Services to Iranian Society for Cryptology:
• Executive Board of the Iranian Society for Cryptology (2020-2024)
• General (Co-)Chair of Forth ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology (2024)
• General (Co-)Chair of Third ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology (2023)
• General (Co-)Chair of Second ISC Winter School on Information Security and Cryptology (2021)
• Coordinator for seminar series by ISC (2021-)
• I maintain the ISC video channel in Aparat
Program Committee and Editorial Board Memberships
• Fast Software Encryption 2025/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• Fast Software Encryption 2023/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• Fast Software Encryption 2022/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC) 2021, Isfahan, Iran
• Fast Software Encryption 2021/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC) 2020, Tehran, Iran
• Fast Software Encryption 2020, Athens, Greece/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC) 2019, Mashhad, Iran
• Fast Software Encryption 2019, Paris, France/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• Fast Software Encryption 2018, Bruges, Belgium/ IACR Transactions in Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC)
• International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC) 2016, Tehran, Iran
External and Sub-reviewer
• 2024: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, ISC International Journal of Information Security (ISeCure), Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
• 2023: IET Information Security, Journal of Supercomputing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Security and Communication Networks, ISC International Journal of Information Security (ISeCure), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
• 2022: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IET Information Security, ISC International Journal of Information Security (ISeCure), Security and Communication Networks, Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC) 2022, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• 2021: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS), IET Information Security, The Computer Journal, IEEE Access, ISC International Journal of Information Security (ISeCure), CT-RSA 2022
IET Information Security, The Computer Journal, IEEE Access
• 2020: COSADE 2020, ISC International Journal of Information Security (ISeCure),
IET Information Security, The Computer Journal, IEEE Access
• 2019: COSADE 2019, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS), ISC International Journal of Information Security (ISeCure), IET Information Security, IEEE Access, Science China Information Sciences
• 2018: Designs Codes and Cryptography, IET Information Security, IEEE Access, ISC International Journal of Information Security (
• 2017: Scientia Iranica (SCI), ISC International Journal of Information Security (
• 2015: EUROCRYPT 2015, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, IET Information Security, Designs Codes and Cryptography, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), The Computer Journal, ISC International Journal of Information Security (
• 2014: IET Information Security, ISPEC 2014, AFRICACRYPT 2014, SAC 2014, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Designs Codes and Cryptography.
• 2013: ACNS 2013, AFRICACRYPT 2013, SAC 2013, ASIACRYPT 2013
• 2012: IET Information Security, SAC 2012
Invited Talks
• Fall 2023: “Recent Developments in Fault Attacks on Symmetric Primitives”, Aalto Univserity, Finland (Prof. Nyberg Fest). The slide is available here.
• Fall 2019: “Novel techniques for cryptanalysis of ciphers with unconventional structures”, 4th International Conference I4C, Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran.
• Fall 2018: “Recent Developments in Cryptanalysis of Novel Block Ciphers”, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran.
• Fall 2018: “Introduction to Some New Approaches and Challenges in Applied Cryptography”, Invited talk by Iranian Society of Cryptology, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
• Fall 2016: “Novel Topics in Design and Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers”, Invited talk by Iranian Society of Cryptology, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
• Summer 2015: “Cryptanalysis of Lightweight Block Ciphers”, International ISC Conference, Iran.
• Fall 2015: “Probabilistic Self-similarity Cryptanalysis”, Seminars on Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran.