Manan Nayak

Room No. 179, Old Boys Hostel,
International Institute of Information Technology,
Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh, India - 500032

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I am a student at IIIT Hyderabad.
I am in 5th year of my Dual-Degree (B.Tech.(Hons) + M.S. by Research) Program.
Currently I am working in Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) under the guidance of Dr. K. Srinathan.

Academics

• I am interested in Complexity theory, Cryptography and Fault-tolerant Distributed Computing. I am also keen to explore other areas in Theoretical Computer Science.

• M.S. Thesis

  Secure Message Transmission in Directed Networks with Computational Routers (PDF will be up soon)
  
  Publication: Minimal Connectivity for Unconditionally Secure Message Transmission in Synchronous Directed Networks. Manan Nayak, Shashank Agrawal, Kannan Srinathan. In the 5th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS 2011). [Full Version on ePrint.]

• Independent Study

  I have also been studying topics in Complexity Theory under the guidance of Dr. Suresh Purini.
  Recently attended The 2011 School in Approximability at IISc Bangalore.

• Algorithmic Programming

  Secured 5th position in the ACM ICPC Amritapuri Regionals, 2011. Teamname: AntiThesis.
  TopCoder Handle: lucyfer

• I also like reading about Cognitive Science and Game Theory.

Nice Readings on the Internet

• A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
• You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
• Blogs: Scott Aaronson, R.J.Lipton, Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Outside Academia

I like reading, watching movies, listening to music and playing guitar in my free time.

Favourites

• Books
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
  • "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Papillon by Henri Charrière
  • The Rainmaker by John Grisham
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  • Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  
  
• Links: RSAnimate, Ted, PhdComics.
  
  
• Bands: Guns n Roses, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles
  
  
• TV Shows: F.R.I.E.N.D.S, The X Files and Sherlock
  
  

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