Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
QC The City University of New York
Currently in Paris: Visiting Professor Supported by CARMIN Project, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France)
Honorary Visiting Professor of Computer Science
University of York (UK)
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
New York University
Doctoral Faculty The Initiatives for the Theoretical Sciences,
The CUNY Graduate Center
Upcoming trips:
New York: UK-US Quantum Collaboration Meeting, British General Consulate, November 16-17, 2023
Rome: Invited Speaker, Cryptography conference CIFRIS23 De Componendis Cifris Association, December 13-16 2023
University of Bristol, England, Colloquium Speaker, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, January 25, 2024
University of Southampton, England, Colloquium Speaker, Pure Mathematics Colloquium, January 26, 2024
University of Oxford, UK, Invited Speaker, The Oxford Internet Policy & Politics Conference, Policy Studies Organization, January 27, 2024.
Florida Atlantic University, Invited Speaker, I-SENSE Distinguished Seminar Series, February 16, 2023
Virginia Tech: Invited Speaker, ACCESS: Algebraic Coding and Cryptography Seminar Series Online, February 20, 2024
NYC Innovation Hot Spot Network Resources Meeting, March 5, 2024
CUNY Central Office of Research, Invited Speaker, CUNY Research Scholars Program Tech Fellows AI Lecture series, March 15, 2024
Washington DC: Invited Speaker, American Mathematical Society, Spring 2024 AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting, special session on “Post-Quantum Cryptography”, April 6-7, 2024
Ischia, Italy, Plenary Speaker, Ischia Group Theory Conference, April 8-13, 2024
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, External Advisor, Center for Data Driven Drug Development and Treatment Assessment (DATA), April 21-24, 2024
Pasadena, Caltech, California: American Institute of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Workshop Co-organizer, Post-quantum Group-based Cryptography, April 29-May 4, 2024
Elk, Californian, May 23-27, 2024.
Paris: Selected as the CARMIN Professor by the IHES-Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientiques, Paris, France (June 2024-January 2025).
University of Oxford, UK, Paper accepted, Post-quantum Cryptography 2024 Conference, PQC 2024, June 12-14, 2024
University College London (UCL), UK, Department of Computer Science, Invited Seminar Speaker, June 13, 2024.
University of Oxford, UK, Mathematical Institute, Mathematics Colloquium Invited Speaker, June 14, 2024.
Paris, University of Paris VIII, Mathematics Department, Jury of the PhD thesis, June 18, 2024.
Paris, France, Sorbonne Université, ONR meeting, June 19, 2024.
London, Royal Ascot, June 22, 2024.
Paris, France, Qube Research & Technologies, Scientific Breakfast Speaker on behalf of IHES-Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientiques June 25, 2024
Monaco: IHES Event, July 3, 2024.
Riva San Vitale, Switzerland: Plenary Speaker and Group Leader, Coding Theory & Cryptography Summer School and Collaboration Workshop at the Virginia Tech Steger Center, July 1-5, 2024.
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Co-organizer, 20th Computability in Europe 2024, CiE 2024, Quantum Computation Special Session, July 12, 2024.
Seville, Spain: Invited Speaker, 9th European Congress of Mathematics, of the European Mathematical Society, Special Session on Group Theory and Applications to Cryptography, July 19, 2024.
Sicily: Palermo, Italy: Università degli Studi di Palermo, Co-Organizer Post-quantum Group-based Cryptography Special Session, at the 2nd Joint Meeting Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) & the American Mathematical Society (AMS), July 25 - July 26, 2024
Paris: Lead organiser of the upcoming Trimester at Institut Henri Poincare, Post-quantum Algebraic Cryptography, Paris, France, September-December 2024
Corsica, Institut d'Études Scientifiques, Co-Organizer and Spekaer, Summer School: Post-quantum algebraic cryptography, September 9-13, 2024
Rome: Program Committee Member , Cryptography conference CIFRIS24 De Componendis Cifris Association, September 25-27 2024
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, Co-organizer, Workshop 1: Deployment of post-quantum cryptography, October 7 to 11, 2024
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, Co-organizer and speaker, Workshop 2: Emerging topics in design and cryptanalysis of post-quantum schemes, November 4 to 8, 2024
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, Co-organizer, Workshop 3: Quantum technologies for cryptography. December 2 to 6, 2024.
Italy: Invited speaker, Italian Cryptography and Codes Group Seminar, October 2024.
Bio
Professor Delaram Kahrobaei is a tenured full Professor in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments at Queens College, The City University of New York. (Since 2021)
Kahrobaei is the Honorary Chair of Cybersecurity at the University of York (UK), one of the Russell Group Universities in the United Kingdom.
She is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, teaching graduate courses in Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Cryptography, Foundations of Computer Science.
Kahrobaei was featured as "Voices of Women at IHES" in the occasion of the United Nations 2022 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Kahrobaei was featured as one of the 6 Distinguished Scientists by the IHES for the Women in Fundamental Research.
Kahrobaei was the University Dean for Research at The City University of New York (2021-2022).
Before going back to New York she was the Chair of Cyber Security (equivalent to Tenured Distinguished Professor) in Department of Computer Science at University of York (UK) and the founding director of York Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security.
At CUNY Graduate Center, she is a member of the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences.
Kahrobaei is a member of board of directors of Friends of IHES.
Kahrobaei an external advisor of QUASAR (Quantum Security via Algebras and Representation Theory) based in University of Ottawa (Canada).
External Advisor, NSF funded Accelerating impact through Partnerships, Center for Data Driven Drug Development and Treatment Assessment (DATA), University of Michigan.
Kahrobaei is a member of Scientific Board at the Feynman Foundation, Quantum for Humanity, Brussels (Belgium).
She was previously an Assistant Professor in Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, at Scotland’s prestigious University of St Andrews and a member of Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (2004-2006).
Kahrobaei is the Chief/Associate Editor of the following journals:
Associate Editor, Advances of Mathematics of Communication, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Chief editor of the International Journal of Computer Mathematics: Computer Systems Theory, Taylor & Francis.
Associate Editors of SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Cryptology, De Gruyter.
Associate Editor, La Matematica, Springer Nature Group, Official Journal of the Association for Women in Mathematics, Section: Mathematics of Quantum Computing, Cryptography, and Artificial Intelligence.
Her main research interests are
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Artificial Intelligence
Applied Algebra
Quantum Computation
These surveys summarise Kahrobaei's recent research work:
Group-based Cryptography in the Quantum Era (Invited paper by The Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 2023)
Homomorphic Encryption for Machine Learning in Medicine and Bioinformatics (Association for Computing Machinery, Computing Surveys, 2021)
A Survey on Delegated Computation (Invited Paper, DLT 2022, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022)
Semidirect Product Key Exchange: the State of Play (Journal of Algebra and Applications, World Scientific, 2023).
These are Kahrobaei's books:
Applications of Group Theory in Cryptography: Post-quantum Group-based Cryptography American Mathematical Society, 2024
Hand Book: Artificial Intelligence in Health care and Medicine, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2022
Hand Book: Post-quantum Cryptography, to be published in Springer, Information Security and Cryptography book series, (Forthcoming 2025)
Collection Book: Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography and Coding Theory, La Matematica, Springer Nature (2024)
Edited Book: Mathematics of Cryptography and Coding in the Quantum Era, International Journal of Computer Mathematics: Computer Systems Theory, Taylor & Francis (2021).
Edited Book: Algebra and Computer Science, American Mathematical Society, Contemporary Mathematics, (2016).
Edited Book: Algorithmic Problems in Group Theory, Their Complexity and applications in Information Security, American Mathematical Society, Contemporary Mathematics (2015)
Edited Book: Computational and Combinatorial Group Theory and Cryptography, American Mathematical Society, Contemporary Mathematics, 2012
Group products and residual solvability, 128 pp, ISBN-10: 3843368465, ISBN-13: 9783843368469 (2010)
Edited Book: Groups, Complexity, Cryptology, De Gruyter Publication, 3, Issue 1, ISSN 1869-6104 (2011).
Research Grants:
Her research has been partially supported by grants from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Canadian New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration (NFRFE), American Association of Advancement in Sciences (AAAS), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Security Agency (NSA), Research Foundation of CUNY (RF), UK-Netherlands: York Maastricht Partnership Investment Fund, London Mathematical Society, Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Swiss National Foundation, Institut Henri Poincare, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
She has 100+ publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings including 10 (edited) books and several patents, since 2004 when she obtained her PhD, under direction of Gilbert Baumslag.
She is the founder of New York Women in Mathematics and Computing Network and received NSF grant to support such activities.
She was/is a visiting Professor at
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES, Paris), France
Institut Henri Poincare (IHP, Paris), France
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
University of Geneva, Switzerland
University of Politecnica Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
University of Salerno, Italy
University of Toronto, Canada
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
She has given over 290 invited talks in international and national conferences and seminars.
Invited Speaker, Princeton University, Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Mathematics Department, February 23, 2023
Invited Speaker at École Normale Supérieure Un après-midi de théorie des groupes, Ulm Paris, January 10, 2023
Invited Speaker, The Canadian Mathematical Society, Special Session on Theory and Applications of Finite Fields, June 4, 2023, Ottawa.
Invited Speaker, Internet Policy and Politics Conference, Policy Studies Organization (PSO), University of Oxford,UK, January 21, 2023. Presenting a talk on "The impact of the quantum computing in the internet security and consequences for international collaboration towards common policy".
Plenary Speaker at Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Geometric and Algorithmic Group Theory & Applications, Vienna, Austria, July 17-21, 2023.
Government Event: Chair of the Public Sector Cyber Security and Data Protection Conference 2022, London September 15-27, 2022.
Invited Speaker, Conference in Applied Algebra in Data Science, Osnabrück, Germany, September 6-8, 2023.
Keynote speaker, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, New York University, December 6-10, 2020.
Invited Speaker, DLT 2022: 26th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, University of South Florida, USA, May 9-13, 2022.
Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Security & Privacy (ICSP 2021), India (Online), November 16-17, 2021.
Invited Speaker, London Mathematical Society, LMS Midlands Regional Meeting and Workshop, Profinite Groups, London, UK, June 2, 2021.
Plenary Speaker, Ischia Group Theory Conference 2020, Amalfi Coast, Italy, March 30-April 4, 2021.
Invited Speaker, The London Mathematical Society, Computer Science Colloquium, Annual Theme: Mathematics of Security, De Morgan House, London, UK, November 13, 2019
Invited speaker, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics (BMSA) within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Mathematical Frontiers, Quantum Encryption, November 12, 2019.
Keynote Speaker, Women in Mathematics: Opportunities for the future, at University of Bristol, November 5, 2019.
Invited Talk (1 hour), The American Mathematical Society, Special Session on What's New in Group Theory, University of Binghamton, October 12-13, 2019.
Plenary Talk, The Royal Statistical Society, Conference on Statistics in Cyber Security, London, October 3, 2019.
Plenary speaker at EIMI, The Euler International Mathematical Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Program in Groups-Geometry-Analysis, October 1-5, 2018.
Invited speaker of the Conference of Semigroups, and Groups, Automata, Logics (SandGAL19), Politecnico di Milano, Italy, June 10-13, 2019
Invited speaker at the 8th Applied Algebra and Geometry Meeting at University of Glasgow, Scotland, May 30-31, 2019.
Invited speaker of the MealyM Conference in University Diderot, Paris 7, July 12, 2017.
Invited speaker at NASA Goddard Information Science and Technology Colloquium hosted by the Goddard Chief Information Officer, May 17, 2017.
Invited speaker at the Distinguished Speakers Women in Computer Science Seminar Series at Oxford University, UK, Department of Computer Science, October 11, 2016.
Plenary speaker at the Computability in Europe 2016 Conference (CiE) Paris June 2016.
Plenary speaker at the Women in Computability Workshop Paris June 2016.
Invited speaker at IHP, Institut Henri Poincare, during the trimester on Nexus of Information and Computation Theories, Paris, winter 2016.
Kahrobaei has organized over 60 conferences both internationally and nationally.
Trimester at Institut Henri Poincare, Post-quantum Algebraic Cryptography, Paris, September-December 2024
Here are Kahrobaei's Postdoc at Sorbonne University, France
Christopher Battarbee (2023-2026) LinkedIn with L. Perret
Here are Kahrobaei's PhD students at University of York (UK)
Christopher Battarbee (2020-2023) LinkedIn Upcoming position: Postdocoral Fellow at Sorbonne University (Paris, France)
Juan Viera (2023-2026) with T. Spiller, Physics Department
Here is Kahrobaei's PhD student at University of Salerno (Italy)
Martina Vigoritto (2022-2024) with M. Tota
Here are Kahrobaei’s past PhD students and postdocs in New York: [Former PhD Students]
Maggie Habeeb [Ph.D. Mathematics, 2012, (duration 2 years), Currently Tenured Associate Professor, California University in Pennsylvania, Department of Mathematics]
Bobby Koupparis [Ph.D. Mathematics, 2012, (duration 2 years) Currently Managing Director, Techniques, Two Sigma, New York, USA, Former Director, Head of Data Science, Strategy & Analytics, Quant, Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets]
Ha T. Lam [Ph.D. Mathematics 2014, (duration 2 years) Currently Senior Applied Cryptographer at Oracle, California, Postdoc at CUNY Graduate Center, then CTO at Infoshield, Inc., then Postdoc at Ericsson, Former Security Engineer at Oblong Industries in LA]
Bren Cavallo [Ph.D. in Mathematics 2015, (duration 3 years) currently Senior Data scientist, AI Meta, New York]
Jonathan Gryak [Ph.D. in Computer Science 2017, (duration 3 years), CUNY Graduate Center, Currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Queens College, The City University of New York, Previously Assistant Research Scientist (a research faculty position) in the Michigan Institute for Data Science, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2017-2022)]
Matluba Khodjaeva [Ph.D. in Computer Science 2017, duration 1 year, CUNY Graduate Center, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor, City University of New York, John Jay College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctoral Faculty at CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Program in Computer Science, Member of the Digital Forensics Cybersecurity.]
Alexander Wood [Ph.D. in Computer Science, September 2018, CUNY Graduate Center, postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan, Computational Medicine Department, Currently artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE, highly selective National Security Accelerator Program (NSAP)]
Jordi Delgado [Visiting PhD student in Mathematics from Barcelona, CUNY Graduate Center, Summer and Fall 2015, currently postdoctoral fellow at University of Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain]
Armin Weiss [Postdoc in Computer Science, summer 2015, CUNY Graduate Center, currently researcher at Stuttgart University, Germany, Department of Computer Science]
Alexey Gribov [Postdoc in Computer Science, 2015-January 2017, CUNY Graduate Center, currently Scientist at Symbiont, a New York-based startup applying blockchain technology to finance]
Here are Kahrobaei's visiting postdocs at York and New York:
Marialaura Noce (Göttingen, Germany, Salerno, Italy)
Corentin Le Coz (Technion, Israel, Ghent, Belgium)
Mima Stanojkovski (Max Plank, Germany, Trento, Italy)
Maria Cumplido (Seville, Spain)
Eilidh McKemmie (Rutgers New Brunswick, USA)
Carmine Monetta (Salerno, Italy)
Delaram Kahrobaei ©2024
E-mail: delaram.kahrobaei61@gc.cuny.edu, delaram.kahrobaei@york.ac.uk delaram.kahrobaei@qc.cuny.edu dk2572@nyu.edu
Tel: +1.917.494.9798 (New York) +33 (0)7 83 12 23 35 (Paris) +44 (0) 7508 246 308 (London)
Web Page: https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/delaram-kahrobaei/
Matluba Khodjaeva
Bobby Koupparis
Jonathan Gryak
Christopher Battarbee
Maggie Habeeb
Alexander Wood
Ha Lam
Bren Cavallo
Gilbert Baumslag
University of York 2019
Timothy Spiller, Ludovic Perret
Henry Gray & Corentin Le Coz
Martina Vigoritto
Thomas Koberda & Ramón Flores
Marialaura Noce
Ischia Group Theory Conference 2022
UK Government Event: Cybersecurity & Data Protection Conference, London, 2022
Writing in New York CIty
Cycling
I am a swimmer and won several medals in college.
I am the aunt of Dara-Olivier (a young mathematician) & Arad Oscar.
My cat Professor Who.
I am a traveler. One of my best trips in Tel Aviv, Israel
I play the flute, before doing mathematics.
I started playing Golf recently.
I love bookshops & that includes the Brandy Library in TriBeCa New York and the Shakespear Bookshop in Paris.
I enjoy cooking
(French, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Turkish, Kurdish, Iberian)
& wine/whiskey tasting
(especially French/Japanese).
I take bilingual acting workshops in Paris and New York.