Hi, As you might have already noticed I am Mainack, curently pursuing graduate studies at MPI-SWS under the supervision of Dr. Krishna Gummadi. I am broadly interested in large scale networked systems and always look forward to work on interesting problems. My current research focuses on OSNs and you can find more about it in the research subsection. During my M. Tech. I worked on cryptography, more specifically cryptanalysis of symmetric key ciphers. My research output from that phase can also be found in research subsection.

I am originally from Calcutta (now called Kolkata), a city in the eastern part of India. It is a culture-rich city with lots of diversities. After completing my dual degree curriculam from IIT Kharagpur, where I spent 5 wonder-years of my life, I re-located to MPI-SWS, Germany and I am simply loving this place. When not in lab you can mostly find me reading books or cooking or chatting or walking down the streets and enjoying the weather (in summer) or watching movies/plays and some (very rare) times painting or writing some thing just for fun.

I can be found in some social networking sites like facebook, linkedin or orkut. However the best way to reach me would be by e-mail. If you are interested in the work that I am doing or have any queries or just want to chat about anything, please feel free to drop me a mail.