Saleh Darzi

✔ Post-Quantum Cryptography, ✔ Applied Cryptography, ✔ Network Security, ✔ Privacy, ✔ Next-Generation Networks, ✔ Trustworthy AI, ✔ Blockchains

•  I’m pleased to share that my paper titled "QLAP: A Quantum-Resilient Security and Privacy Framework for Dynamic Spectrum Access" has been accepted in MobiArch 2026, the 21st Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture, to be held in conjunction with MobiCom 2026 in Austin, Texas, USA.

•  I’m pleased to share that we have submitted our paper titled "A Lightweight Post-Quantum Authentication Framework for 5G Base Station Bootstrapping" to NDSS 2027, to be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 22 to 26 March 2027. The preprint is now available on arXiv.

•  I’m pleased to share that we have submitted our paper titled "Public Key Infrastructure for UAVs over 5G NR Sidelink in the Post-Quantum Era" to the 17th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference. This work is in collaboration with Gökcan Cantali, Dina Abdelhadi, Gürkan Gür, Saleh Darzi, and Attila Altay Yavuz.

•  I’m pleased to share that we have submitted our paper titled "Quantum-Safe Orbital Data Centers and AI: Use Cases, Challenges, and Research Directions" to the special issue on Orbital Edge: Data Centers in Space. This work is in collaboration with Gökcan Cantali, Dina Abdelhadi, Gürkan Gür, Saleh Darzi, and Attila Altay Yavuz.

•  I’m pleased to share that I have submitted my paper titled "Authentication Against Insecure Bootstrapping for 5G Networks: Feasibility, Resiliency, and Transitional Solutions in Post-Quantum Era" to the Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal and now is available on Arxiv.

•  I’m pleased to announce that I will be delivering my Major Area Presentation on November 10th, 2025, titled "Post-Quantum Secure Authentication and Privacy-Preserving Frameworks for Next-Generation Wireless Networks."

•  I’m pleased to share that my paper titled "QPADL: Post-Quantum Private Spectrum Access with Verified Location and DoS Resilience" has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal. The preprint is available on arXiv.

•   I was invited to present our selected patent, "A System and Method for Privacy-Preserving and Post-Quantum Secure Counter Denial of Service for Spectrum Management in Next-Generation Wireless Networks," at the Innovation Match: Become the Founder of a USF Spinout event, hosted by USF Technology Transfer.

Conferences

Journals

Patents

E-Prints & Manuscripts Under Review

• •   Graduate Research Assistant & Associate, University of South Florida — Applied Cryptography Research Laboratory (Dec 2021 – Present)
  Lead researcher and security-framework designer across NSF- and industry-funded projects (NSF–SNSF SATUQ, NSF SaTC Medium, NSF CAREER, and a Cisco Research Award), designing and benchmarking post-quantum authentication, privacy-preserving protocols, and spectrum access systems for 5G/6G, IoT, and hybrid satellite–terrestrial networks.
• •   Instructor & Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of South Florida & K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Jan 2019 – Present)
  Lectured on post-quantum, lattice-based, and elliptic-curve cryptography, and built the hands-on lab track in C/C++ and Python for courses including Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving Systems, Penetration Testing, and Computer Logic Design Lab.
• •   System Administrator & Technical Support, Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing, USF (Apr 2024 – Jan 2025)
  Deployed Rapid7 agents across Windows, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and macOS, automated CIS Level 1 & 2 compliance with Ansible, and administered the GAIVI GPU cluster alongside a Grafana monitoring dashboard.
• •   Graduate Research Assistant, K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Jan 2019 – Dec 2021)
  Research investigator on the National Smart Metering Program (Iran), designing lattice-based privacy-preserving data aggregation (LPM2DA) and post-quantum signature schemes for smart grids.

•   Teaching Assistant in Computer Logic Design Lab (Fall 2026)

•   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)

Program Committee & Chair Roles

•  Publication Chair of the ACM CCS Workshop on Quantum-Resistant Cryptography and Security (QRSEC 2025), part of the ACM CCS 2025 Organizing Committee, Taipei, Taiwan.

•  Program Committee Member of the IEEE Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC 2025 and SVCC 2026).

Reviewer Roles

•  Reviewer for ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2025).

•  Reviewer for USENIX Security Symposium (2025, 2026).

•  Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).

•  Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).

•  Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys.

•  Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

•  Reviewer for Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).

•  Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal.

•  Reviewer for Journal of Information Security and Applications.

•  Reviewer for Cluster Computing Journal.

•  Reviewer for Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

Invited Talks & Presentations

•  Presented research papers at major venues including IEEE MILCOM 2024, SVCC 2025, and IEEE TPS-ISA 2024.

•  Delivered an invited talk on patent work at Innovation Match: Become the Founder of a USF Spinout, hosted by USF Technology Transfer Office.

•  Presented Trustworthy AI Systems Through Lenses of Post-Quantum Security and Privacy-Enhancing Techniques at CyberBay 2025, Tampa, Florida.

Awards & Grants

•  Recipient of multiple NSF Travel Grants for participation in MILCOM and IEEE TPS-ISA.

•  Received USF Research and Travel Support Grants for international conferences and collaborative NSF projects.

Open-Source Contributions

•  Developer and maintainer of several open-source cryptography repositories on GitHub, including:

– BORG-Scheme: Post-quantum authentication for 5G and IoT systems.

– GPU-Multiserver-PIR-PuzzleGen: GPU-accelerated private information retrieval and proof-of-work generation.

Professional Memberships

•  Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

•  Member, IEEE Communications Society.

•  Member, IEEE Young Professionals.

•  Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Email: salehdarzi@usf.edu

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

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