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+I am an industrial researcher at <a href="https://www.partisia.com/">Partisia</a>. Before that, I was a cryptography researcher at <a href="https://concordium.com/">Concordium </a> from June 2022 to March 2024. I completed my PhD at Aarhus University from June 2019 to May 2022, under the supervision of <a href="https://multipartycomputation.blogspot.com/p/multiparty-computation.html">Jesper Buus Nielsen</a>, with <a href="https://www.binarywhales.com/">Matteo Campanneli</a> and <a href="https://cs.au.dk/~ivan/">Ivan Damgård</a> as co-supervisors. 
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-I'm a postdoc researcher in the <a href="https://cs.au.dk/~orlandi/cryptogroup/">Cryptography and Security Group </a> at Aarhus University, since April 2024. Before that, I was a cryptography researcher at <a href="https://concordium.com/">Concordium </a> from June 2022 to March 2024. Prior to that, I was a PhD student at Aarhus University from June 2019 to May 2022, under the supervision of <a href="https://multipartycomputation.blogspot.com/p/multiparty-computation.html">Jesper Buus Nielsen</a>, with <a href="https://www.binarywhales.com/">Matteo Campanneli</a> and <a href="https://cs.au.dk/~ivan/">Ivan Damgård</a> as co-supervisors. I obtained my master's degree in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology under the guidance of <a href="http://sharif.ir/~shahram.khazaei/home.html">Shahram Khazaei</a>.
 
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-My research is mainly focused on privacy-preserving technologies for blockchains, particularly proof systems with desirable properties, such as succinctness and zero knowledge.
+My research mainly focuses on privacy-preserving technologies for blockchains. I'm particularly interested in multi-party computation and proof systems with cool features like succinctness and zero-knowledge.
 
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 Since June 2022 I am a cryptography researcher at <a href="https://concordium.com/">Concordium </a>.
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-* **Dec 22, 2023** -- I will be joining Aarhus crypto group as a postdoc from the beginning of April, 2024.
+* **Apr 17, 2024** -- I will be joining Partisia as an industrial researcher from the beginning of August 2024.
 * **Dec 22, 2023** -- Witness Encryption for Functional Commitments <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1510.pdf">(PDF)</a> got accepted at PKC 2023.
 * **Aug 31, 2022** -- Defended my <a href="/thesis.pdf">PhD thesis</a> titled "Cryptography for Scalability and Identity in Blockchain Applications".
 * **Aug 25, 2022** -- Encryption to the Future <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1423.pdf">(PDF)</a> has been accepted at Asiacrypt 2022.