__________________ CURRICULUM VITAE __________________ Ahmad Afuni Location: GMT+10 email: root@~ github: ax0 matrix: @ax0:matrix.org mastodon: @ax0@mas.to Experience ========== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2024 Mathematician/Software developer @ 0xPARC -- present - Implementation of cryptographic protocols in Circom and Plonky2 - Full stack development in Rust and TypeScript - Talks and workshops at internal and external events ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nov. 2022 Research engineer @ Aragon ZK Research -- Dec. 2023 - Implementation of cryptographic primitives in ZK DSLs - Circuit and UI work on private voting solutions - Talks and workshops at various events ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oct. 2017 Postdoctoral scientist @ Free University of Berlin -- Aug. 2022 - Carried out research and published papers - Taught courses on geometry, relativity and differential equations - Ran seminars - Supervised master's students ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oct. 2014 Postdoctoral scientist @ Leibniz University of Hannover -- April 2017 - Carried out research and published papers - Assisted in preparation of undergraduate courses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Education ========= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan. 2015 Ph.D. in mathematics @ Free University of Berlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dec. 2009 B.Sc. Honours in mathematics & physics @ University of Queensland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talks ===== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15/11/2024 Programmable Cryptography CLS, Devcon SEA, Bangkok, Thailand --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14/11/2024 Devcon SEA, Bangkok, Thailand --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/11/2023 Programmable Cryptography Conference, Istanbul, Turkey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/09/2023 zkSummit 10, London, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/08/2023 zkWarsaw Day, Warsaw, Poland --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06/07/2023 ETHBarcelona 2023, Barcelona, Spain --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/03/2023 Betahaus Blockchain Day, Berlin, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06/12/2018 Oberseminar Analysis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/03/2018 Workshop on Geometric Evolution Equations, Regensburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06/07/2017 Oberseminar Analysis/Numerik, University of Oldenburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/01/2017 Topics in Geometric Analysis, University of Potsdam, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/09/2013 XXII International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics, Évora, Portugal --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teaching ======== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer 2022 Partial Differential Equations III Free Univerity of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer 2020 Partial Differential Equations III Free Univerity of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter 2019 Partial Differential Equations II Free University of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer 2019 Differential Geometry II Free University of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer 2018 Introduction to General Relativity Free University of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer 2018 Seminar on Differential Geometry Free University of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter 2017 Differential Geometry III Free University of Berlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publications ============ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2021 Local regularity for the harmonic map and Yang-Mills heat flows The Journal of Geometric Analysis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2019 Regularity and vanishing theorems for Yang-Mills-Higgs pairs Archiv der Mathematik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2018 Local energy inequalities for mean curvature flow into evolving ambient spaces manuscripta mathematica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2017 Energy identities and monotonicity for evolving k-forms on moving Riemannian spaces Journal of Evolution Equations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2017 Heat ball formulæ for k-forms on evolving manifolds Advances in Calculus of Variations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2016 Local monotonicity for the Yang-Mills-Higgs flow Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------