Dr Tapan Rai

Qualifications

B.Sc. (Bombay, 1986), M.S. (Virginia Tech, 1988), PhD (Virginia Tech, 2004)

Information

Dr. Rai is a lecturer in Mathematics and has research interests in Cryptology, Computational Algebra and Representation Theory.

Prior to joining ECU, Dr. Rai was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA. Previously, he was a Professor of Mathematics and Coordinator of Mathematics and Applied Information Sciences at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, where he was involved in developing and implementing bachelor’s degree programs in Computer Networking and Software Systems. He has also held positions at Virginia Tech in the United States and at Narsee Monjee College in Bombay, India.

Publications

Conference Papers:

1. Rai, T. and S. Bulygin (2006). Securing Noncommutative Polly Cracker-type Cryptosystems against chosen-ciphertext attacks, Workshop on Groebner Bases and Cryptography,  Special Semester on Groebner Bases, RISC and RICAM, Linz, Austria.
2. Green, E. and Rai, T. (2004). A public-key cryptosystem, based on noncommutative Groebner bases, Cryptography 2004 (Polynomial-based Cryptography),  Melbourne.

Thesis:

Rai, T (2004). Infinite Groebner Bases and Noncommutative Polly Cracker Cryptosystems, PhD thesis, Virginia Tech, USA.

Personal Website

Contact Details

Campus: Joondalup
Room Number: 5.206
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5082
t.rai@ecu.edu.au