Mahdi Sedaghat

Mahdi Sedaghat

PhD student at COSIC, KU Leuven

About me

I am a last year PhD student at COSIC, KU Leuven under the supervision of Prof. Bart Preenel.

During my Ph.D., I have been mainly working on privacy-enhancing techniques in distributed systems, with a focus on their applications on Blockchain space. I have collaborated on multiple research papers and gained valuable experience working with global teams and leading companies. In summer 2023, I was a research intern at Mysten Labs, cryptography team.

These days, I am primarily focused on Accountable Threshold Signatures and transparent Zero-Knowledge proofs. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions or for collaboration opportunities.

News

  • 2024-06-04 Presented TSPS: Done and ongoing Projects at Foundations of Cryptography, ETH Zurich.
  • 2024-05-15 Successfully passed my private Defense.
  • 2024-05-01 The ul-PCS paper got accepted to PETS’24.

Upcoming Events

  • 2024-07-09 (17:00 CET) Public Defense. (If you are interested in joining, you can email me.) Location. Add to you Google Calender.
  • 2024-07-[8-11] To attend EthCC’24 in Brussels.
  • 2024-07-[15-20] To attend PETS’24 and present ul-PCS.

Past Events

  • 2024-06-[03-07] Visited ETH Zurich, hosted by Dennis Hofheinz.
  • 2024-05-[24:30] Eurocrypt 2024 in Zurich.
  • 2024-06-[03:07] Financial Crypto 2024 in Curacao.
  • 2023-12-[12:16] Visited CUHK, hosted by Sherman S. M. Chow in Hong Kong.
  • 2023-12-[04:08] Asiacrypt 2024 in Guangzhou.
  • 2023-10-[01:06] Mysten offsite in Paris.
  • 2023-04-[23:27] Eurocrypt 2023 in Lyon.
  • 2023-[02-26:04-01] Visited ZK Labs in Edinburgh, hosted by Markulf Kohlweiss.
  • 2022-09-[12-16] Crypt@b-it 2022, Bonn, Germany.
  • 2022-[05-30:06-03] Eurocrypt 2022, Trondheim, Norway.
  • 2022-04-[13:15] RWC 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 2021-10-[17:21] Eurocrypt 2021 in Zagreb.

Extra

How to pronounce my name: First name: MAH-dee (with the emphasis on the first syllable; “MAH” as in “ma” from “mama” and “dee” as in the letter “D”). Last name: Seh-dah-GHAHT (with the emphasis on the third syllable; “Seh” as in “set”, “dah” as in “dah” from “duh”, and “GHAHT” with a hard “G” like in “go” and “hat” but with a slightly more open “a” sound)