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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.

My research focus is security and privacy, applied cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, and multiparty computation; 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.

Selected Publication & Talks

Fore the full list, please refer to:
- Google scholar
- DBLP
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.
- Paper: USENIX, Extended edition
- Presentation: USENIX presentation
- Runner up for the Caspar Bowden award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies.
- Runner up for CNIL-Inria data protection award.
- Real World Crypto contributed talk:
  - RWC: lessons learned from deploying DatashareNetwork
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.
- Paper: IEEE S&P, Arxiv version
- Presentation: IEEE S&P presentation
K. EdalatNejad, Mathilde Raynal, Wouter Lueks, Carmela Troncoso: “Private Collection Matching Protocols”. In PoPETS 2023.
- Paper: PETS version, Arxiv version
- Presentation: PETS presentation
- NIST Workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography:
  - NIST presentation
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).
- Paper: IEEE S&P, Arxiv

Honor & Awards

CROSSING Collaboration Award (CRC 1119, DFG-funded), For project: Efficient Anonymous Credential Revocation at Continental Scale.2025
CROSSING Collaboration Award (CRC 1119, DFG-funded), For project: Encrypted MultiChannel Communication (EMC2): Johnny should use secret sharing.2024
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 1_st in the Iranian National Computer Science Olympiad for Graduate Students.2016
Ranked 6_th in the Iranian National Graduate Examination (Konkur).2016
Presidential Award from President M. Ahmadinejad for outstanding performance in olympiad.2011
International Silver Medal in 23_th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Pataya, Thiland. 2011
Silver Medal in 5_th 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 1_st, Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI).2010
National Silver Medal Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI).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
- Proof of concept for DatashareNetwok cryptographic primitives: Repo
- Production code: Core, Client, Server
SSCred: Single show anonymous credentials and blind signature
- Source code: Repo
- Pypi package: Package
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.

Academic Email
edalat@encrypto.cs.tu-darmstadt.de
PGP key
Git
@kasra-edalat