I am currently pursuing my Master's in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I am working under Dr. Arpita Patra and I am associated with the Cryptography and Information Security Lab. My broad research interest is Cryptography and I am working in Secure Computation. I have previous experience with cryptocurrencies, mainly Bitcoin. Currently my main focus is on Oblivious Transfer Extension and 2PC protocols, using Garbled Circuits. I have also been working with Dr. Ashish Choudhury in the area of Distributed Computing, more specifically the Consensus Problem for Directed Graphs. I spend my leisure in photography, gaming and watching movies.
Pratik Sarkar has been selected for funding from Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems for the project titled "Computing on private data in high-latency networks".