About me
I am a researcher at Bell Labs and a Postdoc at COSIC (KU Leuven) (supervised by Prof. Nigel Smart). Previously, I worked as a PostDoc at imec-DistriNet (supervised by Prof. Wouter Joosen) where I also completed my PhD in 2021.
Research interests (more here):
- Computing on encrypted data: Secure multiparty computation (MPC) & Homomorphic encryption (HE)
- Security and privacy for streaming, storages and data sharing systems: Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) & Encrypted search
- Middleware and software architecture: adaptation, reflection and data security
- [previously] Cloud computing infrastructure: capacity planning, container orchestration frameworks
COED Industry Days: I am a co-organizer of computing-on-encrypted-data industry days. Other co-organizers are Prof. Nigel Smart, Svetla Nikova, Emmanuela Orsini. Previous editions:
- 2021 - Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) (code: COED4321)
- 2022 - Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
I received a PhD degree from KU Leuven (Belgium, 2021), a Master’s degree in distributed systems and computer networks from the University of Antwerp (Belgium, 2014), and a Bachelor’s degrees in computer hardware engineering from the University of Isfahan (Iran, 2010).
Previously, I was a research associate at the imec-DistriNet research group, KU Leuven. Before joining imec-DistriNet, I worked on cloud computing subjects in Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) as part of my Master’s thesis research. Furthermore, I worked for a number of years in the software industry as a software engineer in the Brussels region.
The latest news and what am I doing now?
- Our recent work is out on eprint (2023); we present and thoroughly evaluate a star-like networking model for MPC protocols with stragglers.
- Our recent paper on “Robust Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Client-centric Mobile Web Applications” has been published in (IEEE TPDS 2023)
- Joined Bell Labs in 2022.
- Our paper has been accepted and presented at the EuroSec ‘22 of EuroSys ‘22 in Rennes, France.
- I will be attending: EuroSys ‘22 and Real-World Crypto (RWC ‘22).
- Our paper has been accepted at ICSOC ‘21 (15% acceptance rate); the paper was based on a collaboration with several colleagues at distrinet and a Flemish industry partner.