Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

Conference & Workshop Papers

  1. PAC to the Future: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of PAC Private Systems

    G. Repetto, N. Sheybani, G. De Micheli, F. Koushanfar

    ACM WWW 2026 Workshop on ZKP and Blockchain for Web 4.0

  2. ZORRO: Zero-Knowledge Attested Client-Side Backdoor Defense in Split Learning

    N. Sheybani*, A. Pegoraro*, J. Knauer*, E. Mollakuqe, P. Rieger, F. Koushanfar, A. Sadeghi

    ACM CCS 2025

  3. Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Primitives to Support LLM-Scale Applications

    Y. Jandali, R. Zhang, N. Sheybani, F. Koushanfar

    ICCAD 2025

  4. Gotta Hash 'Em All! Speeding Up Hash Functions for Zero-Knowledge Proof Applications

    N. Sheybani*, T. Gong, A. Ahmed, N. Njungle, M. Kinsy, F. Koushanfar

    ICCAD 2025

  5. AMAZE: Accelerated MiMC Architecture for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Applications on the Edge

    A. Ahmed*, N. Sheybani*, D. Moreno, N. Njungle, T. Gong, M. Kinsy, F. Koushanfar

    ICCAD 2024· Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security 2025

  6. You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Ensuring Practical Robustness and Privacy in Federated Learning

    N. Sheybani, F. Koushanfar

    AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2024

  7. zPROBE: Zero Peek Robustness Checks for Federated Learning

    Z. Ghodsi*, M. Javaheripi*, N. Sheybani*, X. Zhang*, K. Huang, F. Koushanfar

    ICCV 2023

  8. NetFlick: Adversarial Flickering Attacks on Deep Learning Based Video Compression

    J. Chang, N. Sheybani, S. Hussain, M. Javeheripi, S. Hidano, F. Koushanfar

    ICLR ML4IoT Workshop 2023

  9. ZKROWNN: Zero Knowledge Right of Ownership for Neural Networks

    N. Sheybani, Z. Ghodsi, R. Kapila, F. Koushanfar

    DAC 2023

  10. zPROBE: Zero Peek Robustness Checks for Federated Learning

    Z. Ghodsi*, M. Javaheripi*, N. Sheybani*, X. Zhang*, K. Huang, F. Koushanfar

    NeurIPS TSRML Workshop 2022· Outstanding Paper Award

  11. FastStamp: Accelerating Neural Steganography and Digital Watermarking of Images on FPGAs

    S. Hussain*, N. Sheybani*, P. Neekhara*, X. Zhang, J. Duarte, F. Koushanfar

    ICCAD 2022

  12. Is Revolutionary Hardware for Fully Homomorphic Encryption important? What else is needed?

    C. Bonte, R. Cammarota, J. Cheon, W. Dai, N. Gama, S. Halevi, D. Joo, M. Kim, K. Laine, T. Lepoint, H. Naehrig, D. Micciancio, N. Sheybani, Y. Polyakov, L. Shen, J. Yang

    COSADE 2021

Journal Papers

  1. Robust and Secure Code Watermarking for Large Language Models via ML/Crypto Codesign

    R. Zhang*, N. Javidnia*, N. Sheybani, F. Koushanfar

    Preprint, 2026

  2. Zero-Knowledge Proof Frameworks: A Systematic Survey

    N. Sheybani, A. Ahmed, M. Kinsy, F. Koushanfar

    Preprint, 2025

  3. Tailor: Altering Skip Connections for Resource-Efficient Inference

    O. Weng, J. Loroch, N. Sheybani, J. Liang, A. Tumeo, J. Weisz, R. Kastner

    IEEE TRETS, 2023

  4. SenseHash: Computing on Sensor Values Mystified at the Origin

    N. Sheybani, X. Zhang, S. U. Hussain, F. Koushanfar

    IEEE TETC, 2022