Short CV Curriculum Vitae

Professor Delaram Kahrobaei is the Chair of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at University of York (UK) since November 2018 and the director of York Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security. Before coming to York, she was a Full Professor at the City University of New York. She has adjunct appointments at CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD Program in Computer Science as well as the M.S. Program in Data Science. She is a faculty at Initiatives for Theoretical Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Center for Cyber Security at the New York University as well as the President/co-founder of a university start-up Infoshield, Inc.

Kahrobaei is one of the Associate Editors of the Advances of Mathematics of Communication, published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. 

She is the chief editor of the International Journal of Computer Mathematics: Computer Systems Theory, Taylor & Francis.  

Delaram is one of the Associate Editors of SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Her main research areas are Post-Quantum Algebraic Cryptography, Information Security, Data Science, Applied Algebra. She is particularly interested in developing post-quantum fully homomorphic encryption algorithms for secure processing of sensitive data by artificial intelligence systems using combinatorial algebra.

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 80 publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings including 6 edited books and several patents, since 2004 when she obtained her PhD.

Her educational effort had been partially supported by grants from NASA and NSF ($400K). She is in the Advisory Committee for the newly created CUNY Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Kahrobaei is a member of faculty advisory board of the Data Science @CUNY. She is the founder of New York Women in Mathematics and Computing Network and received NSF grant ($230K) to support such activities. 

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). 

She was a visiting Professor in Sorbonne University Paris 6, University of Toronto, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES, Paris), University of Geneva,  Institut Henri Poincare (Paris), University of Politecnica Catalunya (Barcelona).

She has given 240 invited talks in international and national conferences and seminars.

• Visiting Invited Professor, IHES-Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientiques, Paris, France, June-December 2021.

• Invited Speaker, Max Planck Institute, Workshop on Applied Algebra in Data Science, Leipzig, Germany, September 17-19, 2021.

• Invited Speaker, London Mathematical Society, Profinite Groups, June 2, 2021.

• Invited Participant, Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, Pushing the Limits of Computational Combinatorial Constructions, Germany, March 7-12, 2021

• Invited Speaker, Tbilisi WAMS School On Algebra And Cryptography, The University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 22-June 30, 2021. (Supported by CIMPA)
• Invited Speaker, Mathematics for Information Theory and Communications at the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Conference, Atlanta, USA, June 5-9, 2021.
• Invited Speaker, DLT 2020: 24th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, University of South Florida, USA, May 11-15, 2021.
• Guest Seminar Speaker, Digital Trust & Security, University of Manchester, UK, May 6, 2020.
• 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.
• Visiting Professor at IHP, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, as part of RIP program, January, June, July 2018
• Visiting Professor at IHP, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, for the trimester Analysis in Quantum Information Theory, September 19-October 2 & November 14-27, 2017
• Visiting Professor at the Université Sorbonne in the Quantum Information and PolSys labs of  LIP6, in January, June, July 2017.
• 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 Workshop on Groups, Automata, Graphs, TU Graz, Austria, February 11-12, 2019.
• 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 51 conferences both internationally and nationally.

• Trimester at Institut Henri Poincare, Post-quantum Algebraic Cryptography, Paris, September-December 2021 (with L. Perret, J.-C. Faugère, V. Shpilrain)
• 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2020), Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Coding and Cryptography, with S. Mesnager, 23-27 August 2021, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 18th IMA conference on Cryptography and Coding, Program Committee, UK, December 2021.
• York Workshop in Quantum Information, Complexity & Cryptography (QUICC), University of York (with R. Colbeck, P. Farshim, R. Santhanam, T.Spiller), December, 2020.
• AMS-SMF-EMS Joint International Meeting, American Mathematical Society-Société mathématique de France, European Mathematical Society, Special Session on Group theory, Algortithms and applications, July 5-9, 2021, with I. Chatterji,  F. Dahmani,  M. Deraux, University of Grenoble, France.
•  The challenges and opportunities for women in STEM Post Covid-19, University of York (with Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Partnership and Engagement K. Trehan) October 2020.
• York Interdisciplinary Workshop on Aspects of Cyber Security, University of York (UK), June 20-21, 2019. (with S.Braunstein, S.Pirandola, S.F.Shahandashti, T.Spiller, V.Vasilakis)
• ISSAC 2018, 43rd International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, City University of New York, July 16-19, 2018. (with V. Pan, A. Ovchinikov)
• WAHC'18-6th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography, Toronto, Canada, Program Committee, October 19, 2018.
• ICMS 2018, International Congress Mathematical Software, Special Session on Post-quantum Cryptography, Notre Dame, July 24-28, 2018. (with V. Shpilrain)
• Interactions between Algebra, Machine Learning, Data Privacy, October 20-21, 2018, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (with J. Gryak, K. Najarian, R. Soroushmehr, A. Wood)
• The Defense and Intelligence Research Forum, Research Foundation of the City University of New York, April 20, 2018 (with J. Brumberg, A. Ovchinikov, J. Tsapogas)
• Computations with Groups and Applications as part of the Mathematical Congress of Americas in Montreal, Canada, with I. Bumagin, July 24-28, 2017.
• Cryptography and Information Theory at the Computability in Europe 2017 (CiE) in Turko, Finland, with H. Lipmaa, June 12-16, 2017.
• New York Multidisciplinary Symposium on Security and Privacy, New York University, with Q. Zhu, February 25, 2017.

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 Director, Head of Data Science, Strategy & Analytics, Quant, Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, New York, USA]
• Ha T. Lam [Ph.D. Mathematics 2014, (duration 2 years) Postdoc at CUNY Graduate Center, then CTO at Infoshield, Inc., then Postdoc at Ericsson, Currently Security Engineer at Oblong Industries in LA]
• Bren Cavallo [Ph.D. in Mathematics 2015, (duration 3 years) currently Data Engineer and scientist, Analytics at Facebook]
• Jonathan Gryak [Ph.D. in Computer Science 2017, (duration 3 years), CUNY Graduate Center, Currently Assistant Research Scientist (a research faculty position) in the Michigan Institute for Data Science, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor]
• 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]
• 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]

Kahrobaei is one of the co-organisers of the following seminars:

• Cyber Security Seminar at University of York
• Algebra Cryptography Seminar at CUNY Graduate Center