Amin Karbas

Amin Karbas

Ph.D. Student

Computer Science and Engineering Department

Baskin School of Engineering

University of California Santa Cruz

Biography

My full name is Mohammadamin Karbasforushan, but I go by Amin Karbas.

Advised by Prof. Ioannis Demertzis, I study Applied Cryptography and Security. I’m currently working on Oblivious Computing and Encrypted Databases and Systems. See below or my CV for more.

Interests

  • Applied Cryptography and Security

    • Oblivious Computating
    • Encrypted Databases and Systems

  • Systems

    • Disaggregated Computing
    • Near-Data Computation
    • Accelerators and SoCs
Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering

    U.C. Santa Cruz

  • B.Sc., Computer Science, 2021

    Sharif University of Technology

Publications

Full list - Google Scholar page

(2022). Dynamic Searchable Encryption with Optimal Search in the Presence of Deletions. USENIX Security.

PDF Cite Code USENIX Full Version (EPrint) Slides (PPTX) Slides (PDF)

Experience

For more details see my CV

 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 Saarbrücken, Germany (remote)
  • Investigated the impact of changes in user-agents’ TLS certificate lifetime requirements using data gathered from Certificate Transparency Logs
 
 
 
 
 
Data Infrastructure Engineer
Sotoon (CafeBazaar Cloud)
Jul 2018 – May 2021 Tehran, Iran
  • Provided the platform to transfer, store, and analyze big data at petabyte scale for multiple user-facing apps with 84M+ active users across Android, iOS, and web
  • Set up and/or maintained Apache {Druid, Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Zeppelin, ZooKeeper} and M3DB clusters and services
  • Developed Kubernetes operators to manage Apache {Kafka, Hadoop, ZooKeeper} clusters in a Platform as a Service environment
 
 
 
 
 
Machine Learning Engineer
GojeSabz Big Data
Feb 2018 – Sep 2019 Tehran, Iran
  • Built a deep learning-based Farsi text Object Character Recognition (OCR) pipeline

Professional Service

External reviewer for SIGMOD ‘24, CCS ‘23, SIGMOD ‘23, FCS (IEEE CSF) ‘22

Teaching Experience