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$ whoami

Co-Founder @ Avail

Ph.D. Dropout @ ISI Kolkata

$ echo "$RESEARCH_INTERESTS"

blockchains

interoperability

data availability

fairness

symmetric key encryption_

$ cat publications.txt

Cumulus: Blockchain-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Data Audit in Cloud [arxiv]

Prabal Banerjee, Nishant Nikam, Subhra Mazumdar, Sushmita Ruj

Accelerated Verifiable Fair Digital Exchange [arxiv]

Prabal Banerjee, Dushyant Behl, Palanivel Kodeswaran, Chaitanya Kumar, Sushmita Ruj, Sayandeep Sen, Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

Strategic Analysis of Griefing Attack in Lightning Network

Subhra Mazumdar, Prabal Banerjee, Abhinandan Sinha, Sushmita Ruj, Bimal Kumar Roy

Chrisimos: A useful Proof-of-Work for finding Minimal Dominating Set

Diptendu Chatterjee, Prabal Banerjee, Subhra Mazumdar

Content Distributed Over Secure Channels

Prabal Banerjee, Adarsh Saraf, Shreya Chakraborty, Chander Govindarajan

Blockchain Enabled Data Trading with User Consent

Prabal Banerjee, Amudhan Muthaiah, Sushmita Ruj

Reliable, Fair and Decentralized Marketplace for Content Sharing Using Blockchain

Prabal Banerjee, Chander Govindarajan, Praveen Jayachandran, Sushmita Ruj

Time is Money: Countering Griefing Attack in Lightning Network

Subhra Mazumdar, Prabal Banerjee, Sushmita Ruj

Blockchain Enabled Data Marketplace - Design and Challenges

Prabal Banerjee, Sushmita Ruj

An Inexpensive Wearable Android Accessory

Prabal Banerjee, Kaustav Basu, Proyag Pal

Modified Multi Way Feedback Encryption Standard (MWFES) Ver-I

Prabal Banerjee, Purnendu Mukherjee, Asoke Nath

Multi Way Feedback Encryption Standard (MWFES): Ver-I

Prabal Banerjee, Purnendu Mukherjee, Asoke Nath

Advanced Symmetric Key Cryptosystem using Bit and Byte Level Encryption Methods with Feedback

Prabal Banerjee, Asoke Nath

Bit and Byte Level Generalized Modified Vernam Cipher Method with Feedback

Prabal Banerjee, Asoke Nath

Bit Level Generalized Modified Vernam Cipher Method with Feedback

Prabal Banerjee, Asoke Nath

$ cat experience.txt

Co-Founder at Avail

Leading Research and Engineering

Lead Researcher at Polygon (previously Matic Network)

Worked on improving production PoS chain. Also designed, prototyped and led development of Avail. Contributed to scaling solutions like zkRollups.

Blockchain Researcher - Intern

Three month long Internship with Xoken Labs, 2018. Mentor: Nithin Mani

Decentralized P2P Digital Marketplace

Summer Internship 2018 with Blockchain Team, IBM Research - India. Mentor: Praveen Jayachandran

Verifiable and Auditable peer-to-peer exchange of off-blockchain digital assets

Summer Internship 2017 with Blockchain Team, IBM Research - India. Mentors: Sayandeep Sen and Palanivel Kodeswaran, Team Lead: Praveen Jayachandran

Towards Revenue Optimization in Retail Industry

Internship cum Masters Thesis at Oracle Global Retail Insights Program, Global Retail Data Science, Oracle. Team Lead and Thesis Supervisor: Venkatnarayanan Lakshminarayanan

Prediction of Code-Switching in Bilingual Code-Mixed Data

Summer Internship 2015 under Dr. Dipankar Das at Jadavpur University

Arduino-Android Notifier

Undergraduate Final Year Project. A Prototype for Low-cost Wearable Accessory for Android Smartphones

$ cat education.txt

PhD Student in Computer Science

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Research Advisor: Dr. Sushmita Ruj and Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy

Cryptology and Security Research Unit

Master of Science in Computer Science

Chennai Mathematical Institute

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science Honours)

St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (Autonomous)

University of Calcutta

$ cat contact.txt
email: mail (dot) <my first name> (at) gmail (dot) com
twitter: @prabalbanerjee
github: prabal-banerjee
linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/prabal-banerjee
gpg: prabal_pub_key.gpg
$ exit
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