Publications

Following the convention in theoretical computer science and cryptography, authors of my cryptography papers are listed alphabetically.

Manuscripts Under Review

Manuscript

Randomized Early-Stopping Byzantine Agreement with Applications to Round-Efficient MPC

Michele Ciampi, Pouyan Forghani, Yun Lu, and Vassilis Zikas
Manuscript, 2026

2026

TCC 2026

On the Round Complexity of Dishonest-Majority MPC

Ran Cohen, Daniel Collins, Pouyan Forghani, Juan Garay, and Vassilis Zikas
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2026) (to appear)
JoC

Universally Composable Almost-Everywhere Secure Computation

Nishanth Chandran, Pouyan Forghani, Juan Garay, Rafail Ostrovsky, Rutvik Patel, and Vassilis Zikas
Journal of Cryptology, 39(1), 2026
Preliminary version in the 3rd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2022).

2025

TCC 2025

Is It Even Possible? On the Parallel Composition of Asynchronous MPC Protocols

Ran Cohen, Pouyan Forghani, Juan Garay, Rutvik Patel, and Vassilis Zikas
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2025), 2025

2023

TCC 2023

Concurrent Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement in Expected-Constant Rounds, Revisited

Ran Cohen, Pouyan Forghani, Juan Garay, Rutvik Patel, and Vassilis Zikas
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2023), 2023

2020

IET Comm.

PolarSig: An Efficient Digital Signature Based on Polar Codes

Pouyan Forghani, Masoumeh Koochak Shooshtari, and Mohammad Reza Aref
IET Communications, 14(17), 2020

2018

IST 2018

An Efficient Secure Scheme for Lossy and Lossless Data Aggregation in Smart Grid

Roozbeh Sarenche, Pouyan Forghani, Mohammad Hassan Ameri, Mohammad Reza Aref, and Mahmoud Salmasizadeh
9th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST 2018), 2018