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Mr. M. Sethuraman
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Education | Professional
experience | Additional
professional activities | Papers published
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Mailing
Address
Scientist, KBCRF Pvt. Ltd.,
Adjunct Faculty, Anna University
AU-KBC Research Centre,
MIT Campus, Chromepet,
Chennai - 600 044
Phone
: +91 44 2223 4885
E-mail : msr@au-kbc.org
Education
June 1985, Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur)
M.Tech
(EE, Communications)
1969, Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) B.Tech (Electronics)
Awarded Bronze medal for academic distinction
1966, HH The Rajah’s College, University of Madras
(Pudukkotai)
B.Sc.
(Major: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
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Professional
experience
2002 Onwards AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, Tamilnadu
Working as scientist of KBCRF Pvt. Ltd. At AU-KBC Research
Centre. Researched and found a solution for WLAN WEP Security
weakness. Development of WEBGUARD to protect against web
defacing is in proof of concept stage. An in-house ePKI
product and enhancements have been carried out. Investigation
on Timing & Power analysis attack on Public Key Crypto
was carried out. Consultancy & training of corporate
clients on Security aspects of WLAN systems is an ongoing
activity. Development of ‘iSecureIT’ with
BMS was completed.
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1991 – 2001 BEL / CRL Bangalore, Karnataka
Position held when leaving: AGM, D&E Communications
1991 – 1996 served at Central Research Laboratories
of Bharat Electronics Ltd. As “Member, Research
Staff”, “Member, Senior Research Staff”
and “Fellow”. During this period, led a
team on design and development of Communications and
Cryptographic equipment. Team on cryptography was built
from scratch and a number of crypto-algorithms and equipment
were designed including finite field based Public Key
Infrastructures and subsequently served as “AGM,
D&E Communications” at Bharat Electronics
Ltd., Jalahalli. Here, a number of design groups on
military switching and communications, broadcast and
core design groups on DSP, Crypto, RF Design, Power
Amplifiers, Power Supply and software development were
supervised.
Technology Contributions:
Extensive design and development of
Crypto products and algorithms ranging from Analog Voice
Scramblers to high speed Digital Link Encryptors. A
number of Public Key and Private Key schemes were designed
and developed.
Worked on the enhancement of the quality
of the CVSD based voice coder, which solved the dynamic
range problem of the coder.
DSP based design of frequency hopping
VHF/UHF radio design involving design of systems and
algorithms.
Hot standby switching system for army
was completed.
Awards:
Department of Science and Technology
(DST) award for design of Encryptor for Satellite Communication
for Air Force.
Department of Science and Technology
(DST) award for successful absorption of technology
for Automatic Electronic Switch.
Professional Training:
Finance Management for “non-finance
people” at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
for a duration of one week.
R&D Systems and Management at
Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad.
Technology Management at Administrative
Staff College, Hyderabad followed by a week’s
training at India Development Centre, Manchester Business
School, Manchester, United Kingdom.
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1990 – 1991 TVS Electronics Bangalore, Karnataka
Position held: Manager, Design and Development
Led Cartridge Tape Drive development
team. Completed development of software for quarter
inch cartridge (QIC40) error correction coding and decoding.
1969 – 1989 LRDE (DRDO) Bangalore, Karnataka
Position held when leaving: Scientist ‘D’
Design and development of digital
communications, digital switching and cryptographic
equipment.
Completed design of Analog Voice Scramblers,
Frequency and Time domain and Digital Crypto for Voice.
Design, development and production
of secure electronic telephone exchange and digital
subscriber unit with built-in digital crypto.
Design of target data distribution
for radar applications.
Awards
Award during Republic Day at LRDE
for successful completion of Voice Scrambler, KARMA
and RAJHANS.
Award for successful completion of
Secure Electronic Telephone Exchange (SET) with digital
encryption terminals.
Award for design contribution for
“offline synchronization technique”.
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Additional professional activities
Served as a member of DATE (Decision Aid
for Technology Evaluation) committee of DRDO on communications.
Served as a member of LTD-38 panel on
network security and cryptography of BIS, as a part of which
the evaluation and recommendations on SMARS (SMArt Rupee
System) of IIT, Bombay was carried out.
Conducted a two-day workshop on Error
Control Coding Techniques at LRDE, Bangalore.
Delivered a lecture on Network Security,
Digital Signatures and Hash Functions at a workshop on e-Security
organized by Centre for Professional Development Education
(CPDE), Anna University.
Delivered a lecture on Network Security
at a workshop on Cryptography and Data Security organized
by AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT, Chromepet.
Delivered a lecture on Encryption Technologies
at Police Training Institute, Ashok Nagar, Chennai at a
seminar on cyber-crimes.
Delivered a lecture on Encryption Technologies
at KSR Institute of Technology, Tiruchengodu.
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Papers published / presented
“Concatenated Error Control Scheme”
at Embedded and Microprocessor Systems Conference at ITI,
Bangalore.
“ISDN Communications” at CONSEG
seminar, Bangalore.
“Cryptographic Protocols”
at Computer Society Conference on Security at Bangalore.
“ Performance Analysis of Dictionary
Based Data Compression Algorithms for High Speed Networks”,
S.Subathra, M.Sethuraman & Vinosh Babu James. Presented
at IEEE Indicon 2005 Conference,Chennai,11-13 Dec 2005
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