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Saravanan Vijayakumaran
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Email: sarva@ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone: +91 22 2576 7498
Office: EE 122B (Opposite PC lab)

Research Interests

  • Applied Cryptography
  • Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  • Cryptocurrency Technologies

Education

  • PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2007
  • BTech, IIT Guwahati, 2001

Work Experience

  • 2017 - present, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  • May to June 2018, Visiting Researcher, NTU Singapore
  • 2009 - 2017, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  • 2007 - 2009, Software Development Engineer in Test, Microsoft, Redmond
  • 2006, Research Intern, EPFL

Awards

  • Professor S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award, 2023
  • Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay, 2017
  • Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, IIT Guwahati, 2001

Administrative Activities

  • Member of Undergraduate Programmes Committee (UGPC) (Mar 2024 - present)
  • Member of Institute Telecom Advisory Committee (Oct 2022 - present)
  • Member of DPC (Mar 2019 - Mar 2023)
  • Member of DPGC (Mar 2019 - Jan 2023)
  • Member of IoE committee on Data, Information Science, and Computing (Mar 2019 - 2020)
  • Faculty in-charge of PC lab of EE department (Feb 2010 - Dec 2016)

Papers

Preprints

  1. SV, "Nova Aadhaar: Privacy-Preserving Aadhaar-based Age Proofs Suitable for Resource-Constrained Environments", Feb 2025, [pdf]
  2. SV, T. F. Wong, T. M. Lok, "Capacity of the Degraded Half-Duplex Relay Channel," 2007, arxiv.org/abs/0708.2270

Journal Papers

  1. V. Thakore, SV, "MProve-Nova: A Privacy-Preserving Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero,", Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, vol. 2025, no. 2, 2025. [doi]
  2. A. Dutta, S. Bagad, SV, "MProve+: Privacy Enhancing Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 16, pp. 3900-3915, Jun. 2021. [doi]
  3. A. D. Yardi, SV, "Properties of syndrome distribution for blind reconstruction of cyclic codes," Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing 31, pp. 23-41, 2020. [doi]
  4. SV, "Largest Permutation Codes with the Kendall -Metric in and ," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1912-1915, Oct. 2016. [doi]
  5. A. D. Yardi, SV, A. Kumar, "Blind Reconstruction of Binary Cyclic Codes From Unsynchronized Bitstream," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 7, pp. 2693-2706, Jul. 2016. [doi]
  6. SV, D. Pal, "On the Minimum Redundancy of SEC-DAEC-TAEC Binary Linear Block Codes," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 652-656, Apr. 2016. [doi]
  7. SV, Y. Levinbook, T. F. Wong, "Maximum Likelihood Localization of a Diffusive Point Source using Binary Observations," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 665-676, Feb. 2007. [doi]
  8. S. Aedudodla, SV, T. F. Wong, "Ultra-wideband Signal Acquisition with Hybrid DS-TH Spreading," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 2504-2515, Sep. 2006. [doi]
  9. S. Aedudodla, SV, T. F. Wong, "Acquisition of Direct-Sequence Transmitted Reference Ultra-Wideband Signals," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 759-765, Apr. 2006. [doi]
  10. SV, T. F. Wong, "On Equal Gain Combining for Acquisition of Time-Hopping Ultra-Wideband Signals," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 479-490, Mar. 2006. [doi]
  11. SV, T. F. Wong, "A Search Strategy for Ultra-Wideband Signal Acquisition," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 2015-2019, Dec. 2005. [doi]
  12. SV, T. F. Wong, S. Aedudodla, "On the Asymptotic Performance of Threshold-based Acquisition Systems in Multipath Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 3973-3986, Nov. 2005. [doi]
  13. S. Aedudodla, SV, T. F. Wong, "Timing Acquisition in Ultra-wideband Communication Systems," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1570-1583, Sep. 2005. Invited paper. [doi]

Conference Papers

  1. SV, "Analysis of CryptoNote transaction graphs using the Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition," 5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2023), Sep. 2023. [doi] [code] [docs]
  2. S. Bagad, SV, "Performance Trade-offs in Design of MimbleWimble Proofs of Reserves," 2020 IEEE European Symposium of Security and Privacy Workshops, Sep. 2020. [preprint]
  3. S. Bagad, SV, "On the Confidentiality of Amounts in Grin," 2020 Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT), Rotkreuz, Switzerland, Jun. 2020. [preprint] [doi]
  4. A. Dutta, A. Jana, SV, "Nummatus: A Privacy Preserving Proof of Reserves Protocol for Quisquis," 20th International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2019), Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2019. [doi]
  5. A. Dutta, SV, "Revelio: A MimbleWimble Proof of Reserves Protocol," 2019 Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT), Zug, Switzerland, Jun. 2019. [preprint] [doi]
  6. A. Dutta, SV, "MProve: A Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero Exchanges," 2019 IEEE European Symposium of Security and Privacy Workshops, Stockholm, Sweden, Jun. 2019. [preprint] [doi]
  7. A. Dutta, SV, "Rewrite Cost optimal Rank Modulation Codes in and ," Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2018), Hyderabad, India, Feb. 2018. [doi]
  8. SV, "LFSR identification using Groebner bases," Twenty Second National Conference on Communications (NCC 2016), Guwahati, India, Mar. 2016. [doi]
  9. SV, "Identifying block codes using Groebner bases," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), London, UK, Jun. 2015. [doi]
  10. A. D. Yardi, A. Kumar, SV, "Channel-code detection by a third-party receiver via the likelihood ratio test," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2014), Honolulu, HI, Jun. 2014. [doi]
  11. A. D. Yardi, SV, A. Kumar, "Blind Reconstruction of Binary Cyclic Codes," 20th European Wireless Conference (EW 2014), Barcelona, Spain, May 2014. [xplore]
  12. A. Yardi, SV, "Detecting Linear Block Codes in Noise using the GLRT," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013), Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013. [doi]
  13. R. Merz, J.-Y. Le Boudec, SV, "Effect on Network Performance of Common versus Private Acquisition Sequences for Impulse Radio UWB Networks," IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2006), Sep. 2006. [doi]
  14. S. Aedudodla, SV, T. F. Wong, "Timing acquisition for transmitted reference DS-UWB signals," IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM '05), Atlantic City, NJ, Oct. 2005. [doi]
  15. SV, T. F. Wong, S. Aedudodla, "On the Asymptotic Performance of Threshold-based Acquisition Systems in Multipath Fading Channels," IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 2004. [doi]
  16. SV, T. F. Wong, "Best Permutation Search Strategy for Ultra-Wideband Acquisition," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Sep. 2004. [doi]
  17. SV, Y. Levinbook, T. F. Wong, "On Diffusive Source Localization using Dumb Sensors," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2004), Chicago, IL, June 2004. [doi]
  18. S. Aedudodla, SV, T. F. Wong, "Rapid ultra-wideband signal acquisition," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '04), Atlanta, GA, Mar. 2004. [doi]
  19. SV, T. F. Wong, "Equal Gain Combining for Acquisition of UWB Signals," IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM '03), Boston, MA, Oct. 2003. [doi]
  20. SV, P. K. Bora, D. Ghosh, "Oblivious Image-Adaptive Watermarking using Quantization Index Modulation," Eighth National Conference On Communications, (NCC 2002), India, Jan. 2002.

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