Kartick Kolachala

Researcher at the Cryptography Security and Privacy research lab at NMSU, specializing in secure blockchain-based applications. Currently focusing on developing secure routing protocols to facilitate cryptocurrency-based transactions. Six peer-reviewed publications as part of ongoing PhD program, with 40 citations in Google Scholar, and two more publications under review. Publications span multiple research directions, including routing protocols, rebalancing, money laundering, and smart grids. Passionate about contributing to the field of cybersecurity and combating cybercrime in the global payment ecosystem. Excited to leverage expertise in blockchain security and cryptography to support curent efforts in finance crime and fraud detection.

• Currently seeking training for CISSP : Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification

• Awarded outstanding graduate student leadership award by the graduate school of NMSU for 2022-2023
• Current vice president for the Computer Science Graduate Student Organization at NMSU.
• Served as a cultural secretary for Indian Student Association at NMSU for 2021-2022

Teaching assistant for Cryptography (CS 525), Computer Security (CS 513), Computer Networks - I (CS 504), and Game Design (CS 510). Responsibilities included grading assignments, holding office hours for doubt clarification, and designing exams.

Doctoral candidate in Computer Science, currently in my 4th year

Master's thesis work on "Guarding a Network With a Set of Dynamic and Distributed Guards"

• L. M. Subramanian, R. Vishwanathan and K. Kolachala, "Balance E. Sariboz, K. Kolachala, G. Panwar, R. Vishwanathan and S. Misra, "Off-chain Execution and Verification of Computationally Intensive Smart Contracts," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2021, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461142.
• Vishwanathan. 2021. SoK: Money Laundering in Cryptocurrencies. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3465481.3465774
• Vishwanathan. 2022. Private and Secure Smart Meter Billing. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM on Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3494107.3522775.
• Kartick Kolachala, Ecem Simsek, Mohammed Ababneh, and Roopa
• Mohammed Ababneh, Kartick Kolachala, and Roopa

My research interest lies in building secure blockchain-based applications. Specifically, I am interested in building secure routing protocols to facilitate cryptocurrency-based transactions. I currently have 4 peer-reviewed publications as a part of my PhD program, (that have garnered 23 citations in Google Scholar) with 2 more publications under review and 2 more publication-worthy ideas under development. My publications are spanned across multiple research directions such as routing protocols, rebalancing, money laundering, and smart grids.

• Data structures and algorithms (CS 469)
• Cryptography (CS 579)
• Computer Networks - II (CS 584)
• Advanced cryptography (CS 583)
• Mobile and wireless computing (CS 579)
• Programming languages (CS 471)

• Transfers and Bailouts in Credit Networks using Blockchains, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2020, 1-3, 10.1109/ICBC48266.2020.916944
• Off-chain Execution and Verification of Computationally Intensive Smart Contracts, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2021, 1-3, 10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461142
• SoK: Money Laundering in Cryptocurrencies, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 21), 2021, 1-10, 10.1145/3465481.3465774
• Private and Secure Smart Meter Billing, Proceedings of the 8th ACM on Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS '22), 2022, 15-25, 10.1145/3494107.3522775

• Kolachala, K., Simsek, E., Ababneh, M., & Vishwanathan, R. (2021, August). SoK: Money laundering in cryptocurrencies. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (pp. 1-10).
• Sariboz, Emrah, Kartick Kolachala, Gaurav Panwar, Roopa Vishwanathan, and Satyajayant Misra. "Off-chain execution and verification of computationally intensive smart contracts." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), pp. 1-3. IEEE, 2021.
• Kolachala, Kartick, Mohammed Ababneh, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "RACED: Routing in Payment Channel Networks Using Distributed Hash Tables." arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17668 (2023). Accepted to the ACM ASIA CCS Conference 2024
• Ababneh, Mohammed, Kolachala Kartick, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "Auroch: Auction based Multipath Routing for Payment Channel Networks." In ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS). ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS), 2024
• Ababneh, Mohammed, Kartick Kolachala, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "Private and Secure Smart Meter Billing." In Proceedings of the 8th ACM on Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, pp. 15-25. 2022.

• Ababneh, Mohammed, Kolachala Kartick, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "Auroch: Auction based Multipath Routing for Payment Channel Networks." In ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS). ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS), 2024. (acceptance rate: 19%)
• Kolachala, Kartick, Mohammed Ababneh, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "RACED: Routing in Payment Channel Networks Using Distributed Hash Tables." arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17668 (2023). (Accepted to the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS) 2024 ). (acceptance rate: 21%)
• Ababneh, Mohammed, Kartick Kolachala, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "Private and Secure Smart Meter Billing." In Proceedings of the 8th ACM on Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, pp. 15-25. 2022.
• Kolachala, Kartick, Ecem Simsek, Mohammed Ababneh, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "SoK: Money laundering in cryptocurrencies." In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-10. 2021. (acceptance rate: 20.34%)
• Sariboz, Emrah, Kartick Kolachala, Gaurav Panwar, Roopa Vishwanathan, and Satyajayant Misra. "Off-chain execution and verification of computationally intensive smart contracts." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), pp. 1-3. IEEE, 2021. (acceptance rate: 18%)
• Subramanian, Lalitha Muthu, Roopa Vishwanathan, and Kartick Kolachala. "Balance transfers and bailouts in credit networks using blockchains." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), pp. 1-3. IEEE, 2020.
• Kartick Kolachala, Mohammed Ababneh, and Roopa Vishwanathan. "TIP: Trampoline Payments In Payment Channel Networks." (In progress)
• , Mohammed Ababneh, Kartick Kolachala and Roopa Vishwanathan. "ULOCK: Using Linear Optimization For Congestion In Payment Channel NetworKs" (In progress)