Hi! I am Khodakhast Bibak, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (September 2017 – August 2018) in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (May-August 2017) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, from where I also received my PhD (April 2017) under the supervision of Professor Bruce Kapron and Professor Venkatesh Srinivasan. Prior to that, I obtained a Master of Mathematics degree (April 2013) at the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo, where I was also a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR).

Research Interests

Cybersecurity, Applied Cryptography, Quantum Information Science (QIS), Artificial Intelligence, and the related areas.