Students & Supervision

Master’s Thesis Supervision

• Noah Knapen, On Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing Schemes and Applications,
  COSIC, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium, 2023–2024

• Dheeray Kumar Suryakari, Packed Pre-Constructed Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing and Applications,
  COSIC, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium, 2024–2025

• Louis Gregg, Improving Latency in Tor with Strategic Path Selection,
  COSIC, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium, 2024–2025

• Emre Tosun, On Practical Verifiable Timed Secret Sharing,
  COSIC, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium, 2025–2026

• Nicolas Sarabia Sauquillo, Mixnet Traffic Analysis from the Perspective of a Network Adversary,
  COSIC, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Belgium, 2025–2026

Summer Internship Supervision

• Alexis Cao, On Mix Network Security Analysis, COSIC, KU Leuven, 2025
• Amir Hossein Ravan Nakhjavani, Long-Term Exposure in Mixnets: From Theory to Practice, COSIC, KU Leuven, 2026

PhD Supervision

• Heng Zhang, Encrypted Traffic Classification on Internet for Improving Services,
  COSIC, KU Leuven — Daily supervision, 2025–2026
• Pablo Sánchez, Traffic Fingerprinting Against Mixnets, COSIC, KU Leuven — Daily supervision, 2026–2027

Teaching Experience

Lecturer

• Advanced Privacy, COSIC, KU Leuven
  Winter 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 (partial lecturer)

Teaching Assistant — KU Leuven

COSIC, Master of Cybersecurity, 2021–2026

Courses:

• Basic Cybersecurity
• Privacy and Big Data
• Privacy Technologies
• Advanced Privacy

Responsibilities include organizing exercise sessions, supervising and mentoring students, and grading assignments and exams.

Teaching Assistant — Iran

• Spring 2020 — Teaching Assistant in Machine Learning
  EE Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• Spring 2020 — Teaching Assistant in Advanced Cryptography
  EE Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• Fall 2019 — Teaching Assistant in Cryptography
  EE Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• 2017–Present — Teaching Assistant in Numerical Analysis
  EE Department, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• 2018–2019 — Teaching Assistant in Discrete Signal Processing
  EE Department, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• Spring 2018 — Teaching Assistant in Signals and Systems
  EE Department, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• Fall 2017 — Teaching Assistant in Engineering Probability
  EE Department, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Academic Service & Events

• October 2025 — Poster presentation to the International Strategic Advisory Board during the review of the Cybersecurity Research Program Flanders (CRPF) at COSIC