6G Security Intern, Nokia Bell Labs (Cambridge), Supervisors: Clifton Fernandes, and Christian Mannweiler (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, Journal of Information Security and Applications, IEEE S&P 2025 (ext.), MDPI Sensors, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, Cluster Computing, MDPI Mathematics, SN Computer Science

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