Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Mentor: Karen Gravett (January 2025 - 2026)

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science Research Centre, University of Surrey, Supervisors: Catalin Dragan, and Ioana Boureanu (October 2023 - 2027)

• Thesis: Trust and Privacy in Post-quantum Electronic Voting

Research Intern, University of Melbourne, Supervisor: Toby Murray, Advisor: Mohammad M. Ahmadpanah (September 2021 - May 2021)

• Project: Developing the Advanced Information Flow Security Concurrent Separation Logic [Prototype] [Source Code]

Honours B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Supervisor: Reza Hooshmandasl (September 2018 - 2022)

• Undergraduate Project: Decentralized Lattice-based Method for Visual Symmetric Encryption

Reviewer   IEEE S&P 2025 (ext.), MDPI Sensors, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, Cluster Computing, SN Computer Science, ACM CSAE 2023

Member   Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, IEEE: Information Theory Society, ACM: Security, Audit and Control Group, International Association for Cryptologic Research

Mahdavi, M., Abapour, N., & Ahmadian, Z. (2024). Trustworthy Approaches to RSA: Efficient Exploitation Strategies Based on Common Modulus. In 2024 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2024) (pp. 2535-2540).

Abapour, N., & Ebadpour, M. (2023). PiouCrypt: Decentralized lattice-based method for visual symmetric cryptography. Franklin Open, 3, 100018.

Soleymani, M., Abapour, N., Taghizadeh, E., Siadat, S., & Karkehabadi, R. (2021). Fuzzy rule-based trust management model for the security of cloud computing. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, Article 6629449.

Lab Instructor of C++ and Object-oriented Design 2023/24, and 2024/25 (EEE2047) by Simon Hadfield

Lab Instructor of Computer Security 2024/25 (COM2041) by Sasa Radomirovic, and Yangguang (Jack) Tian

Mentor and Lab Instructor of Advanced Challenges in Web Technologies 2023/24 (COM3014) by Nishanth Sastry

Lab Instructor of Further Programming Paradigms 2024/25 (COM2040) by Santanu Dash

Lab Instructor of Cloud Computing 2024/25 (COM2040) by Andrew Crossan

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Email: n.abapour@surrey.ac.uk