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I'm part of the Android Security and Privacy team.

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I teach Application Security at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering.

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• Improving the integration of security scanners, e.g., Brakeman, Bandit, BundleAudi, Gosec, in security orchestration tools, e.g., Salus, Clair, as well as automatic ticket creation in Jira based on their reports.
• Designing and implementing a new service called vulnerability inventory for vulnerability management and analysis implemented using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB with a Datadog dashboard.
• Implementing a Lambda service for automating security tasks via Tines (threat intelligence team).

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In summer 2019, I was a Software Engineering Intern at Cisco under supervision of Eliot Lear and I worked on developing the MUD-Visualizer (open source) tool to facilitate deployment of Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) standard for protecting IoT devices

• MUD-Visualizer was accepted in BlackHat USA Arsenal 2020
• MUD-Visualizer was added to IoT-Onboarding organization in GitHub (A cross-organizational effort to improve IoT onboarding experience)

An online version of the MUD-Visualizer is available at www.mudmaker.org.

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During my Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington, I mainly worked as either Associate Instructor, Co-Instructor, Research Assistant, or Course Designer. A summary of my responsibilities was as follows:

Co-instructor of Cyber-Defense Competition course.

Associate instructor of Mathematics of Cyber Security, System & Protocol Security and Information Assurance, Economics of Security, Computer Systems Engineering, Advanced Operating System, and Python Programming courses.

Conducting research on leveraging machine learning for end-user security and privacy protection.

Data Processing OnRamp online course designer.

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As a member of the Visual Neuroscience group in Helsinki University Central Hospital, I designed and implementated a computational neuroscience simulator, namely CxSystem (and its successor CxSystem2). CxSystem2 has won the infrastructure voucher of Human Brain Project (HBP) which is the largest scientific project ever funded by the European Union. CxSystem and CxSystem2 are open source and available on GitHub.

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I started to work on my master thesis in department of Pervasive Computing. The goal of my master thesis was to design and implement a realistic model of neuronal activity in MEA plates in order to create a simulated bio-integrated wireless sensor network. In another part, functional connectivity analysis of the neuronal networks were implemented both in MATLAB and CUDA (PyCUDA) and the performance improvement was evaluated. We developed a MEA-plate simulator and used spiking neuronal networks for simple pattern recognition tasks. (Funded by Academy of Finland)

Doctor of Philosophy

Under the supervision of Prof. Jean Camp and Prof. Martin Swany, my research focused on leveraging machine learning for end-user security and privacy protection. This was achieved by strenghening the security and privacy defenses over the network stack: in application layer I worked on applying machine learning to build a human-centered anti-fingerprinting defense. In mid-layers I work on the MUD standard for protecting IoT devices through network-microsegmentation., and close to physical layer, I worked on deep learning applications in binary analysis for facilitating reverse engineering of stripped IoT firmware binaries.

Master of Science

I started my master studies at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, studying Biomedical Engineering. In the second year of my master, I changed my degree type to a double major degree: biomedical engineering with a focus area on medical instrumentation and Information Technology with a focus area on Communication systems and networks. During my master studies, I also had extracurricular research in parallel computing, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and systems modelling.

Bachelor of Science

I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with a major in computer hardware from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Tehran, Iran. During my bachelor I became involved in network traffic analysis and modelling as well as basic image processing. In the final year of my bachelor, I decided to continue my studies to master's level in an interdisciplinary field combining computer science and biomedical engineering to apply my knowledge of compute science in health-care.