Current Position
Postdoctoral Researcher — COSIC, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (2024–present)
Research focus: cryptographic protocols, zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography, and privacy-preserving authentication.
Education
- Ph.D. in Cryptography — COSIC, KU 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, Iran (2010–2014)
Publications
A full and up-to-date list is available on Google Scholar and DBLP.
Awards & Achievements
- Best Proposal — Virtual Design Challenge for Authentication and Protecting Full Motion Video systems, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2019. Link
- Ranked 46th in the M.Sc. national university entrance exam (Communications), among ~20,000 participants, 2015.
- Ranked 36th in the Iranian National Olympiad in Electrical Engineering, among all B.S. students nationwide, 2014.
Services
Program Committee member: ACM CCS 2026, PrivCrypt 2025, ISC 2025
Reviewer: 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 · ISCISC 2018
Research Visits
- UNSW, Sydney — hosted by Prof. Sushmita Ruj, 2025
- Hanyang University, Seoul — hosted by Prof. Jae Hong Seo, 2025
- ETH Zurich, Foundations of Cryptography Group — hosted by Prof. Dennis Hofheinz, 2024
- 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
- Charles University in Prague — hosted by Prof. Pavel Hubáček, 2019
Open Source
- Unlinkable Policy-Compliant Signatures — Prototyping PCS and several ul-PCS implementations.
- Groth-Sahai Proofs — Efficient implementation of the seminal Groth–Sahai proof system.
- Nirvana Payment (Python) — Distributed implementation of an anonymous, reusable payment guarantee system.
- CD-ABACE — Proof of concept for cross-domain attribute-based access control encryption.
Programming
Python · Rust · Solidity · Move
Past Events
| 2026-07-02/03 | Talk at 4th TUM Blockchain & Cybersecurity Salon |
| 2026-05-07 | Talk at zkSummit, Rome, Italy |
| 2026-04-19/24 | Privacy-Preserving Authentication Dagstuhl Seminar, Germany |
| 2026-03-01/07 | Financial Crypto 2026 |
| 2026-01-30 | PQCSA Workshop, Brussels |
| 2025-09-11/12 | ENISA & PQCSA, Athens, Greece |
| 2025-05-24/06-21 | Research visit — Prof. Sushmita Ruj, UNSW, Sydney |
| 2025-05-18/23 | Research visit — Prof. Jae Hong Seo, Hanyang University, Seoul |
| 2025-05-02/09 | Eurocrypt 2025, Madrid, Spain |
| 2025-04-30/05-02 | Sui Basecamp, Dubai, UAE |
| 2025-04-28 | EthBelgium — presented zkApps, Leuven |
| 2025-03-25/28 | RWC 2025, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 2025-03-23/25 | zkProof 7, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 2025-03-17 | Presented zkLogin at o1labs seminar (online) |
| 2024-11-14 | Cybersecurity Industry Day, Mechelen — talk in "Blockchain for all" breakout. Slides |
| 2024-10-07/09 | zkSummit 12, Lisbon |
| 2024-09-02/06 | Foundations and Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Edinburgh |
| 2024-08-05/09 | SBC '24, New York — incl. Starkware Summit & Bass |
| 2024-07-15/20 | PETS 2024, Bristol |
| 2024-07-08/11 | EthCC 2024, Brussels |
| 2024-07-01/04 | COSIC Course, Leuven |
| 2024-06-03/07 | Research visit — Dennis Hofheinz, ETH Zurich |
| 2024-05-24/30 | Eurocrypt 2024, Zurich |
| 2024-05-15 | Successfully passed private PhD defense |
| 2023-12-12/16 | Research visit — Sherman S. M. Chow, CUHK, Hong Kong |
| 2023-12-04/08 | Asiacrypt 2023, Guangzhou |
| 2023-10-01/06 | Mysten offsite, Paris |
| 2023-04-23/27 | Eurocrypt 2023, Lyon |
| 2023-02-26/04-01 | Research visit — Markulf Kohlweiss, ZK Labs, Edinburgh |
| 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 |
| 2021-10-17/21 | Eurocrypt 2021, Zagreb |