Associate Professor Amin Sakzad currently working as an academic at the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity at Monash University. Amin is the current deputy head to the same department. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, 2011. He was a research visitor and a lecturer at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 2010. He was a research lecturer at AUT in 2011. Starting from Jan. 2012, he was a research fellow at Software Defined Telecommunications (SDT) Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University under supervision of Prof. Emanuele Viterbo.

From Feb. 2015 to April 2017, he was a research fellow at Clayton School of Information Technology at Monash University under supervision of Prof. Ron Steinfeld. He has been an academic (lecturer then a senior lecturer and now an associate professor) in the same faculty at Monash university since 2017. Amin is mainly interested in applications of lattices in cryptography and wireless communications. This includes applications of Algebraic Number Theory, Diophantine Approximation and Finite Fields in physical layer network coding and security, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, lattice-based cryptography, and searchable encryption.