:15)

Invited Talk 3 (17:15 - 17:45)

Visit to Exhibition Stall (17:45 - 18:30)