Tariq Elahi

Assistant ProfessorSchool of Informatics University of Edinburgh
Office: IF404.A10 Crichton StEdinburgh, UKEH8 9ABEmail: t.elahi[at]ed.ac.ukSkype: tariq[dot]eeTel: +44 131 651 3257

News

  • Our paper on securing anonymous communications systems with toplogical enginnering accepted at ACSAC'22.

  • Awarded a National Research Centre Grant (£8.6M) to work on Protecting Citizens Online! As Co-I of this new Centre, I will be leading projects to research and develop Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) that scale while mitigating their misuse by adversaries.

  • Secured New Investigator Award to investigate "Feedback and Optimisation for Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks".

Hiring

  • We are always happy to accept exceptional PhD students. Please get in touch before, or soon after, you apply.

  • There are currently 2 Postdoctoral openings in the lab. Get in touch via email.

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I am a faculty member of the Security, Privacy, and Trust group (SecPrivTru) and the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) and an affiliate member of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA). [Bio]

Current and Planned Research

  • Anonymous Communication & Censorship Resistance

    • Tor, Mixnets, and ML-assisted Traffic Analysis & Obfuscation

  • Data-Driven Privacy Systems Engineering

    • Privacy-preserving modelling, Private Data Analysis, and ML for Feedback Control and Optimisation

  • Embedding Privacy into the Infrastructure

    • Tor and Mixnets at the Network Layer, Anonymity for Blockchains, and Privacy in IoT

See [Research] and [Publications] for more information.

Teaching

  • INFR11188: Research Methods in Security, Privacy, and Trust (Sem 1 2019, 2020) [course info]

  • INFR10067: Computer Security (Sem 2 2021) [course info]