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Education

• Ph.D. in Cryptography, COSIC, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (2020-2024)
• M.S. in Secure Telecommunication and Cryptography, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2015-2017)
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication), University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran (2010-2014)

Research Visits

I have had the chance to visit multiple research groups such as:

• Foundations of Cryptography Group, ETH Zurich, hosted by Prof. Dennis Hofheinz, 2024.
• Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), hosted by Prof. Sherman S. M. Chow, 2023.
• ZK-Lab, University of Edinburgh, hosted by Prof. Markulf Kohlweiss, 2023.
• Computer Science Institute, Charles University in Prague, hosted by Prof. Pavel Hubáček, 2019.

Skills

• Python
• Rust
• Solidity

Open Source Projects

• Unlinkable Policy-Compliant Signatures: Prototyping the PCS and several implementations for ul-PCS schemes. Link

• Groth-Sahai Proofs: An efficient implementation for the seminal work of Jens Groth and Amit Sahai. Link

• Nirvana Payment Python: A distributed implementation of an anonymous and reusable payment guarantee system. Link

• Cross-Domain Attribute-Based Access Control Encryption (CD-ABACE): Proof of concept for the cross-domain access control encryption scheme. Link

Awards and Achievements

• The best proposal for the Virtual design challenge for authentication and protecting Full Motion Video system, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2019. Link
• Ranked 46th in M.Sc. national university entrance exam in Communications branch among about 20,000 participants, 2015.
• Ranked 36th in Iranian National Olympiad in Electrical Engineering among all bachelor students of Electrical Engineering, 2014.

Publications

A more updated list of my publications can be found in my Google Scholar and DBLP accounts.

Services

• PC member: PrivCrypt 2025.
• I have served on the PETS-2025 AC-2024, CANS-2024, CRYPTO-2024, PKC-2024, IEEE TDSC-2024, LatinCrypt-2023, ACM CCS-2023, IEEE TDSC-2023, IEEE TIFS-2022, EC-2022, AC-2020, TCC-2019, and ISCISC-2018 as reviewer.

Past Events

• 2024-11-14 Cybersecurity Industry Day, Mechelen, Belgium. To give a talk in “Blockchain for all: beyond the currencies” breakout, Link to my slides.
• 2024-10-[7-9] Attended zkSummit 12 in Lisbon.
• 2024-09-[2-6] Attended Foundations and Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Edinburgh, UK.
• 2024-08-[5-9] Attended SBC’24, New York, US. Affiliated events: Starkware Summit and Bass.
• 2024-07-[15-20] Attended PETS’24 in Bristol.
• 2024-07-[8-11] Attended EthCC’24 in Brussels.
• 2024-07-[1-4] Attended COSIC Course in Leuven.
• 2024-06-[03-07] Visited ETH Zurich, hosted by Dennis Hofheinz.
• 2024-05-[24:30] Eurocrypt 2024 in Zurich.
• 2024-05-15 Successfully passed my private Defense.
• 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 2023 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.