Dr. Janaka Alawatugoda

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Dr. Janaka Alawatugoda

Senior Lecturer

BIO

Current Affiliations: Previous Affiliations (selected):
  • NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2016 – 2017
  • Intern at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation, Japan, in 2015
  • Software Engineer at the Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS), Sri Lanka, in 2011 – 2012
Professional Memberships/Fellowships: Research Interests:
  • Cryptography
  • Complexity
  • Information Security

Research Group: Cryptography Research Laboratory Talks and Lectures: Youtube Channel

Education:

Janaka’s academic genealogy can be found on the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Awards and Honors: Teaching:
  • Programming Methodologies (CO222)
  • Software Construction (CO225)
  • Network and Web Application Design (CO324)
  • Computer and Network Security (CO325)
  • Software Engineering (CO328)
Administrative (selected):
    • Form and lead the Cryptography Research Laboratory (CRL) research group of the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya, since 2016.
    • Curriculum development for the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya (Cloud Computing, Computer Systems Security, Software Design and Development): Ongoing.
    • Curriculum development for the Faculty of Engineering, Rajarata Universit of Sri Lanka (Software Engineering, Computer and Network Security), 2017/2018.
    • Senior Student Counselor of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2021.
    • Session Chair/Co-Chair: ICIAfS 2016 (Sri Lanka), ICIIS 2019 (Sri Lanka).
    • Technical Program Committee: ICIAfS 2016 (Sri Lanka), ICIIS 2017 (Sri Lanka), Provsec 2017 (China), ICIIS 2019 (Sri Lanka), IEEE IAS GUCON 2021 (Malaysia), ICIIS 2021 (Sri Lanka).
    • Engineering Students’ Conference at Peradeniya (ESCaPe) Editor in 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021.
Research Grants:
  • Chebyshev Grant to participate in the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2022) in St. Petersburg, Russia (Grant No: ICM № 49808412).
  • 2021 UNESCO-TWAS Research Grant for Individual Scientists (Grant No: 21-021 RG/MATHS/AS_I-FR3240319461), 2021-2023. (Role: Principal Investigator)
  • 2019 National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship grant (Grant No: NRC 19-064), 2019-2022. (Role: Collaborator)
  • Tier 1 Internal Research Grant of Research Management Centre, Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia (Grant Code: H082), 2018-2020. (Role: External Researcher)
  • 2018 University Research Grants of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (Grant No: URG/2018/19/E), 2018-2019. (Role: Principal Investigator)
  • 2016 National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship grant (Grant No: NRC 16-020), 2016-2017. (Role: Principal Investigator)
Research projects supervised by Dr. Janaka Alawatugoda:
post quantum cryptographic schemes based on plain lattices
post quantum cryptographic schemes based on plain lattices
Undergraduate Research Projects
Identifying keywords in legal articles using ML techniques
Identifying keywords in legal articles using ML techniques
Undergraduate Research Projects
anonymous authentication
anonymous authentication
Undergraduate Research Projects
ipb
ipb
Undergraduate Research Projects

Please note that here only contain the 'Projects' which were submitted to the projects.ce.pdn.ac.lk as Final Year Research Projects. The actual list of projects supervised by Dr. Janaka Alawatugoda may be longer than this.

Research Interests:
  • Cryptography
  • Complexity
  • Information Security
Publications:
  • On power analysis attacks against hardware stream ciphers
    Rangana De Silva, Iranga Navaratna, Malitha Kumarasiri, Janaka Alawatugoda , Chuah Chai Wen
    International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2022
    doi: 10.1504/ijics.2022.121289
    [ Project ]
    #differential power analysis#correlation power analysis#simple power analysis#power analysis attack#stream cipher#Trivium#Grain#MICKEY
  • Standard model leakage-resilient authenticated key exchange using inner-product extractors
    Janaka Alawatugoda , Tatsuaki Okamoto
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2022
    doi: 10.1007/s10623-022-01028-0
    [ PDF (Preprint) ]
    #Leakage-resilient cryptography#Authenticated key exchange#eCK model#CAFL-eCK model#Standard model
  • Review on leakage resilient key exchange security models
    Clement Chan Zheng Wei, Chuah Chai Wen , Janaka Alawatugoda\
    International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security, 2019
    doi: 10.17762/ijcnis.v11i1.3790
    [ PDF ][ PDF (Preprint) ]
    #Leakage-resilient cryptography#Key exchange protocol#Security models#Leakage attacks#Side-channel attacks#Leakage resilience
  • On implementing a client-server setting to prevent the Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext (BREACH) attacks
    Isuru Sankalpa, Tharindu Dhanushka, Nadeesha Amarasinghe, Janaka Alawatugoda , Roshan Ragel
    2016 Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Symposium (MIES), 2016
    doi: 10.1109/MIES.2016.7780263
    #Dictionaries#Servers#Compression algorithms#Cryptography#Browsers#Encoding#Bandwidth
  • Leakage-resilient storage scheme for cryptographic applications
    Janaka Alawatugoda , Roshan Ragel , Danushka Eranga, Nalaka Jayanath, Chinthaka Somathilaka
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), 2016
    doi: 10.1109/ICIAFS.2016.7946548
    #Side-channel attacks#Protocols#Computational modeling#Timing#Encryption

Please note that here only contain the 'Publications' affiliated with the Department of Computer Engineering, which were submitted to the site. To see the full publication profile, visit the ResearchGate or Google Scholar profile.