Mahnush Movahedi
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, USA. I received my Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Information Technology from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran. I am interested in randomized algorithms, game theory, distributed systems, computer networks, and security.
I am currently working as a research assistant under supervision of Prof. Jared Saia. Generally speaking, we are working on scalable distributed algorithms such as secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and secret sharing. You can read more about our work in the following publications:
- Varsha Dani, Valerie King, Mahnush Movahedi, and Jared Saia, "Quorums Quicken Queries: Efficient Asynchronous Secure Multiparty Computation", Under Submission. PDF
- Varsha Dani, Valerie King, Mahnush Movahedi, and Jared Saia, "Brief Announcement:
Breaking the O(nm) Bit Barrier: Secure Multiparty Computation with a Static Adversary", in Principles of
Distributed Computing (PODC), 2012. ACM, arXiv (full paper)
- Varsha Dani, Mahnush Movahedi, Yamel Rodriguez, and Jared Saia, "Scalable Rational Secret Sharing", in Principles of
Distributed Computing (PODC), 2012. ACM, arXiv
I am also working on a scalable anonymous protocol based on our MPC scheme with Mahdi Zamani and Jared Saia:
- Mahdi Zamani, Jared Saia, Mahnush Movahedi, and Joud Khoury, "Towards Provably-Secure Scalable Anonymous Broadcast", 3rd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI'13), Washington, DC, USA, 2013. PDF
I presented our scalable MPC idea in MIT and Brown in November 2012. (slides)
I also presented our both papers on MPC in a MURI meeting in GMU in June 2012. (slides)
In 2012, I was awarded the (ISC)2 Foundation Information Security Scholarship.
My curriculum vitae is here.
Contact me at movahedi at cs.unm.edu