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I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the ENCRYPTO lab where I have the pleasure of working alongside Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider. I earned my Ph.D. in the SPRING lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), advised by Prof. Carmela Troncoso. My journey into the academic world had an early beginning, highlighted by winning a Silver medal in 2011's International Olympiad in Informatics during my high school years. I'm also a member of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3).

My research focus is security and privacy, applied cryptography, and privacy-enhancing technologies; particularly designing deployable solutions to mitigate digital risks for at-risk populations. I have designed systems for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Feel free to read my CV for more information.

Publication

  • K. EdalatNejad, Wouter Lueks, Justinas Sukaitis, Vincent Graf Narbel, Massimo Marelli, Carmela Troncoso: “Janus: Safe Biometric Deduplication for Humanitarian Aid Distribution”. In IEEE S&P 2024.
  • K. EdalatNejad, Mathilde Raynal, Wouter Lueks, Carmela Troncoso: “Private Collection Matching Protocols”. In PoPETS 2023.
  • K. EdalatNejad, W. Lueks, J. Martin, S. Ledésert, A. Lhôte, B. Thomas, L. Girod and C. Troncoso, “DatashareNetwork: A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Search Engine for Investigative Journalists”, in USENIX security 2020.
  • M. Drijvers, K. EdalatNejad, B. Ford, E. Kiltz, J. Loss, G. Neven and I. Stepanovs, “On the Security of Two-Round Multi-Signatures”, in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2019).
  • H. Zhang, K. EdalatNejad, A. Rahmati and H. V. Madhyastha, “Towards Comprehensive Repositories of Opinions”, In 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2016).

Honor & Awards

  • DatashareNetwork: runner up for CNIL-Inria data protection award.2022
  • DatashareNetwork: runner up for the Caspar Bowden award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies.2021
  • EPFL EDIC's IC Distinguished Service Awards.2020
  • EPFL's Teaching Assistant Award.2019
  • EPFL EDIC fellowship for doctoral studies.2017
  • Ministerial Award from Iran's ministry of science, research, and technology for outstanding performance in olympiad.2017
  • Ranked 1st in the Iranian National Computer Science Olympiad for Graduate Students.2016
  • Ranked 6th in the Iranian National Graduate Examination (Konkur).2016
  • Ranked in top 1% in the 9th IEEEXtreme competition.2015
  • Presidential Award from President M. Ahmadinejad for outstanding performance in olympiad.2011
  • International Silver Medal in 23th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Pataya, Thiland. 2011
  • Silver Medal in 5th Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO).2011
  • Ministerial Award from Iran's ministry of science, research, and technology for outstanding performance in olympiad.2010
  • National Gold Medal, Ranked 1st, Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI).2010
  • National Silver Medal Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI).2010
  • Member of Iranian National Elite Foundation.2010
National Silver Medal
Iran's National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI)
International Silver Medal
International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
Pataya, Thiland - 2011
National gold Medal
Iran's National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI)

Software

    • Janus: A tool for private biometric de-duplication supporting trusted hardware, homomorphic encryption, and garbled circuit Repo
    • PCM: A framework for private collection matching protocols Repo
    • DatashareNetwork: A decentralized privacy-preserving search engine
    • SSCred: Single show anonymous credentials and blind signature
    • KSSH: An SSH server as a plugin for Sharif Honeypot Repo
    • KilliCent: A micropayment system based on MilliCent Repo

In news

Contact

My CV is available here. Feel free to contact me.

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