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Contact Details:

Amit D. Lakhani
Information Security Group,
Room 355, McCrea Building,
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey
UK
TW20 0EX

Phone: +44 1784 414221
Fax: +44 1784 430766
Email: Amit.Lakhani@rhul.ac.uk

Biography:

Much of my life has been a constant study activity. I got my Bachelor's in Engineering in Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Bhavnagar university in India. Having an inclination towards software and computing, I started a small software firm developing tailor-made software for local fisheries and consumable stores. I moved forward to pursue my Masters in Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey in USA. I worked for United Parcel Service (UPS) at their Paramus office for a while in Scanning Apps department. I developed pretty good software in there and did a lot of systems analysis and networking. Further research led me to pursue a thorough degree in Information Security here at Royal Holloway, University of London. From then on, I am pursuing my present PhD here under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth G. Paterson. I am also tutoring in the distance learning course for MSc in Information Security for University of London.

Publications:

• S.Balfe, A. D. Lakhani, K. G. Paterson. Trusted Computing: Providing Security for Peer-to-Peer Networks, in Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'05), Konstanz, Germany, August 2005, to appear. (email me for a copy)
• A. D. Lakhani. Deception techniques using Honeypots. MSc Thesis, Guided by Prof. Kenneth G. Paterson, ISG, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003.
• A. D. Lakhani. Wireless Application Protocol(WAP) and I-mode: an insight, Technical paper, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 2001.
• A. D. Lakhani. Thread-level Data Speculation, Technical paper, Stevens Institute of Technology, December 2000.
• E. Yang, B. Matthews, A. Lakhani, Y. Jégou, C. Morin, O. Sanchez, C. Franke, P. Robinson, A. Hohl, B. Scheuermann, D. Vladusic, H. Yu, A. Qin, R. Lee, E. Focht, M. Coppola. Virtual Organization Management in XtreemOS: an Overview, CoreGrid Symposium, to appear August 2007.
• A. D. Lakhani, E. Y. Yang, B. Matthews, I. Johnson, S. Naqvi, G. C. Silaghi. Threat analysis and attacks on XtreemOS: A Grid-enabled Operating System, CoreGrid symposium, to appear August 2007.
• I. Johnson, A. Lakhani, B. Matthews, E. Yang, C. Morin. XtreemOS: Towards a Grid Operating System with Virtual Organisation Support, UK eScience All Hands Meeting to appear in September 2007.

Projects:

Digital Breadcrumbs / Honeytokens:

Security Flaw due to remote login in Windows XP (Home):

This was a term paper prepared during my MEngg at Stevens and had a helpful hand from Dr. Edward Amoroso, module leader and Chief Security Officer at AT&T, New Jersey. The basic idea was to give an insight into the working of IPSec as used by MS Windows XP(Home) in having the remote login feature and its weaknesses. The use of Kerberos 4 was also studied in this regard.

Microprocessor-based DAQ:

This was a final year project during my Bachelor's but is worth a mention because it was further enhanced with the advent of Wireless Networking technologies at Stevens Institute of Technology. The former project consisted of acquiring 16-channel input from various input signals, which could be temperature measurements, flow inputs etc. Further in 2001, I was given a task of implementing the same on Bluetooth devices by designing a DSP system for monitoring Bluetooth traffic between two or more devices. The project is still on-going at Stevens under supervision of Dr. Sussane Wetzel in the Computer Science department.

Light-sensitive Robot:

This was during my teaching assistantship job in Engineering Design Lab at Stevens where i was involved in assisting of a light-sensitive robot design project headed by Professor Edward Blicharz. My input to the project was much of programming of the robot using a manufacturer-defined language called PBasic. A Media broadcast of the final event was also made on UPN9- the local cable channel in New Jersey.

Teaching:

Being in a teacher-preacher family has its own rewards. My mum and dad have both been teachers for a good part of their life and i guess us siblings have got the flare of it as well now. I started my teaching as being a teaching assistant to Prof. Ed Blicharz in the Engineering design lab at Stevens. I was involved in E101 which was the freshmen design lab course where they built various projects including the light-sensistive robot project mentioned earlier.

Currently, I am e-tutoring the distance learning version of the on-campus IC2 - Introduction to Cryptography and Security Mechanisms and IC4 - Computer Security modules here at Royal Holloway, University of London.