About
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the INET research group at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, working under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Schmid. I am also an associated researcher with PLAMADISO research group at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.
Previously I was a researcher at the University of Vienna and completed research internships at IST Austria and CUHK Hong Kong. I got my B.Sc. from the Sharif University of Technology.
I am interested in algorithm design and analysis with applications in networks, distributed systems, and blockchains. My particular focus is on self-adjusting networks.
Publications
Self-adjusting Data Structures:
SeedTree: A Dynamically Optimal and Local Self-Adjusting Tree
with Chen Avin, Robert Sama, and Stefan Schmid
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’23).
Paper, Citation
Self-Adjusting Partially Ordered Lists
with Vamsi Addanki, Maciej Pacut, Gabor Retvari, Stefan Schmid, and Juan Vanerio
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’23).
Paper, Citation
Traffic Engineering:
The Augmentation-Speed Tradeoff for Consistent Network Updates
with Monika Henzinger, Ami Paz, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR’22).
Paper, Slides, Citation
Software-Defined Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Theory to End-to-End Implementation
with Christos Liaskos, Lefteris Mamatas, Atsioli Tsioliaridou, Sotiris Ioannidis, Andreas Pitsillides, Stefan Schmid, and Ian F. Akyildiz
Proceedings of the IEEE (PIEEE’22).
Paper, Citation
Blockchain:
DecentPeeR: A Self-Incentivised & Inclusive Decentralized Peer Review System
with Johannes Gründler, Darya Melnyk, Stefan Schmid
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC’24).
Paper, [Poster]
Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain
with Krishnendu Chatterjee and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC’19).
Paper, Slides, Video, Citation
Hybrid Mining: Exploiting Blockchain`s Computational Power for Distributed Problem Solving
with Krishnendu Chatterjee and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’19).
Paper, Slides, Citation
Distributed Systems:
Polynomial-Time Fence Insertion for Structured Programs
with Mohammad Taheri and Mohsen Lesani
International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC’19).
Paper, Slides, Citation
Talks
(Upcoimg) Dagstuhl Seminar: Discrete Algorithms on Modern and Emerging Compute Infrastructure
Dutch Seminar on Optimization
Freie Universität Berlin
Winter Seminar Series at Sharif University
INFOCOM’23, SOSR’22, SAC’19
Teaching Assitance:
TU Berlin, Germany, 2021-Now
Algorithms for Networked Systems
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Networks Seminar
Blockchain Foundations
Network Protocols and Architectures
Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2016-2019
Data Structures and Algorithms,
Algorithmic Game Theory
Algorithms Design and Analysis
Reviewer:
PODC (Junior PC), SIROCCO, ACM Computing Surveys, ITU J-FET on Intelligent Surfaces
Alumni:
I am honored to have been working with following students in the past few years.
Undergraduate Research Interns
Helia Yazdanyar (2023-24, TU Berlin) -> Masters at University of Waterloo
Bahar Oveisgharan (2023-24, TU Berlin)
Maryam Shiran (2023-24, TU Berlin)
Dorsa Majdi (2022-23, TU Berlin)
Esra Ceylan (2022, University of Vienna) -> Masters at TU Wien
Marzieh Aliakbarpour (2021-2022, University of Vienna)
Siddhesh Kalekar (2021, University of Vienna)
Loric André (2021, University of Vienna)
Thesis supervision
Qingyun Ji (Bachelor and Master thesis, 2022 and 2024) -> IBM
Johannes Gründler (Bachelor thesis, 2023) -> Masters at University of Vienna