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I am an assistant professor at Cyberspace Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, since 2015. My major research interest is applied cryptography, focusing on cryptanalysis of symmetric key primitives and techniques to apply side-channel attacks on cryptographic algorithms.
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.
Current Research
My major research interest is applied cryptography, focusing on cryptanalysis of symmetric key primitives and techniques to apply side-channel and fault attacks on cryptographic algorithms.
Ph.D. Research
My primary research goal during my Ph.D. study was to develop cryptanalysis methods for determining the exact security level of some inventive and unconventional designs for lightweight block ciphers. My dissertation can be found here.
Postdoc Research
In my short postdocs, I evaluated the security of the novel block ciphers designed for specific applications like secure multi-party computation (MPC) or fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
• 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).
• June 2023: Our paper “Exploiting statistical effective fault attack in a blind setting” is published in IET Information Security. This is a joint work with Navid Vafaei, and Nasour Bagheri. (Access Link).