Aydin Abadi

About

Dr Aydin Abadi is a Lecturer in Cybersecurity at Newcastle University's School of Computing, where he leads the Cryptography and AI Security Lab. His research focuses on developing cryptographic and privacy-preserving technologies for AI, blockchain, financial technology, and trustworthy digital systems. He works on privacy-preserving federated learning, secure multi-party computation, private set intersection, and post-quantum cryptography. His work has been recognized with awards including the UK-US Privacy Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenge in 2023.

Education

• PhD in Secure Multi-Party Computation, University of Strathclyde
• MSc in Computer Science, University of Leeds
• BSc in Software Engineering, University of Lahijan

Selected publications

• Efficient Delegated Private Set Intersection on Outsourced Private Datasets
• Time-Delayed Publicly Verifiable Quantum Computation with Classical Verifiers
• Privacy-Preserving Data Deduplication for Enhancing Federated Learning of Language Models
• Timed Secret Sharing
• Byzantine Discrepancy Attacks against Calendar, Set-intersection and Nations