Dr Sanjay Bhattacherjee has joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in the School of Computing. Sanjay has strong inter-disciplinary research interests around the theme of cyber security. He has been working on problems in cryptology, voting games and blockchains.<\/p>\n
Sanjay joins Kent from the University of East London, where he was a Lecturer in Computer Science and Informatics at the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE)<\/a>. Sanjay’s works have been published in venues like the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), IEEE Transactions on Computers, Design, Codes and Cryptography and Journal of Discrete Algorithms.<\/p>\n Previously, Sanjay has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the AriC team<\/a>, at ENS Lyon<\/a>, as a visiting scientist at the Turing Lab, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute<\/a> and as a visiting lecturer at the R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security<\/a>, Indian Statistical Institute.<\/p>\n Sanjay did his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Jadavpur University<\/a>, Kolkata. He did his Master of Technology and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.<\/p>\n He has worked in the software industry on message switching equipment for GSM mobile networks and on a software that is now part of the McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Databases<\/a>. More recently, he has provided consultancy services for secure full-stack design and development of a web-based information management system.<\/p>\n Sanjay said `I’m very excited to have joined the School of Computing at Kent. Our cyber security group here has a strong inter-disciplinary bend, which is in complete alignment with my interests. I hope to be able to learn from and work with the excellent group of academics here towards my goal to pursue the problems of technologies from a humanist perspective – being vigilant about popular usages and sensitive about public rights’.<\/p>\n Sanjay will be a member of the Cyber Security Research Group<\/a>, the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS)<\/a> and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict (SoCyETAL)<\/a>. He will be based at the Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"