Summary
Aydin Abadi is an Assistant Professor at Newcastle University with eight years of research and academic experience across UK institutions including UCL and Edinburgh, specialising in information security, privacy, and cryptography. His work spans practical threats like bank and payment fraud as well as foundational technologies such as private set intersection, secure multi-party computation, oblivious transfer, time-lock puzzles and verifiable computation. He also explores blockchain applications and privacy-preserving machine learning, bridging theoretical cryptanalysis with deployable privacy-enhancing technologies. Based in London, he combines academic rigor with applied problem-solving, producing research that targets real-world financial and distributed-system risks. Notably, his profile reflects a steady progression from research roles to a lecturing position, signaling growing leadership in teaching and research translation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer