My full name is Mohammadamin Karbasforushan.

I’m currently a CSE Ph.D. student at U.C. Santa Cruz, where under the advisement of Prof. Ioannis Demertzis, I study Applied Cryptography. Currently I’m working on oblivious computing and searchable encryption. Previously, I:

• Did a research internship at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, where I worked toward gathering Certificate Transparency Logs’ data for further analysis;
• Was a data infrastructure engineer at CafeBazaar Cloud (now called Sotoon): our team 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;
• Did a Data Engineering summer internship at Sahab Pardaz after the first year of my bachelor’s, where we deveolped a practice web search engine; And,
• Collaborated with Dr. Shahin Rouhani of Sharif University of Technology as a Machine Learning Engineer.

I’m originally from Tehran, Iran, where I got my bachelor’s degree in CS from Sharif University of Technology.

Interests:

• Applied Cryptography: Searchable Encryption, ORAMs, etc.;
• Operating Systems: scheduling, security, kernels, firmwares, virtualization, containerization, etc.;
• Architecture: accelerators, hardware-software co-design, SoCs;
• File Systems and Storage: general-purpose or domain-specific;
• Distributed Computing: storage systems, cloud computing, scheduling, databases, application-specific accelerators (ex. distributed machine-learning), etc.

Generally speaking, I’m a systems engineer. I’m also interested in Computer Networks, Security, and combinations of this long list, like resource disaggregation.