CV
Contact Information
Full Name
Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree
Professional Title
Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw
Affiliation
Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
Email
Location
Warsaw, Poland
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, working on public-key cryptography, quantum cryptography, incompressible cryptography, and related areas of theoretical cryptography.
Experience
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Oct 2026
– presentAssistant ProfessorInstitute of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw -
Dec 2024
– Sep 2026 -
Apr 2023
– Nov 2024
Education
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2016 - 2023PhD & MTechIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Advisor: Prof. Manindra Agrawal
- PhD Thesis: Analysis of Symmetric-Key Cryptosystems and Subset-Sum Problem
- MTech Thesis: New Results and Proofs in Lattice Theory
- CPI: 10/10
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2012 - 2016BTechNational Institute of Technology Calicut
- Advisor: Dr. Sumesh T.A.
- BTech Thesis: Firewall for Preventing Anonymous Proxy Usage
- CPI: 8.89/10
Awards
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2025
- Outstanding Paper Award at TCC 2025
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2023
- Best Student Presentation Award at CALDAM 2023
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2022
- Best Student Presentation Award at CALDAM 2022
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2018
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2017
- Awarded Academic Excellence at IIT Kanpur
Professional Activities
- Co-organizer with Prof. Venkata Koppula of Recent Trends in Cryptography, FSTTCS 2026 workshop, IIT Delhi, scheduled for 19–20 December 2026.
- PhD defence committee member for Renas Bacho, Saarland University, 19 March 2026.
- Reviewed papers for INDOCRYPT 2021, MFCS 2023, FSTTCS 2023, Journal of Cryptology, EUROCRYPT 2023, ASIACRYPT 2024, ITCS 2025, EUROCRYPT 2025, PKC 2025, ICALP 2025, CRYPTO 2025, STOC 2026, ICALP 2026, TCC 2026, ASIACRYPT 2026.
- Part of the Indian team for the Australia–India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP). The IIT Kanpur–University of Wollongong collaboration studies privacy-enhancing cryptography and cloud-computing standardization.
Earlier Research Visits
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Sep 2022Research visitInstitute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
- Host: Prof. Krzysztof Pietrzak
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2018–2019Visiting scholarMicrosoft Research India
- June and October 2018; March and September 2019. Host: Satya Lokam.
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Oct 2017Visiting scholarNew York University Abu Dhabi
- Host: Prof. Hoda AlKhzaimi
Volunteer Work
- Delivered a lecture in the Continuing Education Programme for employees at the Centre for Railway Information Systems, IIT Delhi, 2024.
- Delivered a lecture in the STEM Mentorship Program for High School Girl Students, IIT Delhi, 2023.
- Volunteer at Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2017.
- Volunteer at Cybersecurity Awareness Week CSAW 2017.
- Head Coordinator of Special Interest Group on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science SIGTACS at IIT Kanpur.
Languages
- English
- Malayalam
- Hindi
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Interests
- Playing piano
- Wall climbing
- Photography