Honors and Awards

  • Congressional Recognition for attending Grad Cohort, April 2017.
  • First place in PhD Research Symposium in Computer Science Department at George Mason University, April 2017.
  • Travel grant to attend Real World Crypto (RWC), Zurich, Switzerland, January 2018.
  • Travel grant to attend DIMACS Workshop, Piscataway, New Jersey, October 2017.
  • Google travel grant to attend 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Jose, California, May 2017.
  • Travel grant to attend the GREPSEC III Workshop, San Jose, California, May 2017.
  • Travel grant to attend Real World Crypto (RWC) 2017, New York, New York, January 2017.
  • Travel grant to attend CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop, Washington, DC, April 2017.
  • Travel grant to attend CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop, San Diego, California, April 2016.
  • Graduate Research Assistantship from George Mason University, Fall 2013 - Current.
  • Research Assistantship from General Motors, Fall 2014 - Summer 2015.
  • Graduate Assistantship from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Spring 2013 - Summer 2013.
  • Graduate Research Assistantship at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring 2012-Fall 2012.
  • Qualified to continue graduate studies to Ph.D. program, exempted to take the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian Universities, 2010.
  • Master thesis qualified as the Premier Research Project in Department of Electrical, Computer and IT Engineering, Qazvin University, 2010.
  • Research Grant from IRIB (Republic of Iran Broadcasting), 2009 - 2010.
  • Ranked top $1\%$ among Computer Engineering students, Department of Electrical, Computer and IT Engineering, Qazvin University, 2006 - 2009.
  • Qualified to continue graduate studies to Master's program, exempted to take the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian Universities, 2006.
  • Ranked top $1\%$ among Computer Engineering students, Department of Computer Engineering, Tehran North Branch University, 2002 - 2006.

Reviewed For

  • Elsevier Information Sciences
  • Elsevier Optics and Lasers in Engineering
  • Optics & Laser Technology
  • Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics
  • Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
  • EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
  • IET Image Processing journal

Research Experience

  • Research Assistant and Member of Security Lab, George Mason University. Supervisor: Dr. Dov Gordon. Working on multi-party secure computation (MPC) and privacy-preserving machine learning. Summer 2016-Current.
  • Research Assistant and Member of Security Lab, George Mason University. Supervisor: Dr. Damon McCoy. Working on Security analysis on In-Vehicle Infotainment System (IVI), Fall 2013-Fall 2015.
  • Research Assistant and Member of Internet Lab, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Supervisor: Dr. Christian Borcea. Working on Smart Virtual Machine Migration and Placement in Cloud Computing, Spring 2013.
  • Research Assistant and Member of iWIN Lab, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Supervisor: Dr. Miao Jin. Working on Wireless Sensor Network Security and Key Management. Spring 2012-Fall 2012.
  • Research Associate and Member of Image Processing Lab, University of Tehran. Supervisor: Prof. H. Soltanian-Zadeh. Working on a Soccer Video Analysis System for IRIB (Iran Broadcasting Organization), 2009-2010.

Teaching Experience

  • TA for Undergraduate, Computer Systems Architecture (MIPS Assembly), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Spring 2016.
  • TA for Undergraduate, Computer Programming for Engineers, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Spring 2016.
  • TA for Graduate, Image Processing, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. Spring 2013.
  • TA for Undergraduate, JAVA Programming Language, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. Spring 2013.
  • Instructor for Undergraduate, Assembly and Machine Language, Azad University, Qazvin, Iran 2009-2010.
  • Instructor for Undergraduate, Advanced Computer Programming in C & C++, Azad University, Qazvin, Iran 2009-2010.
  • Instructor for Undergraduate, Artificial Intelligence, Payam-Noor University, Tehran, Iran 2009.
  • Instructor for Undergraduate, Advanced Computer Programming, Payam-Noor University, Tehran, Iran 2009.
  • Instructor in a computer programming institute, Programming with C++ and MATLAB, A private Computer Programming Institute, Tehran, Iran 2009.