Ahmed Salem is a Researcher at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), focusing on machine learning privacy, biomedical data privacy, and applied cryptography. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge (2022–2024). He received his PhD in Computer Science from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarland University, under the supervision of Michael Backes and Yang Zhang, graduating summa cum laude. Before that, he earned his MSc in Computer Science from Saarland University with high honors and his BSc in Digital Media Engineering from the German University in Cairo. His work has appeared at ICML, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, and Oakland.