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 News
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-* **Aug 25, 2022** -- Encryption to the Future <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1423.pdf">(PDF)</a> has been accepted at Asiacrypt 2022!
+* **Aug 31, 2022** -- Defended my PhD thesis titled <a href="/thesis.pdf">Cryptography for Scalability and Identity in Blockchain Applications</a>.
+* **Aug 25, 2022** -- Encryption to the Future <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1423.pdf">(PDF)</a> has been accepted at Asiacrypt 2022.
+* **Apr 15, 2022** -- I will be joining <a href="https://concordium.com/">Concordium </a> as a cryptography researcher from the beginning of June, 2022.
 * **Oct 2021–Jan 2022** -- Visited <a href="https://www.dariofiore.it/">Dario Fiore</a> at IMDEA in Madrid, Spain.
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 Employment
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-* Research Scientist at <a href="https://www.concordium.com/">Concordium</a>, 2022-
+* Research Scientist at <a href="https://www.concordium.com/">Concordium</a>, 2022-Present
 
 Education
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-* Ph.D in Computer Science, Aarhus University, 2022 (expected)
+* Ph.D in Computer Science, Aarhus University, 2022
 	* Thesis: Cryptography for Scalability and Identity in Blockchain Applications <a href="/thesis.pdf">[PDF]</a>, Advisor: Jesper Buus Nielsen
 * M.S. in Computer Science, Sharif University, 2014
 	* Thesis: Public-Key Cryptosystems Resilient to Hard-to-Invert Leakage, Advisor: Shahram Khazaei