Aria Shahverdi

Cryptography

Side-Channel Attacks

Computer Security

Programming

About Me

Hello! I’m Aria Shahverdi.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the ECE Department at the University of Maryland, College Park MD and I am also a member of Maryland Cybersecurity Center where I am advised by Professor Dana Dachman-Soled. My studies are about the implementation and analysis of cryptographic schemes.

Experience in Post-Quantum Cryptography (Lattice-Based Cryptography and Cryptanalysis of Assumptions such as LWE)
Side-Channel Attacks (Cache Attacks, Power Analysis Attack)

Resume

Education

2015 - Present

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2013 - 2015

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester, Massachusetts

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2008 - 2013

Sharif University of Technology

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Experience

May - August 2018

Research Intern

Envieta

Implemented Picnic post-quantum signature scheme using VHDL.

May - August 2015

Design for Security Intern

Mentor Graphics

Measured performance of PUF on FPGA and designed scalable implementation of SIMON.

August 2013 - Present

Research and Teaching Assistant

UMD & WPI

For RA responsibilities refer to publications section.
UMD: TA for the courses “Computer Systems Security”, “Introduction to Cryptology”.
WPI: TA for the courses “Intro to Cryptography” and “Computer Organization and Design”.

Skills

Knowledge

Cryptography & Data Security
Computer Security
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Technologies
Quantum Information Processing
Statistical Pattern Recognition (Machine Learning)

Coding

Python
C / C++
Verilog / VHDL

Publication

The order of authors in publications marked with (*) is alphabetical.

If you have any issues accessing the following publications, let me know!

(*) D. Dachman-Soled, H. Gong, H. Kippen, A. Shahverdi, BKW Meets Fourier: New Algorithms for LPN with Sparse Parities, TCC 2021.
A. Shahverdi, M. Shirinov, D. Dachman-Soled, Database Reconstruction from Noisy Volumes: A Cache Side-Channel Attack on SQLite, 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21).
(*) D. Dachman-Soled, H. Gong, M. Kulkarni, A. Shahverdi, In-Security of Ring LWE Under Partial Key Exposure, Journal of Mathematical Cryptology 2020.
(*) D. Dachman-Soled, H. Gong, M. Kulkarni, A. Shahverdi, Towards a Ring Analogue of the Leftover Hash Lemma, Journal of Mathematical Cryptology 2020.
M. Chen, A. Shahverdi, S. Anderson, S. Y. Park, J. Zhang, D. Dachman-Soled, K. Lauter, M. Wu, Transparency Tools for Fairness in AI (Luskin), Research in Mathematics and Public Policy 2020.
(*) D. Dachman-Soled, M. Kulkarni, A. Shahverdi, Tight upper and lower bounds for leakage-resilient, locally decodable and updatable non-malleable codes, Information and Computation 2019.
(*) D. Dachman-Soled, M. Kulkarni, A. Shahverdi, Local Non-Malleable Codes in the Bounded Retrieval Model, PKC 2018.
(*) D. Dachman-Soled, M. Kulkarni, A. Shahverdi, Tight Upper and Lower Bounds for Leakage-Resilient, Locally Decodable and Updatable Non-Malleable Codes, PKC 2017.
A. Shahverdi, M. Taha, T. Eisenbarth, Lightweight Side Channel Resistance: Threshold Implementations of SIMON, IEEE Transactions on Computers 2016.
A. Shahverdi, M. Taha, T. Eisenbarth, Silent SIMON: A Threshold Implementation under 100 Slices, 2015 IEEE Int. Symp. on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).
C. Chen, T. Eisenbarth, A. Shahverdi, X. Ye, Balanced Encoding to Mitigate Power Analysis: A Case Study, Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference — CARDIS 2014.
Y. Doroz, A. Shahverdi, T. Eisenbarth, B. Sunar, Toward practical homomorphic evaluation of block ciphers using PRINCE, Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography and Encrypted Computing — WHAC’14, 2014.
A. Shahverdi, C. Chen, T. Eisenbarth, AVRprince – An Efficient Implementation of PRINCE for 8-bit Microprocessors, Technical Report, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2014.

Get in Touch