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Praveensankar Manimaran

I am a PhD Research Fellow working on Blockchain and Privacy in the ND research Group at the University of Oslo, Norway. My PhD work will mainly focus on Decentralized Identity Management System using Graph based Blockchain. I have completed M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Puducherry, India and BE in Computer Science and Engineering at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. I have research experience in Blockchain, Named Data Networking and Lattice Cryptography. My research interests are in Blockchain, Distributed Computing, Decentralized Identity and Applied Cryptography

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email : praveensankar1995@gmail.com

Education Details

PhD - Blockchain and Privacy

University of Oslo, Norway. (October 2020 - Present)

Supervisor: Roman Vitenberg (Homepage)

Co-supervisor: Leander Jehl (Homepage)

M.Tech. - Computer Science and Engineering

National Institute of Technology Puducherry, karaikal, India. (July 2018 - June 2020)

CGPA - 9.82 / 10 (gold medal)

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. (July 2012 - May 2016)

CGPA- 7.69 / 10

Work Experience

PhD Research Fellow

University of Oslo, Norway (October 2020 - Present)

Wroking in Decentralized Identity Management based on blockchain with strong privacy guarantees
Project: SmartMed (Homepage)
Research Group: Networks and Distributed Systems(homepage)

Summer Research Intern

National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, India. (May 2019 - July 2019)

Studied about Software Defined Networking, mininet simulator, Named Data Networking and usage of NDN in VANET
Designed and developed Intrusion Detection System for NDN Based VANET

Software Engineer

Accolite Software India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. (July 2016 - March 2017)

Worked on the web development
Language - C#, Javascript, Web framework - ASP.NET MVC, backend technology - ASP.NET, frontend technology - Jquery and AngularJS, database - Microsoft SQL Server
Worked on web development for British Telecommunications through Accolite

Software Engineer Intern

Accolite Software India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. (January 2016 - April 2016)

Worked on the web development
Language - C#, Javascript, Web framework - ASP.NET MVC, backend technology - ASP.NET, frontend technology - Jquery and AngularJS, database - Microsoft SQL Server
Learned about web development in general and studied ASP.NET and Basic javascript for developing websites
Studied about 3 Layer architecture in ASP.NET

Publications

Conference

NDNIDS

P. Manimaran and A. R. K. P, "NDNIDS: An Intrusion Detection System for NDN Based VANET," 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/VTC2020-Spring48590.2020.9129365.

NDNIDS : An Intrusion Detection System for NDN Based VANET

Bidder

P. Manimaran and R. Dhanalakshmi, "Blockchain-Based Smart Contract for E-Bidding System," 2019 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Communication and Computational Techniques (ICCT), Jaipur, India, 2019, pp. 55-59. doi: 10.1109/ICCT46177.2019.8969042

Blockchain Based Smart Contract for E-Bidding System

Book Chapter

Blockchain and IOT

Ravi, Chandrasekar and Praveensankar Manimaran. "Introduction of Blockchain and Usage of Blockchain in Internet of Things." Transforming Businesses With Bitcoin Mining and Blockchain Applications. IGI Global, 2020. 1-15. Web. 18 Oct. 2019. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-0186-3.ch001

Introduction to Blockchain and Usage of Blockchain in IOT

Projects

Android Application for alarm system

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. (June 2015 - October 2015)

In this application to stop the alarm, the user has to solve either a mathematical puzzle or a logical puzzle or count the number of objects in the image or click the given color in the grid of colors. These functionalities are provided along with traditional alarm functionalities

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Face Recognition system using Principal Component Analysis

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. (June 2014 - October 2014)

To detect and recognize an image from a predefined collection of images using the eigenface-based facial recognition

github link

other activities

Science Activities

Event manager - Pint Of Science (2021)

Helped the PoS-Oslo (link) team organize the PoS festival.

Teaching work

Teaching Assistant - CS609 Network Programming Lab

National Institute of Technology Puducherry, karaikal, India. (August 2019 - December 2019)

Teaching Assistant - CS102 Basics of Programming Lab

National Institute of Technology Puducherry, karaikal, India. (January 2019 - April 2019)

Skills

Programming Languages :  C, Python, SQL
Operating Systems :  Ubuntu, Windows
Frameworks :  Django

Achievements

Scored 96.03 Percentile in Computer Science, GATE 2018
Scored 98.02% in HSC exam, 2012
Scored Centum in Computer Science, HSC exam, 2012
Scored 97.80% in SSLC exam, 2010
Scored Centum in Maths and Science, SSLC exam, 2010