Research
Topics
My research sits at the intersection of AI systems, security, and privacy. I work on making AI systems trustworthy — private, robust, auditable, and safely deployable in real-world edge and cloud environments.
Research Interests
Trustworthy AI Systems, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, LLM Robustness, AI Agents, Trusted Execution Environments, Confidential Computing, Anomaly Detection, Edge Computing
Postdoctoral Research
Trustworthy AI Systems
January ‘25 – Present
As a Postdoctoral Researcher at Imperial College London, I work on a coherent line of research around trustworthy AI:
- Model privacy: membership-inference risk mitigation for deployed ML models
- LLM robustness: prompt-leakage and jailbreak resilience
- Agent execution: confidential/protected execution for LLM agents on edge devices
- Agent memory: privacy-aware memory and enforced erasure for agentic AI
- Private agent interaction: privacy-preserving protocols for agent negotiation
- Verifiable execution: compound attestation and trusted infrastructure for AI workloads
Ph.D. Project
Efficient Anomaly Detection and Optimization in Edge Clouds
January ‘20 – February ‘24
My Ph.D. research at Umeå University focused on anomaly detection and optimization for edge computing environments. I developed methods to enhance resource efficiency and address edge clouds challenges for anomaly detection using advanced machine learning techniques, including transfer leanring, knowledge distillation, and deep neural networks.
M.Sc. Project
Improving Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Deep Learning
September ‘17 – September ‘19
The research focused on developing novel deep neural network models to address challenges of credit card fraud detection, mostly based on deep sequential models.
B.Sc. Project
Analysis of Clustering Algorithms for Streaming Data
September ‘11 – September ‘16
The research evaluated clustering algorithms for handling high-dimensional streaming data, emphasizing scalability and adaptability to real-time data processing scenarios.
Honors & Awards
| Year | Award | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship — Securing the Next Billion Consumer Devices on the Edge | Imperial College London |
| 2023 | WASP International Research Visit Grant — 150,000 SEK | Imperial College London |
| 2021 | WASP Cluster Leader — Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems | Wallenberg AI Program |
| 2019 | Department Rank #1 — Computer Engineering and IT, GPA 19.14/20 | Amirkabir University |
| 2019 | Direct Ph.D. Nomination — nominated directly without M.Sc. defence | Amirkabir University |
| 2018 | Erasmus Scholarship — University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France | Erasmus Programme |
| 2017 | Top 0.3% — M.Sc. national entrance exam | Iran |
| 2011 | Top 0.1% — B.Sc. national entrance exam | Iran |