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Professor Delaram Kahrobaei is the Chair of Cyber Security at University of York (UK) since November 2018. 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. She is the director of York Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security Research.

Kahrobaei is one of the Associate Editors of the Advances of Mathematics of Communication, published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Since 2019).

Her main research area is Post-Quantum Algebraic Cryptography, Information Security, Data Science, Applied 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), London Mathematical Society, Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Swiss National Foundation, Institut Henri Poincare, Association for Women in Mathematics (AMM). She has 70 publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings including 4 edited books in AMS (3) and De Gruyter (1) and patents, since 2004 when she obtained her PhD. During her PhD studies, she was a member of New York Group Theory cooperative as well as Center for Algorithmic and Scientific Software both founded by her PhD advisor Gilbert Baumslag.

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, New York University,  Institut Henri Poincare (Paris), University of Politecnica Catalunya (Barcelona).

She has given 220 invited talks in international and national conferences and seminars.

• Invited Speaker, Mathematics for Information Theory and Communications at the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Conference, Atlanta, USA, June 5-9, 2020.
• Invited Speaker, DLT 2020: 24th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, University of South Florida, May 11-15, 2020.
• 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 Conference 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.
• 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 40 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)
• 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. (Local arrangement committee 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. Horan, 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:

• 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, Financial Resource Management, US Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets]
• 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) former Senior Data Scientist at AdTherent in SoHo, New York, Currently Data Scientist at M Science LLC New York City]
• 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

  University of Michigan, Senior Research Supervisor at University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in Computational Medicine and Bioinformatic Department (2017-2019).]

• 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 in 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]

Here are Kahrobaei’s current PhD students at York:

• Federico Vastarini [PhD Thesis advisor, University of York, Computer Science, starting October 2019][MSc at University of Salerno, Italy]

• Ambroise Grau [PhD co-supervisor with Professor Victoria Gould][PhD in Mathematics, University of York, UK, Starting October 2019][MSc at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland]

• Philokypros Ioulianou [PhD Thesis co-advisor with Dr. Vasilakis][(PhD in Computer Science, University of York,UK since 2019] Intrusion detection in IoT.
• Sijia Tian [PhD Thesis co-advisor with Dr. Vasilakis](PhD in Computer Science, University of York, UK, since 2019) Application-layer security in IoT.

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