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I’m on the job market for cryptography research positions. Would be happy to know if you have any open positions or know of any!

Since October 2024, I am a postdoctoral researcher at École Normale Supérieure, and a visitor at IRIF.

I completed my PhD at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France under the supervision of Alain Passelègue and Gilles Villard. I got my master's degree in computer science from the same university, and completed my bachelore's in computer science at Sharif University of Technology in Iran.

In my PhD, I mainly worked on constrained pseudorandom functions (CPRFs) and their connections to secure computation. Essentially, we showed how to build CPRFs from homomorphic secret sharing and how they can be used to generate correlated (pseudo-)randomness. I’ve also worked on vector commitments and equivocable encryption. These were all really fun projects, and I’ve continued exploring related topics (like this PCF from sparse-LPN) during my postdoc, along with some more theoretical ones, like studying the existence of one-way functions.

I actively try to promote events dedicated to recognizing and empowering women in computer science and mathematics. I am happy to collaborate on organizing such events.