Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan

shrichris@gmail.com
DOB: 25/12/1979

Research Interests

I have broad interests in the field of Information Security, especially in network security and cryptography

WORK EXPERIENCE

British Telecom, Adastral Park Research Centre, Ipswich, UK

Oct 2005-Dec2005

I was a research intern with the Information Security Research Centre at BT, investigating network resilience as part of a project for the Defense Technology Centre. I developed an abstract simulation for a multi-agent based packet routing protocol and this led to significant intellectual property for BT and a possible patent is being explored.

Education

Royal Holloway, University of London

PhD

Ongoing

I am funded by the Dorothy Hodgkin Scholarship.

MSc. Information Security, Distinction, 84.25%

Sep 2004- Sep 2005

I was funded by the British Chevening Scholarship Scheme of which I am the youngest recipient.

Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune, India

Diploma in Advanced Computing

Dec 2004-July2004

Vellore Institute of Technology, University of Madras

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Instrumentation, First Class

Aug 1999-Aug 2003

La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata

I.S.C (Equivalent to A – levels)
Obtained a Higher First Class – 86.17%

1996-1998

St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata

I.C.S.E (Equivalent to O – levels)
School Topper, 93.2%

1996

AWARDS

British Chevening Scholarships

2004-2005

Scholarship from the Sir Ratan Tata Trust

2004-2005

Westfocus ( Cambridge, MIT Entrepreneurship School) award.

2004-2005

Best Outgoing Student Award and Award for the best student in Humanities , St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, I.C.S.E

1996

As an ardent debater and quizzer I have won awards in National level public speaking and quizzing contests.

Extra Courses Attended RECENTLY

Insight Consulting: Applying BS7799 in the real world

Jun 2005

Westfocus Entrepreneurship Summer School

Jun 2005

Foundstone (McAfee) Web Hacking Course

Feb 2005

KPMG Hacker Boot camp

Jan 2005

PRESENTATIONS AT Technical Symposiums

Advanced encryption technologies - Public Key Encryption and its application to electronic mail”. Paper presented at Anna University, Chennai, 2001

Proposal for a key exchange protocol over the existing telephone system, without trusted third party mediation and employing Merkle’s Puzzle”. Paper presented at the Vellore Institute of Technology, 2002

COMPUTING KNOWLEDGE

Systems: Linux, Microsoft
Programming Languages: Java, LabVIEW
I have a working knowledge of SQL and packages like Oracle and MySQL, Enterprise Java, Web Services and the underlying technologies.

IndoSec is an Internet forum (www.indosec.org) that I set up for the discussion of Information Security issues, with a stress on India. At a purely technical level, the site runs on purely open source components; an Apache2 server with a PHP engine, Drupal as the content management system and a MySQL database.

LANGUAGES

Bengali , English and Hindi - Advanced level of competence
Tamil - Proficient in speech
French - C.F.E (certificate in elementary French) from the Alliance Francaise

MEMBERSHIPS

Associate of (ISC)^2 (CISSP)
Mensa International.

COMMUNITY WORK

As a volunteer at M.B.K.G Pannai, a home for orphaned children and destitute women in India, my friends and I coordinated activities such as fund raising, organizing visits of students from my college, play sessions for the younger children and academic sessions for the older ones. I was involved with the project deeply for three years.

I was a Sunday volunteer at the OXFAM bookstore in Ipswich, UK.

HOBBIES

Currently, reading and digital photography occupy most of my spare time. I like to travel, taking photographs of my journeys. I occasionally like to go indoor rock climbing.