Experience

Eighteen years across industry, national labs, and academia in five countries, building privacy-preserving cryptographic systems from research papers to silicon.

1. 2022

   Principal Investigator & Senior Scientist, Cryptography

   Duality Technologies

   Hoboken, NJ, USA · Sep 2022 to Present
   Lead researcher on privacy-preserving technologies and Technical PI for DARPA's DPRIVE program. Architect of encrypted ML/LLM inference pipelines (BERT, GPT-2, LLaMA-3); core builder of OpenFHE and lead author of OpenFHE-NumPy.

2. 2021

   Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity & Data Analytics

   Rabdan Academy

   Abu Dhabi, UAE · Sep 2021 to Aug 2022
   Taught undergraduate cryptography, network security, and incident response; led research on post-quantum cryptography and ML for cybersecurity. Mentored the first student team to Rabdan Academy's inaugural conference trip.

3. 2021

   Cryptography Consultant

   Duality Technologies

   Remote · Jul 2021 to Aug 2022
   Served as Co-PI on DARPA DPRIVE, translating cryptographic constraints into ASIC specifications. Engineered FHE bootstrapping for integer schemes and fixed-point packed encodings in PALISADE, enabling floating-point ML on integer-FHE.

4. 2019

   Privacy Consultant

   Inferati Inc.

   Seattle, WA, USA · Oct 2019 to Feb 2022
   Designed homomorphic string-operation algorithms (matching, wildcard search, NLP primitives) and authored technical whitepapers and blog content explaining FHE and privacy-enhancing technologies for industry audiences.

5. 2018

   Research Scientist II, Privacy Engineering Lead

   A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)

   Singapore · Dec 2018 to Sep 2021
   Led 10+ R&D projects on trustworthy and privacy-preserving ML. Delivered FHE prototypes across genomics (GI-FHE), NLP (PrivFT), medical imaging (HCNN), aerospace (CASHE), and anti-money laundering (AML-FHE). Selected for the I2R Technical Expert Panel.

6. 2015

   Research Scholar, HPC & Cryptography (Ph.D. candidate)

   A*STAR Data Storage Institute / National University of Singapore

   Singapore · Jan 2015 to Nov 2018
   Pioneered single-GPU and multi-GPU implementations of BFV/BGV/CKKS, achieving 10 to 100x speedups. Contributed the BFV-BEHZ and HPS RNS variants to PALISADE, now standard primitives in modern FHE libraries. Awarded the SINGA PhD fellowship.

7. 2011

   Lecturer, Computer Engineering

   Taif University

   Taif, Saudi Arabia · Sep 2011 to Dec 2014
   Taught algorithms, data structures, compilers, and C++ programming. Led ABET accreditation preparation for the Computer Engineering program; trained the university's robotics team.

8. 2008

   Software Developer → Senior Software Developer

   Globitel

   Amman, Jordan · Jun 2008 to Sep 2011
   Architected real-time, zero-downtime GSM/SS7 mobile-network systems in C++ and Java with NUMA and shared-memory optimization. Lead developer on Intelligent Traffic Steering (roaming-routing) and Collect Call (Java / Diameter / Oracle).