Academic Mentor, Department of Information Security, Royal Holloway University of London, (October 2025 - September 2026)

• Guiding MSc Information Security students in research design, understanding industry challenges, growing professionally, and academic development.

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

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

Research Intern, University of Melbourne, Advisor: Toby Murray, Mentor: Mohammad M. Ahmadpanah (September 2021 - May 2022)

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

Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Mentor: Karen Gravett (January - December 2025)

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

• Thesis: Trust and Threshold 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, MDPI Mathematics, SN Computer Science, ACM CSAE 2023-25

Member   Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), and International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)

FHE Book [Webpage] [PDF]   Improved the contents of TFHE, BFV, CKKS, and BGV schemes, and fixed the errors and issues.

Ringtail [Source Code]   Implemented threshold signatures in Python, porting the two-round Module-LWE-based (t,n)-threshold protocol from Go.

Connected Places Catapult [Webpage]   Provided educational consultation to Cybersecurity and Operational Modelling in Transport project, funded by Innovate UK.

Abapour, N., Goharshady, K., Dragan, C., & Mahdavi, M. (2025). Blockchain-based Economic Voting with Posterior Security from Lattices. IWSEC 2025.

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

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, 6629449.

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

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

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

Lab Assistant of Information Security Management 2025/26 (COM3017) by Catalin Dragan

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

Lab Assistant of Cloud Computing 2024/25, and 2025/26 (COM2040) by Andrew Crossan

Map 26BB03 Research Office, Alan Turing Building, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom

Email: n.abapour@surrey.ac.uk