Hi

My name is Kasra EdalatNejad wich is written 'کسرا عدالت نژاد' in persian.

I'm a Ph.D. student in the SPRING lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), advised by Carmela Troncoso . My Ph.D. thesis title is "Bridging the gap between theoretical and practical privacy technologies for at-risk populations". I'm a member of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) . My primary research interest is security and privacy, applied cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, and anonymous communication.

My academic origin is rooted in the informatics olympiad and I attained Silver medal in 2011's International Olympiad in Informatics during my high school years. Before joining EPFL, I did my undergraduate studies at Department of Computer Engineering of Sharif University of Technology.

You can 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”. Under submission.
- Paper: Arxiv version
K. EdalatNejad, Mathilde Raynal, Wouter Lueks, Carmela Troncoso: “Private Collection Matching Protocols”. In PoPETS 2023.
- Paper: PETS version, Arxiv version
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 version, 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.
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
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).
- Paper: HotNets,

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
Ranked in top 1% in the 9_th IEEEXtreme competition.2015
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
Member of Iranian National Elite Foundation.2010

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

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