Saleh Darzi

Saleh Darzi

Biography

Saleh Darzi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering Department, actively engaged in research within the Applied Cryptography Research Laboratory (ACRL) under the supervision of Dr. Attila Yavuz at the University of South Florida. His primary research pursuits revolve around post-quantum and applied cryptography, with a focus on addressing challenges in the privacy and security of IoT, Blockchain technology, and network security. Saleh holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (Communication-System) from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, obtained in 2021.

Email: salehdarzi@usf.edu

Office: IDR 400, Interdisciplinary Research Building, University of South Florida

Interests

Post-Quantum Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Security, Privacy, Blockchains

Recent News

•   I am pleased to announce that myh paper has been accepted for presentation in the SVCC 2025: Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference. I will be presenting my work from June 23rd to June 25th, 2025, in Marriott Silicon Valley in California USA.

•   I am pleased to announce that my paper has been accepted for presentation in Track 3 - Cyber Security and Trusted Computing at the IEEE Military Communications Conference. I will be presenting my work from October 28 to November 1, 2024, in Washington, DC, USA.

•   I am delighted to share that our lab's international proposal, titled "NSF-SNSF: A Resilient and Efficient Cybersecurity Fabric and Evaluation Framework for Future Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks (SATUQ)," has been awarded by the NSF. This unique international project involves principal investigators from the USA (USF) and Switzerland (ZHAW), each funded by the NSF and SNSF, respectively, working towards a shared research objective. I will be contributing to the project as an investigator on the USA side.

•   My latest visionary paper titled "Counter Denial of Service for Next-Generation Networks within the Artificial Intelligence and Post-Quantum Era" is realeased as a pre-print, and is currently under revision of "The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications"

•   I am pleased to announce that our lab's proposal, "Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Distributed Computing in Effect: Towards Trustworthy, Resilient, and Secure NextG Mobile Networks", has been awarded by the NSF. This collaborative project involves the University of South Florida, Virginia Tech, and Oregon State University. I am eager to embark on this groundbreaking cybersecurity research, which aims to revolutionize Next-Generation (NextG) networks through distributed security, multi-party computation, and side-channel resiliency in the post-quantum era. We extend our sincere gratitude to the NSF for their invaluable support.

•   I am pleased to announce that we have submitted a US patent titled "A System and Method for Privacy-Preserving and Post-Quantum Secure Counter Denial of Service for Spectrum Management in Next-Generation Wireless Networks," which is currently pending approval.

Publications

    [E] SLAP: Secure Location-proof and Anonymous Privacy-preserving Spectrum Access
    Saleh Darzi and Attila A. Yavuz
    Accepted in the SVCC 2025: Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference
    [E] Counter Denial of Service for Next-Generation Networks within the Artificial Intelligence and Post-Quantum Era
    Saleh Darzi and Attila A. Yavuz
    Submited to 6th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA)
    [E] PQC meets ML or AI: Exploring the Synergy of Machine Learning and Post-quantum Cryptography
    Saleh Darzi , Attila A. Yavuz
    Authorea Preprints 2023
    [E] LiteQSign: Lightweight and Scalable Post-Quantum Authentication for Heterogeneous IoT Applications
    Attila A. Yavuz , Saleh Darzi , Saif E. Nouma
    Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2025.
    [E] Envisioning the future of cyber security in post-quantum era: A survey on pq standardization, applications, challenges and opportunities
    Saleh Darzi , Kasra Ahmadi , Saeed Aghapour, Attila A. Yavuz, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani
    Submitted to Jounral of ACM Computing Surveys 2023.
    [C] Beyond Basic Trust: Envisioning the Future of NextGen Networked Systems and Digital Signatures
    Attila A. Yavuz , Kiarash Sedghighadikolaei , Saleh Darzi , Saif E. Nouma
    2023 5th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA)
    [J] LPM2DA: a lattice-based privacy-preserving multi-functional and multi-dimensional data aggregation scheme for smart grid
    Saleh Darzi , Bahareh Akhbari , Hassan Khodaiemehr
    Cluster Computing Journal 2022.
    [Th] Improving Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Smart Grid using Lattice-based Cryptography
    Saleh Darzi , Bahareh Akhbari , Hassan Khodaiemehr
    Master's Thesis in K. N. Toosi University of Technology March 2021.

Experience

Teaching

•   Teaching Assistant in Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy Cyber-Systems (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022)

•   Teaching Assistant in Cryptography: Theory and Practice (Fall 2023, Fall 2022)

•   Teaching Assistant in Penetration Testing for IT (Fall 2023)

•   Tutoring Graduate Students in Lattice-based Cryptography (Summer 2020)

•   Tutoring Graduate Students in Applied Cryptography (Summer 2020)

•   Teaching Assistant in Network security (Spring 2020)

•   Teaching Assistant in Information Theory (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)

Service

•   Reviewer of IEEE IoT Journal

•   Reviewer of Journal of Information Security and Applications

•   Reviewer of Cluster Computing Journal

•   Reviewer of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)

•   Reviewer of International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET)

•   Graduate Student Member of IEEE

•   Member of IEEE Communications Society Membership

•   Member of IEEE Young Professionals

•   Member of Iranian Society of Cryptology

Contact

Email: salehdarzi@usf.edu

Office: IDR 400, Interdisciplinary Research Building, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

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