Gargi Mitra

About Me

I am pursuing research work as an Interdisciplinary Direct PhD scholar in Indian Institute of Technology Madras. I work with Prof. V Kamakoti from Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Dr. Nitin Chandrachoodan from Department of Electrical Engineering.

My research interests include 'Network Security & Privacy' and 'Secure Internet Architecture'. I am also interested in emerging technologies in this domain and have worked on developing secure network solutions based on the Blockchain platform.

What I Do

Research

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Teaching Assistantship

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Student PC Membership

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My Hobbies

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Curriculum Vitae

Education
IIT Madras
2015 - Present
Position: PhD Research Scholar
Specialization: Network Security & Privacy
St.Thomas' College of Engg. & Tech.
2009 - 2013
Degree: Bachelor of Technology
Specialization: Computer Science & Engineering
Affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology (presently, Maulaka Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology) and approved by AICTE
Bidya Bharati Girls' High School, Kolkata
1996 - 2009
Specialization: Science
Affiliated to West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

Working Experience
Cognizant Technology Solutions
2013 - 2015
Designation: Programmer Analyst
Specialization: Data Warehouse Management and Business Intelligence

Positions of Responsibility at IITM
Teaching Assistantship

1. CAD for VLSI: Sep 2020 - Present, Jul 2019 - Nov 2019, Jul 2018 - Nov 2018

2. Digital System Testing: Jan 2020 - May 2020, Jan 2019 - May 2019

3. Intro to Computer Programming: Jul 2019 - Nov 2019, Jul 2018 - Nov 2018, Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

4. IDRP Research Commitee: Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

5. Digital Design Verification: Jan 2017 - May 2017

6. Computer Organization: Jan 2016 - May 2016

Technical Skills
Programming Languages

Python, Java, C, C++, Linux Shell Scripting, PL/SQL, Solidity, T-SQL
Operating Systems

Linux, Windows XP/7/10
Blockchain Technologies

Ethereum, IBM Hyperledger Fabric
Hardware Description Language

Verilog
High Level Chip Synthesis Tool

Bluespec
Database Platforms

Oracle 10g/11.2, MS SQL Server 2008/2012
Tools/IDE

Git, LATEX, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services 2010/2012, IBM Infosphere Datastage 8.5,SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Developer for Oracle, NetBeans

Courses Taken at IITM
Applied Cryptography
Advanced Computer Networks
Digital IC Design
Digital System Testing & Testable Design
Logic and Combinatorics in CS
Computer Architecture
CAD for VLSI systems
Digital Design Verification
Introduction to Research
Special Topics in CS

Publications and Posters
Depending on HTTP/2 for Privacy? Good Luck!
Gargi Mitra, Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Patanjali SLPSK, Nitin Chandrachoodan, Kamakoti V
DSN 2020
White Mirror:

Leaking Sensitive Information from Interactive Netflix Movies using Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Gargi Mitra, Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Patanjali SLPSK, Nitin Chandrachoodan, Kamakoti V
SIGCOMM 2019 Poster Session
Towards Measuring Quality of Service in Untrusted Multi-Vendor Service Function Chains:

Balancing Security and Resource Consumption
Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Gargi Mitra, Vignesh Manoharan, Chester Rebeiro, Byrav Ramamurthy,and Kamakoti Veezhinathan
INFOCOM 2019
ApproxBC:

Blockchain Design Alternatives for Approximation-Tolerant Resource-Constrained Applications
Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Gargi Mitra, Chester Rebeiro, Byrav Ramamurthy, and Kamakoti Veezhinathan
IEEE Communications StandardsMagazine 2018
Hastakshara:

A Passive Side Channel Based Webpage Fingerprinting Attack for Uncovering Client Intent
Gargi Mitra,Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Kamakoti Veezhinathan, Nitin Chandrachoodan
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC’17),Poster Session, London, United Kingdom, 2017 (Poster presentation)
Samata:

A Framework for identifying Net-Neutrality Violations using Evidence Structures
Prasanna Karthik Vairam,Karan Saxena, Gargi Mitra, Chester Rebeiro, Kamakoti Veezhinathan
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC’17),Poster Session, London, United Kingdom, 2017 (Poster presentation)
Blockchain as an Infrastructure to Build Secure Network Services
Gargi Mitra, Kamakoti Veezhinathan, Nitin Chandrachoodan
PhD Conclave, ISEA Asia Security and Privacy Conference 2017

Other Research Projects
Analyzing Leakage of Browsing Information from Mass-scale Encrypted Browsing Traffic
Ongoing
Ankapala: The Account Book for Fighting Corruption in Food Security
A Blockchain-based solution for handling corruption in the public distribution system in India
Kernel Level Implementation of SCION
Collaborative Research Project
Eradicator: An Integrated Approach for Defense against Cyber Attacks in Industrial Control Systems
Research Project as part of Cyber Security Awareness Week 2017, November 2017

Student PC Membership
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019
ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2018

Awards & Recognitions
Selected as one of the top 5 contestants of the blog writing competition at Maitryee 2020,

IBM Research-India's annual women outreach event
Awarded for being among the top100 contestants in a national scientific story-writing competition

organized by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, as part of the AWSAR

initiative,in 2019
First prize in Gandhi Hazare Award 2018 for proposing technical solutions

for fighting corruption in the public distribution system in the country, in 2018
Second prize at TCS Poster Competition, Shaastra 2018, IIT Madras for presenting Ankapala
Star TA Awards from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras

for contributions towards TA duty for the Aug-Nov 2017 semester and Aug-Nov 2020 semester
First prize at Embedded Security Challenge, Cyber Security Awareness Week 2017,

organized by IIT Kanpur, as amember of the IITM team, for presenting ‘Eradicator:

An Integrated Approach for Defense against Cyber Attacks in PLC basedIndustrial Control Systems’
“Employee of the Quarter” Award from Cognizant Technology Solutions in the first quarter of 2015

Contact Information

Address: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras, Adyar, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail: gargim at cse dot iitm dot ac dot in
Phone: +91 four four two two five seven five three nine zero

About Me

What I Do

Curriculum Vitae

Education

IIT Madras

St.Thomas' College of Engg. & Tech.

Bidya Bharati Girls' High School, Kolkata

Working Experience

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Positions of Responsibility at IITM

Teaching Assistantship

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Operating Systems

Blockchain Technologies

Hardware Description Language

High Level Chip Synthesis Tool

Database Platforms

Tools/IDE

Courses Taken at IITM

Applied Cryptography

Advanced Computer Networks

Digital IC Design

Digital System Testing & Testable Design

Logic and Combinatorics in CS

Computer Architecture

CAD for VLSI systems

Digital Design Verification

Introduction to Research

Special Topics in CS

Publications and Posters

Depending on HTTP/2 for Privacy? Good Luck!

White Mirror: Leaking Sensitive Information from Interactive Netflix Movies using Encrypted Traffic Analysis

Towards Measuring Quality of Service in Untrusted Multi-Vendor Service Function Chains: Balancing Security and Resource Consumption

ApproxBC: Blockchain Design Alternatives for Approximation-Tolerant Resource-Constrained Applications

Hastakshara: A Passive Side Channel Based Webpage Fingerprinting Attack for Uncovering Client Intent

Samata: A Framework for identifying Net-Neutrality Violations using Evidence Structures

Blockchain as an Infrastructure to Build Secure Network Services

Other Research Projects

Analyzing Leakage of Browsing Information from Mass-scale Encrypted Browsing Traffic

Ankapala: The Account Book for Fighting Corruption in Food Security

Kernel Level Implementation of SCION

Eradicator: An Integrated Approach for Defense against Cyber Attacks in Industrial Control Systems

Student PC Membership

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2018

Awards & Recognitions

Selected as one of the top 5 contestants of the blog writing competition at Maitryee 2020, IBM Research-India's annual women outreach event

Awarded for being among the top100 contestants in a national scientific story-writing competition organized by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, as part of the AWSAR initiative,in 2019

First prize in Gandhi Hazare Award 2018 for proposing technical solutions for fighting corruption in the public distribution system in the country, in 2018

Second prize at TCS Poster Competition, Shaastra 2018, IIT Madras for presenting Ankapala

Star TA Awards from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras for contributions towards TA duty for the Aug-Nov 2017 semester and Aug-Nov 2020 semester

First prize at Embedded Security Challenge, Cyber Security Awareness Week 2017, organized by IIT Kanpur, as amember of the IITM team, for presenting ‘Eradicator: An Integrated Approach for Defense against Cyber Attacks in PLC basedIndustrial Control Systems’

“Employee of the Quarter” Award from Cognizant Technology Solutions in the first quarter of 2015

Contact Information

White Mirror:

Leaking Sensitive Information from Interactive Netflix Movies using Encrypted Traffic Analysis

Towards Measuring Quality of Service in Untrusted Multi-Vendor Service Function Chains:

Balancing Security and Resource Consumption

ApproxBC:

Blockchain Design Alternatives for Approximation-Tolerant Resource-Constrained Applications

Hastakshara:

A Passive Side Channel Based Webpage Fingerprinting Attack for Uncovering Client Intent

Samata:

A Framework for identifying Net-Neutrality Violations using Evidence Structures

Selected as one of the top 5 contestants of the blog writing competition at Maitryee 2020,

IBM Research-India's annual women outreach event

Awarded for being among the top100 contestants in a national scientific story-writing competition

organized by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, as part of the AWSAR

initiative,in 2019

First prize in Gandhi Hazare Award 2018 for proposing technical solutions

for fighting corruption in the public distribution system in the country, in 2018

Star TA Awards from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras

for contributions towards TA duty for the Aug-Nov 2017 semester and Aug-Nov 2020 semester

First prize at Embedded Security Challenge, Cyber Security Awareness Week 2017,

organized by IIT Kanpur, as amember of the IITM team, for presenting ‘Eradicator:

An Integrated Approach for Defense against Cyber Attacks in PLC basedIndustrial Control Systems’