Staff profile

Career Highlight

The main theme of my research is security engineering and practical cryptography. I research physical security, web security and trustworthy machine learning; however, I am always ready to explore exciting research topics.

The results of my research have been published in esteemed media outlets such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and BBC. I am an invited expert in the Device and Sensor Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There, I collaborate with other members to set new standards for security and privacy issues of sensor connectivity in modern browsers.

Also, I am interested in hardware security and secure identification of smart devices in various Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures.

• Trust in Emerging Technologies
• Integrity Assurance Mechanisms
• Side Channel Attacks
• Web Browser Security
• Trustworthy Machine Learning

Conference Paper

• Toreini, E., Aitken, M., Coopamootoo, K., Elliott, K., Zelaya, C. G., & van Moorsel, A. (2020). The relationship between trust in AI and trustworthy machine learning technologies.
• Aitken, M., Ng, M., Toreini, E., van Moorsel, A., Coopamootoo, K. P., & Elliott, K. (2020). Keeping it Human: A Focus Group Study of Public Attitudes Towards AI in Banking. In ESORICS 2020: Computer Security (21-38). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66504-3_2
• Mehrnezhad, M., & Toreini, E. (2019). What Is This Sensor and Does This App Need Access to It?.
• Mehrnezhad, M., Toreini, E., & Alajrami, S. (2018). Making sense of sensors: mobile sensor security awareness and education.
• Mehrnezhad, M., Toreini, E., Shahandashti, S. F., & Hao, F. (2015). Touchsignatures: Identification of user touch actions based on mobile sensors via javascript.

Doctoral Thesis

• Toreini, E. (2018). New advances in tamper evident technologies. (Thesis). Newcastle University. Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1647214

Journal Article

• Mehrnezhad, M., Coopamootoo, K., & Toreini, E. (2022). How Can and Would People Protect From Online Tracking?. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 1, 105-125. https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0006
• Wang, S., Toreini, E., & Hao, F. (2021). Anti-Counterfeiting for Polymer Banknotes Based on Polymer Substrate Fingerprinting. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 16, 2823-2835. https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2021.3067440
• Toreini, E., Aitken, M., Coopamootoo, K. P., Elliott, K., Zelaya, V. G., Missier, P., …van Moorsel, A. (2020). Technologies for Trustworthy Machine Learning: A Survey in a Socio-Technical Context
• Hao, F., Wang, S., Bag, S., Procter, R., Shahandashti, S. F., Mehrnezhad, M., …Liu, L. (2020). End-to-End Verifiable E-Voting Trial for Polling Station Voting at Gateshead
• Aitken, M., Toreini, E., Carmichael, P., Coopamootoo, K., Elliott, K., & van Moorsel, A. (2020). Establishing a social licence for Financial Technology: Reflections on the role of the private sector in pursuing ethical data practices
• Ng, M., Coopamootoo, K. P., Toreini, E., Aitken, M., Elliot, K., & van Moorsel, A. (2020). Simulating the Effects of Social Presence on Trust, Privacy Concerns \& Usage Intentions in Automated Bots for Finance
• Toreini, E., Shahandashti, S. F., Mehrnezhad, M., & Hao, F. (2019). DOMtegrity: ensuring web page integrity against malicious browser extensions
• Mehrnezhad, M., Toreini, E., Shahandashti, S. F., & Hao, F. (2018). Stealing PINs via mobile sensors: actual risk versus user perception
• Toreini, E., Shahandashti, S. F., & Hao, F. (2017). Texture to the rescue: Practical paper fingerprinting based on texture patterns
• Mehrnezhad, M., Bafghi, A. G., Harati, A., & Toreini, E. (2017). PiSHi: click the images and I tell if you are a human
• McCorry, P., Toreini, E., & Mehrnezhad, M. (2016). Removing trusted tallying authorities
• Mehrnezhad, M., Toreini, E., Shahandashti, S. F., & Hao, F. (2016). Touchsignatures: identification of user touch actions and pins based on mobile sensor data via javascript. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 26, 23-38
• Mehrnezhad, M., Toreini, E., Shahandashti, S., & Hao, F. (2016). Identification of user touch actions and PINs based on mobile sensor data via JavaScript. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 26, 23 - 38
• Toreini, E., Randell, B., & Hao, F. (2015). An acoustic side channel attack on enigma
• Clarke, D., Toreini, E., & Hao, F. (2015). Determining User Passwords From Partial Information
• Satvat, K., Forshaw, M., Hao, F., & Toreini, E. (2014). On the privacy of private browsing-A forensic approach. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 19(1), 88-100