Visiting Researcher, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, Host: Amir Goharshady (June - September 2025)

• Project: Post-quantum Electronic Voting Protocols on the Programmable Blockchains

Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, 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

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

• Undergraduate Project: A Review on Elliptic Curves Applications in Cryptography

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, International Association for Cryptologic Research, IEEE: Information Theory Society

Mahdavi, M., Abapour, N., & Ahmadian, Z. (2024). Trustworthy Approaches to RSA: Efficient Exploitation Strategies Based on Common Modulus. 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