Mohammad Hassan Ameri Ekhtiarabadi

Graduate Student

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Joined department: Spring 2019

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Purdue University, working under the supervision of Jeremiah Blocki. My research lies at the intersection of applied cryptography, privacy-preserving computation, and theoretical computer science. I am broadly interested in designing and analyzing cryptographic primitives and protocols that offer provable security guarantees while remaining efficient and practical. My work explores a range of foundational and applied topics including secure multi-party computation, memory-hard functions (MHFs), obfuscation, searchable encryption, and secure cloud computing. A recurring theme in my research is understanding how to formalize and protect privacy, usability, and computational fairness in real-world systems through rigorous mathematical proofs. Recent publications have advanced our understanding of conditional encryption for password typo correction, provably memory-hard puzzles and computationally data independent memory-hard functions—contributing to both the theoretical and practical aspects of modern cryptography.

Selected Publications