6G Security Intern, Nokia Bell Labs (Cambridge), Supervisors: Clifton Fernandes, and Matthew Baker (July - October 2026)

• (I) Evaluating post-quantum standards for non-terrestrial networks in 6G technology. (II) Implementing agentic threat detection in 6G satellite connectivity.

Academic Mentor, Department of Information Security, Royal Holloway University of London (October 2025 - June 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

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: Post-quantum Cryptography and Threshold Privacy Applications

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 TDSC, ACM ToCT, Journal of Information Security and Applications, IEEE S&P 2025 (ext.)

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

Lattice Estimator [Source Code]   Implementing new attacks (e.g.Large Norm), and improving efficiency of estimating the concrete security of LWE variants.

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

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

Abapour, N. (2026). Sharper and Closed-Form Attacks on SIS When the Modulus Is Small. IACR Communications in Cryptology.

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 Cyber Security Management and Governance 2025/26 (COMM078) by Rizwan Asghar

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

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 Tian

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

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

Map Broers Building, 21 J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, United Kingdom

Email: navid.abapour@nokia.com, n.abapour@surrey.ac.uk