Tariq Elahi
Assistant ProfessorSchool of Informatics University of EdinburghOffice: IF404.A10 Crichton StEdinburgh, UKEH8 9ABEmail: t.elahi[at]ed.ac.ukSkype: tariq[dot]eeTel: +44 131 651 3257
News
Our paper about website fingerprinting over satellite links accepted at SpaceSec24@NDSS.
Our paper on securing anonymous communications systems with toplogical enginnering accepted at ACSAC'22.
Awarded a National Research Centre Grant (£8.6M) to work on Protecting Citizens Online! As Co-I of this new Centre, I will be leading projects to research and develop Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) that scale while mitigating their misuse by adversaries.
Secured New Investigator Award to investigate "Feedback and Optimisation for Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks".
Hiring
I am currently hiring recruiting PhD students in Privacy and Security. Some exempler project themes:
Security and Privacy of Satellite Networks
Integration & Interopreability of PETs in large scale systems (e.g. E2EE messaging platforms)
Secure and Private Machine Learning/AI for Decision and Communiucation Systems
Automated Control and Adaption for Well-behaved Anonymous and Private Communication Networks
Censorship Resistance and Information Controls
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I am a faculty member of the Security, Privacy, and Trust group (SecPrivTru) and the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) and an affiliate member of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA). [Bio]
Current and Planned Research
Secure and Private Satellite Communcations
Traffic analysis attacks, Novel meta-data protecting routing schemes
Anonymous Communication & Censorship Resistance
Tor, Mixnets, and ML-assisted Traffic Analysis & Obfuscation
Data-Driven Privacy Systems Engineering
Privacy-preserving modelling, Private Data Analysis, and ML for Feedback Control and Optimisation
Embedding Privacy into the Infrastructure
Tor and Mixnets at the Network Layer, Anonymity for Blockchains, and Privacy in IoT
See [Research] and [Publications] for more information.
Teaching
INFR10067: Computer Security (Sem 2 2021-23, Sem 1 2024) [course info]
INFR11188: Research Methods in Security, Privacy, and Trust (Sem 1 2019, 2020) [course info]