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Profile of Dr. Sanjay Burman

Sri Sanjay Burman was born in Calcutta in August 1961. He obtained his B.Sc. (Engineering) degree from Sambalpur University in 1985. He obtained his M.Tech in Signal Processing from IIT Kanpur in 1995. He is currently pursuing PhD in the area of re-configurable computing at IIT(Madras) Chennai.

Sri Sanjay Burman was posted to Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), the premier DRDO laboratory of Bangalore in 1986. Since then he has been working in the area of Defence Communication and is presently heading a group of scientists working on cryptography and allied subjects at Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Bangalore.

He has contributed to the design of a number of cryptographic devices which have been deployed in the field. He has won a number of Republic Day Awards. He was awarded the Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award for the year 1999. In 2004 he was given the ?Agni Award for Excellence in Self Reliance? for his contributions to the development of S-Band Mobile Satellite Service Terminal. The Lab Scientist of the Year Award by DRDO in 2006 and the ?DRDO Award for Performance Excellence? for his contributions to secure communications and for the successful development of an ECCM radio. Currently, he heads the Communication Security Group of CAIR where his group is designing a number of high grade encryptors for terrestrial and satellite links.

Sri Sanjay Burman is a founder member of the Cryptology Research Society of India. He has a number of publications to his credit in the areas of cryptography, security and re-configurable computing in national