Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

QC The City University of New York

Doctoral Faculty PhD Program in Mathematics

The CUNY Graduate Center

Doctoral Faculty The Initiatives for the Theoretical Sciences,

The CUNY Graduate Center

Honorary Visiting Professor of Computer Science

University of York (UK)

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

New York University

Curriculum Vitae | Wikipedia Page | Publications

Upcoming Events in 2025:

Paris: Visiting Professor Supported by Carmin Fellowship, IHES-Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientiques, Paris, France (June 2024-January 2025).
Invited Speaker, University of Rennes France, Cryptography Seminar, January 10, 2025
University of York, UK, January 13-14, 2025
University of Salerno, PhD Defense Thesis co-supervisor, February 17, 2025
University of Pittsburgh, Mathematics Colloquium invited speaker, February 28, 2025
Posthoc Salon, New York, May 19, 2025
Arlington, Virginia, Workshop on Quantum Graph States: Bridging Classical Theory and Quantum Innovation, May 28-30, 2025
Zűrich, Switzerland, Keynote speaker, Workshop on the mathematics of post-quantum cryptography, June 2-6, 2025
Paris, France, ONR Meeting and Visiting Professor Epita, June 5-15, 2025
London, UK, Launch Ceremony of IHES Trust UK, June 12, 2025
Google Quantum AI, Seminar, Invited Speaker, June 17, 2025
Amalfi Coast, Salerno, Italy, June 16-20, 2025
Caserta, Italy, Invited Speaker, Miniworkshop on Group Theory and Applications, The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, June 18, 2025
Műnich, Germany, Program Committee Member, Workshop on Quantum-Safe Hybrid Cryptography, June 25, 2025
University of Cassino, Italy, Invited Professor, June 16-July 16, 2025
Rome, Italy, Program Committee, FCiR25 - Financial Cryptography in Rome October 1, 2025
NYC, Invited Panelist, Panel 4: AI, Quantum, and Cybersecurity , IQT Quantum + AI 2025 Conference, October 19-21, 2025
Hamburg, Germany, Invited Delegate, The inaugural Global Security and Innovation Summit (GSIS), October 22-23, 2025, GSIS has been established through a strategic partnership between The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Hamburg Messe und Congress (HMC) to provide a joint platform for international decision-makers and subject-matter experts to discuss the growing number of global security challenges and develop innovative solutions.
Radboud University, Netherlands, PhD Thesis Committee, November 21, 2025

Events in 2024:

Paris: Lead organiser, 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
Paris: IHP, Computational Group Theory and Applications, Co-Organizer, September 23-25, 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.
IHP Seminar Organizer: PQC Seminar

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.

At CUNY Graduate Center, she is a member of the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences and Doctoral Faculty at the Ph D Program in Mathematics .

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.

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.

She was previously an Assistant Professor in Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, at Scotland’s prestigious U niversity 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 Editor 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.

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 300 invited talks in international and national conferences and seminars.

University of Oxford, UK, Mathematical Institute, Mathematics Colloquium Invited Speaker, June 14, 2024.
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, Cryptography conference CIFRIS23 De Componendis Cifris Association, Rome, December 13-16 2023
University of Oxford, UK, Invited Speaker, The Oxford Internet Policy & Politics Conference, Policy Studies Organization, January 27, 2024.
Ischia, Italy, Plenary Speaker, Ischia Group Theory Conference, April 8-13, 2024
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
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

Kahrobaei's former Postdoc at Sorbonne University, France

Christopher Battarbee (2023-2025) with L. Perret

Here are Kahrobaei's PhD students at University of York (UK)

Christopher Battarbee (2020-2025) Former Postdocoral Fellow at Sorbonne University (Paris, France), Currently Research Associate at University of Edinburgh
Juan Viera (2023-2026) Supervision commitee, Supervisor 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 Full Professor, PennWest California University, 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 and Doctoral Faculty and Deputy Executive Officer at CUNY Graduate Center, 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 Tenured Associate 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]