Nirjhar Roy
About Nirjhar Roy
Nirjhar Roy is a Software Engineer 3 at Fortanix, with a background in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur and the Institute Of Engineering and Management.
Company
Nirjhar Roy is currently employed at Fortanix, located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He has been working as a Software Engineer 3 since 2022. Prior to this, he held the position of Software Engineer 2 at the same company from 2020 to 2022.
Education and Expertise
Nirjhar Roy completed his Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, from 2018 to 2020. Before that, he achieved his Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute Of Engineering and Management, a degree he obtained from 2012 to 2016. His foundational education was completed at Calcutta Boys' School, where he studied Science with Computers from 1999 to 2012.
Background
Nirjhar Roy began his career as a Student Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he worked from 2019 to 2020. His early work focused on conducting research on secure demand paging schemes for enclave platforms like Keystone and Intel SGX. This research led to a publication at the WOOT'20 workshop at USENIX.
Achievements
Nirjhar Roy has contributed significantly to the development of EnclaveOS by implementing Linux-like system calls and system-level nodes. He has further enhanced EnclaveOS to support applications such as Tensorflow Model Benchmarking, Openvino, and Freeradius. Additionally, Nirjhar has engaged in collaboration with Intel to enable various AI-related applications. He has also implemented support for newer instruction sets like Intel AMX for upcoming Intel CPUs such as Sapphire Rapids. Notably, he achieved a percentile of 99.65 (AIR 377) in the GATE examination.
Research and Publications
During his tenure at IIT Kanpur, Nirjhar Roy focused on breaking state-of-the-art demand paging proposals and developing new attacks. His research on secure demand paging schemes for enclave platforms was presented at the WOOT'20 workshop at USENIX. This work demonstrated his capability in identifying vulnerabilities and innovating solutions in the field of computer security.