Navid Nasr Esfahani, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

cryptography security and privacy information theoretic security secure distributed storage threshold cryptography resilient networks combinatorial cryptography combinatorics

Latest funding

Information-Theoretically Secure Distributed Systems
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$12,500

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Information-Theoretically Secure Distributed Systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Nasr Esfahani, Navid

Keywords: cryptography; security and privacy; information theoretic security; secure distributed storage; threshold cryptography; resilient networks; combinatorial cryptography; combinatorics; usability and ux in security and privacy

$12,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: cryptography Dear Professor Nasr Esfahani, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on cryptography connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Information-Theoretically Secure Distributed Systems" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]