About me

• I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at University College London, advised by Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro.
• My research interests lie in the general area of privacy and machine learning.
• I received my Master’s Degree in Saarland University. My advisor was Prof. Andreas Zeller.
• I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Iran University of Science and Technology.

News

• [May 2023] Slowly looking for a position, either in industry or academia from November 2023.
• [April 2023] As a member of the STARLIT team, which included members from Privitar, UCL, and Cardiff University, we won the joint first prize for the challenge of designing an innovative privacy-preserving solution for financial crime detection.
• [June 2022] I did a research internship at Telefonica under the supervision of Nicolas Kourtelis.
• [September 2021] I did a research internship at Confidential Computing Team under the supervision of Santiago Zanella-Béguelin at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
• [Febraury 2021] I was a program committee member of Distributed and Private Machine Learning Workshop at ICLR 2021.
• [January 2021] I gave a talk in London Pytorch Meetup about privacy and robustness in federated learning.
• [December 2020] I was a program committee shadow member of 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE S&P 2021.