Dr Behzad Abdolmaleki

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group at the University of Sheffield, UK. My research broadly focuses on the construction of cryptographic schemes in Post-Quantum and Quantum settings, as well as their intersections with other disciplines, including Zero-Knowledge proofs, Cryptocurrencies, and Secure, Transparent AI and ML systems.

Selected publications

• Ahmadi MS, Eghlidos T, Abdolmaleki B & Nguyen NK (2025) A Lattice-based Designated Verifier zkSNARK from Standard Assumptions.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 2099-2099.
• Abdolmaleki B, Campanelli M, Dao Q & Khoshakhlagh H (2025) On the Simulation-Extractability of Proof-Carrying Data.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 2037-2037.
• Abdolmaleki B, Clark J, Foroutani M, Khazaei S & Nasirzadeh S (2025) A Generic Framework for Practical Lattice-Based Non-interactive Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 901-901.
• Abdolmaleki B, Baecker R, Gerhart P, Graf M, Khalili M, Rausch D & Schröder D (2025) Universally Composable Password-Hardened Encryption.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025, 1647-1647.
• Abdolmaleki B, Blümel H, Dai T, Fenzi G, Khajeh H, Köpsell S & Zarezadeh M (2025) Post-Quantum Access Control with Application to Secure Data Retrieval.. IACR Commun. Cryptol., 2, 20-20.
• Abdolmaleki B, Fauzi P, Krips T & Siim J (2024) Shuffle Arguments Based on Subset-Checking.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1056-1056.
• Abdolmaleki B, Blümel H, Fenzi G, Khajeh H, Köpsell S & Zarezadeh M (2024) Post-Quantum Access Control with Application to Secure Data Retrieval.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1160-1160.
• Rabaninejad R, Abdolmaleki B, Ramacher S, Slamanig D & Michalas A (2024) Attribute-Based Threshold Issuance Anonymous Counting Tokens and Its Application to Sybil-Resistant Self-Sovereign Identity.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024, 1024-1024.
• Abdolmaleki B, Chevalier C, Ebrahimi E, Malavolta G & Vu Q-H (2024) On Quantum Simulation-Soundness.. IACR Commun. Cryptol., 1, 18-18.
• Abdolmaleki B, Glaeser N, Ramacher S & Slamanig D (2023) Universally Composable NIZKs: Circuit-Succinct, Non-Malleable and CRS-Updatable.. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023, 97-97.