This event will be held virtually.
Speaker: Artin Sedighi, ECpE Graduate Student
Advisor: Thomas Daniels
Title: T-PKI: a Signature Scheme based on Public Key Infrastructure with Many Unlinkable Public Keys
Abstract: This research focuses on a family of problems where peer-to-peer transactions need to stay anonymized in a shared open platform such as a public blockchain or commerce sites such as eBay. This anonymization is meant to preserve the identity of the participants and prevent information leakage as a result. The publicly available platform can be used and accessed by several users, and potentially rogue actors. The leakage of information may lead to privacy violation or disclosure of confidential information, and thus needs to be protected. This research aims to consider the solution set that can solve the deanonymization of participants in peer-to-peer networks. The solution will reduce the digital footprint of a set of transactions by creating a model where each transaction is separate and distinct, yet providing a mechanism for the participants to keep track of the transactions efficiently and predictably. This would prevent an eavesdropper from relating the transactions to each other or the participants. The solution should also allow for terms of the transaction (transaction data) to be retrievable at a later point in time for dispute resolution.
Bio: Dr. Sedighi is a Wall Street Technology Executive with over 20 years of experience planning, designing, developing and having end-to-end ownership of large enterprise-wide solutions for Financial Services Industry world-wide. He is currently a software engineer at Microsoft focusing in areas of Security, High Performance Computing and Cloud-native architecture.
Before Microsoft, he managed cross-functional teams that specialize and are responsible for driving adoption strategy across the enterprise for high-profile IT projects for numerous organizations on Wall St.
He was the founder and CTO of a dense-computing systems company, which was acquired by Univa in 2008. Dr. Sedighi held the Global Head of HPC and Grid Engineering at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. He then moved to Morgan Stanley, where he was focused on design and implementation of the Target State Architecture (TSA) for the Bank. He led the engineering team at Noble Markets where he ran product development and engineering for an FX real-time clearing infrastructure based on the Blockchain technology. He has designed and implemented trading and exchange platforms for the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the American Stock Exchange. His focus areas are Financial and Regulatory Technology and its implications and impact on the Global Financial Markets, and behavioral economics vis-a-vis impacts in large shared infrastructures such as Cloud and Blockchain.
Dr. Sedighi received his first PhD from Texas Tech University in Systems Engineering, holds a Masters in Bioinformatics from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Art lives on Long Island, NY with his wife Irina, and three sons: Isaac (10), Benjamin (8) and Asher (3).
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Recording: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/ldr.php?RCID=d3eec05a58a54d2387bca05eb7541e13