About


I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, working in the ComSec Lab under guidance of Prof. Guang Gong. Prior to Waterloo, I was a Visiting Scientist at the R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security, Indian Statistical Institute . I received my Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, advised by Prof. Kishan Chand Gupta.

Research Interests


Zero-Knowledge Proofs Post-Quantum Cryptography Lightweight Cryptography Design and Analysis of Diffusion Layer Coding Theory Finite Fields

Recent News


  • [April 2026] Journal: The paper On the Direct Construction of MDS and Near-MDS Matrices has been accepted for publication in Advances in Mathematics of Communications.
  • [September 2025] Journal: The paper On the Study of Semi-Involutory and Semi-Orthogonal Matrices has been accepted for publication in Finite Fields and Their Applications.
  • [June 2025] Conference: Accelerating Post-quantum Secure zkSNARKs by Optimizing Additive FFT accepted at SAC 2025.
  • [June 2025] Service: Program Committee member, IWSDA 2025.

Contact


  • Address E7 5448, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    University of Waterloo,
    Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • Email ssamanta@uwaterloo.ca