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Behrouz Zolfaghari
Visiting Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Software Engineering

Behrouz Zolfaghari, Ph.D.

Contact Info

513-529-0517
McVey Data Science Building 387

Biography

Before joining the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University, Behrouz Zolfaghari has been working at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University as a Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor in May 2023. He has served three postdoctoral fellowships at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, the University of Guelph, Canada, and Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. His research area includes Information-Theoretic Cryptography, Hardware-Assisted Cryptography, and AI-Assisted Cryptography.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Engineering (Major), Hardware Design (Minor), AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Honors and Awards

  1. His book (mentioned below) has been selected (by BookAuthority) as the best book of all time, in the world (in the area of cryptographic hardware).
    B. Zolfaghari, K. Bibak, H. R. Nemati, T. Koshiba, and P. Mitra, Statistical Trend Analysis on Physically Unclonable Functions: An Approach via TextMining. CRC Press, April 2021
  2. He has won the ScienceFather "Best Researcher Award" (February 2023).

Selected Publications

  • B. Zolfaghari and K. Bibak, Perfect Secrecy in IoT: AHybrid Combinatorial-Boolean Approach. Springer, August 2022.
  • B. Zolfaghari, K. Bibak, and T. Koshiba, "From random numbers to random objects," Entropy, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1-33, 2022.
  • K. Bibak and B. Zolfaghari, "The modular subset-sum problem and the size of deletion correcting codes," Designs, Codes and Cryptography, vol. 90, p. 1721-1734, 2022.
  • K. Bibak, R. Ritchie, and B. Zolfaghari, "Everlasting security of quantum key distribution with 1kdwcdm and quadratic hash," Quantum Information and Computing, vol. 21, no. 3&4, pp. 181-202, 2021.
  • B. Zolfaghari, V. Singh, S. Reddy, B. K. Rai, K. Bibak, and A. Dehghantanha, "Lower bounds on bandwidth requirements of regenerating code parameter scaling in distributed storage systems," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1477-1481, 2021.
  • B. Zolfaghari, G. Srivastava, S. Roy, H. R. Nemati, F. Afghah, T. Koshiba, A. Razi, K. Bibak, P. Mitra, and B. K. Rai, "Content delivery networks: The state of the art, trends and the future roadmap," ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 1-34, 2020.

Membership

  • Invited ACM Member

Hobbies

  • History
  • Poetry
  • Hiking
  • Tourism