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Education

Ph.D in Computer Sciences and Engineering, Koç University, 2014-2019
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, 2008-2013

Work experience

2020-present: Protocol Engineer at Status.im, Zug, Switzerland
- Researching on and developing Waku which is a stack of privacy-preserving and peer to peer open messaging protocols. Waku is the successor of Whisper to be the messaging pillar of Web3, together with Ethereum for consensus and Swarm for storage.
- Researching and designing core functionality.
- Developing sustainable, scalable, fault-tolerant, incentivized distributed systems using cryptoeconomics and traditional technologies e.g., smart contracts.
2019-2020: Senior Computer Scientist at CryptoNumerics Inc., Toronto, Canada
- Privacy researcher and developer
- Developing the core privacy algorithms and protocols
- Developing data privacy softwares, enabling privacy preserving big data analytics and learning over mutually un-trsuted data holders
- Privacy preserving machine learning
- Researching on 1) data de-identification using k-anonymity and differential privacy 2) privacy-protected data sharing and collaboration using secure multi-party computations
2014-2019: Teaching and Research Assistant at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Research and development on applied cryptography, e.g., Secure Multiparty computations and Zero-knowledge proofs.
- Design and development of Byzantine fault tolerant and scalable distributed networks and protocols and storage systems concerning data consistency and availability, security, privacy and integrity and anonymity.
- Architecting solutions using cryptographic primitives and advanced techniques as well as distributed data structures including but not limited to symmetric and asymmetric encryption schemes, commitment schemes, key exchange protocols, advanced signature schemes like ring-based signature and threshold signature, verifiable computation, zero-knowledge proofs and zero-knowledge SNARKs, authenticated data structures, Merkle tree, and distributed routing overlay like DHTs.
- Architected and developed \textit{Privado}, a privacy-preserving advertising system for secure online social networks which enables database querying over encrypted data.
- Architected and developed \textit{Anonyma}, an secure and privacy-preserving one-time invitation-only registration system.
- Architected and developed \textit{Integrita} a censorship-resistant distributed data storage system.
- Leading and supervising interns on developing secure and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Teaching assistant for Courses of Modern Cryptography, Distributed Computing Systems, Data Structures, and Basic and Advanced Programming.
2013-2014: Full Stack Engineer at Idea Pardazan Company, Mashhad, Iran
- Designing and developing web applications using ASP.NET, JavaScript, and CSS
2009-2010: IT Intern at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
- Maintaining IT infrastructure

Skills

Programming : Golang, Java, Python, Nim, MATLAB, Solidity, C/C++, Android
Frameworks and Libraries: JSON Web Token (JWT), PostgreSQL, Jupyter, Pandas, Matplotplib, Numpy
Software Development : Smart Contracts, DApps, Git, Latex, Agile Methodology, RPC, Object Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, Concurrency, Software Architecture
Platforms : Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services
Academic : Cryptography, Applied Modern Cryptography, Finite Field Arithmetic, Privacy, Security, Distributed systems, Authentication, Authorization, Encrypted Computations, Provable Security, Authenticated data Structures, Verifiable Encrypted Computations, Provable Data Possession, Zero-knowledge Proofs, Differential Privacy, K-anonymity, Algorithms, Data Structures