About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Telecommunication Engineering at the biometrics and data pattern analytics lab (BidaLab), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in computer vision using deep learning and corresponding threats. In particular, the security and privacy concerns that need to be addressed for a safe use of artificial intelligence.

BACKGROUND

I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from the Islamic Azad University, in Iran, in 2011, and my M.S. in Informtion Security and Assurance in 2016. Since 2021, I've been working on biometrics using computer vision, and deep learning with a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship in the EU ITN research program PriMa. Throughout my doctoral research, I specialized in machine learning where I investigated state-of-the-art computer vision problems including adversarial examples, image morphing, and federated learning on deep neural networks and I published my findings in prestigious venues.

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Selected Publications

Toward Face Biometric De-identification using Adversarial Examples

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OTB-morph: One-Time Biometrics via Morphing

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SaFL: Sybil-aware Federated Learning with Application to Face Recognition

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A Thorough Trust and Reputation Based RBAC Model for Secure Data Storage in the Cloud

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Updates

  • Dec 2023: Accepted Paper! Optimizing Key-Selection for Face-Based One-Time Biometrics via Morphing at WIFS2023 (Access here)
  • Oct 2023: Speaking at the Biometric Institute Congress 2023
  • Aug 2023: Blog post: Explainability and its Role to Provide Benevolent Artificial Intelligence (Read here)
  • Jul 2023: Attending Cambridge Ellis Unit Summer School on Probabilistic Machine Learning 2023 at the University of Cambridge
  • Jun 2023: Paper accepted! Toward Face Biometric De-identification using Adversarial Examples at Compsac2023
  • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023: Visiting researcher at competence center Smart Living & Biometric Technologies, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
  • Feb 2023: Paper accepted! Toward Face Biometric De-identification using Adversarial Examples at AAAI2023 workshops (See here)
  • Sep 2022: Presenting OTB-Morph at EAB RPC 2022 concurrent with BioSig 2022
  • Jun 2022: Paper accepted! Extended abstrat OTB-Morph at CVPR 2022 workshops (See here)
  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022: Visiting researcher at Data management & Biometrics (DMB) group, University of Twente, Netherlands
  • May 2022: Blog post: When privacy faces the security on the battlefield (Read here)
  • Jan 2022: Paper accepted! OTB-morph: One-Time Biometrics via Morphing applied to Face Templates at WACV2022 - Workshop on Manipulation, Adversarial, and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics (Watch here)
  • Feb 2021: Accepted to Universidad Autonoma de Madrid withing EU ITM project PriMa