C. Pandu Rangan is a senior professor in the department of computer science and engineering, IIT, Madras, India, where he has been working since 1982. Rangan has published over 200 papers in various reputed journals and conferences. His areas of interest are algorithms and cryptology. C. Pandu Rangan serves on the editorial board of LNCS, a lecture notes series published by Springer Verlag, Germany. He has handled collaborative projects with international partners under Indo-German, Indo-French, and Indo-Israel grants. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers.