Short CV Curriculum Vitae

Professor Delaram Kahrobaei is the University Dean for Research at the City University of New York (CUNY Central) since August 2021. She is also a tenured full Professor in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments at Queens College (CUNY).

Before going back to New York she was the Chair of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at University of York (England) and the director of York Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security. She has appointments at CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD Program in Computer Science, the M.S. Program in Data Science and at the Initiatives for Theoretical Sciences. 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 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 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 85 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. 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 to support such activities. 

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.

• Invited CARMIN Professor, IHES-Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientiques, Paris, France, September 2024 - February 2025.
• Keynote speaker, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, New York University, December 6-10, 2020.
• Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians 2022, ICM Satelite Conference, Mathematical Aspects of Post-quantum Cryptography, June 25-29, 2022, Russia
• Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Security & Privacy (ICSP 2021), India (Online), November 16-17, 2021.

• Invited Speaker, Max Planck Institute, Workshop on Applied Algebra in Data Science, Leipzig, Germany, 2022.

• Invited Speaker, London Mathematical Society, LMS Midlands Regional Meeting and Workshop, Profinite Groups, London, UK, 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, Rome, Italy, June 5-9, 2022.
• 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 2024 (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, The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Oxford, UK, December 2021.
• York Workshop in Quantum Information, Complexity & Cryptography (QUICC), University of York (with R. Colbeck, P. Farshim, R. Santhanam, T.Spiller), 2021.
• 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, 2022, with I. Chatterji,  F. Dahmani,  M. Deraux, University of Grenoble, France.
• 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) Former Director, Head of Data Science, Strategy & Analytics, Quant, Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, Currently Senior Vice President, Techniques, Two Sigma, 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, 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]

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

• Algebra Cryptography Seminar at CUNY Graduate Center