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I am a faculty member at Cyberspace Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, since 2015. I have been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor since May 2024.
I did my Ph.D. at Aalto University in Finland under the supervision of Prof. Kaisa Nyberg. My dissertation can be found here. My work was funded by the Helsinki Doctoral Programme in Computer Science – Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems (HECSE) and partially by the European Commission through the ICT program ECRYPT II.
In summer 2016 and 2017, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), as part of the Cyber Security group which I worked with Prof. Christian Rechberger.
Research:
• Publication of several papers in the journals and conferences of the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR). The full list of articles can be found in Google Scholar and dblp.
• Membership in the editorial board of the journal IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology (the program committee of the FSE conference) in the years 2018 to 2022 and also in 2024.
• Founder of “Security Evaluation of Implemented Cryptographic Algorithms Laboratory” at Shahid Beheshti University.
Teaching:
• Since 2015, I have been teaching “Advanced Cryptography” and “Cryptography” courses to master’s students (electrical engineering). The complete list of my courses can be seen on this page.
• The videos and slides of “Advanced Cryptography” course are available here..
• The videos and slides of “Cryptography” course are available here.
Services to Iranian Society for Cryptology:
• Executive Board of the Iranian Society for Cryptology (2020-2024).
• Co-founded of ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology (2024, 2023, 2021).
• Coordinator for webinar series by ISC (2021-).
• I maintain the ISC video channel in Aparat.
• October 2024: I am honored to have been elected to the executive board of the Iranian Society for Cryptology for two years (2024-2026).
• June 2024: Our paper “An efficient hardware accelerator for NTT-based polynomial multiplication using FPGA” is published in Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. This is a joint work with Raziyeh Salarifard. (Access Link)
• February 2024: Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2025 Program Committee/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC) Editorial Board Member.
• February 2024: Forth ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology was held virtually between February 28th and Febraury 29th, 2024 (I was a member of organizing committee).
• January 2024: The extended version of our paper “Breaking KASLR on Mobile Devices without Any Use of Cache Memory” is published in Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. This is a joint work with Milad Seddigh, Mahdi Esfahani, Sarani Bhattacharya, Mohammad Reza Aref. (Access Link)
• October 2023: It is a great honor for me to be invited to the Prof. Emerita Kaisa Nyberg fest and to present a talk at Aalto University, Finland. The slide is available here.
• October 2023: Our paper “Linked Fault Analysis” is published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. This is a joint work with Ali Asghar Beigizad, Sara Zarei, and Hamed Ramzanipour. (Access Link).