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Zahra Tarkhani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology within the School of Technology at the University of Cambridge. She is based in the William Gates Building (Room GC01) at 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, and can be contacted at zt233@cam.ac.uk.
Her research focuses at the intersection of hardware security, confidential computing, and privacy-preserving systems. Key interests include trusted execution environments, secure machine learning implementations, memory safety mechanisms, and security for wearable brain-computer interfaces. Her work bridges theoretical security principles with practical system implementations, particularly addressing challenges in heterogeneous computing environments.
Analysis of her 11 publications from 2017-2024 reveals a strong trajectory toward secure machine learning systems, with recent work systematizing knowledge in confidential computing for ML. Earlier research established foundations in memory protection (Tiles/μTiles), enclave orchestration (Sirius), and heterogeneous enclave management (Snape), demonstrating consistent innovation in privilege separation and compartmentalization techniques.
Her scientific contributions address critical gaps in hardware-software security interfaces, with applications spanning cloud infrastructure, edge computing, and biomedical devices. The publications demonstrate technical depth in both architectural design and implementation security.
