Speakers

Dr Vishal Saraswat is a leader in the field of applied and practical cryptography and drives cybersecurity research and innovation and competence development and crypto services at Bosch Global Software Technologies. His expertise includes anonymity and privacy in communication protocols, confidential computing, searchable encryption, lightweight cryptography, post-quantum crypto and blockchain security. Dr Saraswat is a distinguished expert on the Board of Academics in the Department of Mathematics at MNNIT Allahabad in India, and an executive committee member of the Cryptology Research Council of India. He has served on the editorial boards of several security and cryptography journals. He earned his PhD in cryptography from the University of Minnesota and has served at several prestigious institutions, including the University of Minnesota, IIT Jammu, IIT Hyderabad, ISI Kolkata, University of Hyderabad and AIMSCS, Hyderabad. Dr Saraswat has led multiple funded projects, supervised several PhD, MTech and MSc students, filed multiple patents, published extensively in reputed international journals and conferences, and co-authored the book 'Introduction to Cryptography,' which makes cryptography more accessible for researchers. He has consulted and trained for various intelligence agencies, defense organizations, policymakers, academic institutions and industry organizations, and actively engages in raising cybersecurity awareness among the non-specialists through popular media contributions. In addition to his cybersecurity research, Dr Saraswat is passionate about planetary health and environmental preservation and is leading research on the ecological impact of emerging technologies and spearheading the Green Cybersecurity initiative at BGSW.