About

I am a fourth year Computer Science PhD student at Cornell University. I am based at the Cornell Tech campus in NYC and advised by Tom Ristenpart. My research interests lie in security and applied cryptography. In particular, I am interested in building end-to-end encrypted systems with strong security and privacy guarantees, while balancing resistance to abuse with user agency. I use he/him pronouns.

Contact

email: armin “at” cs “dot” cornell “dot” edu

Publications

• Increasing Adversarial Uncertainty to Scale Private Similarity Testing
  Yiqing Hua, Armin Namavari, Kaishuo Cheng, Mor Naaman, Thomas Ristenpart
  USENIX Security 2022
• Searching Encrypted Data with Size-Locked Indexes
  Min Xu, Armin Namavari, David Cash, Thomas Ristenpart
  USENIX Security 2021

Conference and Workshop Talks

• Increasing Adversarial Uncertainty to Scale Private Similarity Testing at USENIX Security 2022 in Boston, MA
• Building Governance for E2EE Online Communities at the Trust and Safety Research Conference in Stanford, CA

Awards and Honors

• Meta Research Fellowship Honorable Mention (2023)
• Digital LIfe Initiative Doctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
• Tau Beta Pi
• Phi Beta Kappa