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Education
- Ph.D in Cybersecurity, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2016-2022 (expected)
- M.S. in Computer Engineering- Software, Azad University of Mashhad, 2012-2016
- B.S. in Computer Software Technology Engineering, Sadjad Institute of Higher Education, 2009-2012
Work Experience
- Security Engineer Intern: Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
- Flatiron Health, New York City, NY
- Duties included: Automatic remediation of security issues in the AWS environment.
- I developed two modules for the Remediation Framework to automatically detect and remediate the security issues in AWS configurations
- DEF CON presenation of the Remediation Framework
- Research Assistant: Fall 2016-present:
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Duties included: Research on low-level systems security
- Supervisors: Professors Long Lu, Engin Kirda
- Network Engineer/Researcher: October 2012 - May 2016
- ZharfPouyan R&D company, Mashhad, Iran
- Duties included: Research on router architectures
Technical Skills
- Secure Coding
- C/C++, Python, Go Lang, Rust
- Static & Dynamic Program Analysis
- Binary Analysis and Reverse Engineering
- GDB, Ghidra, IDA Pro, Ghidra
- Vulnerability Detection
- Fuzzing
- Source-code Auditing
- Cloud
- AWS Amazon Web Services, IAM, Lambda, Terraform
Publications
Talks
Finding Bugs Using Your Own Code: Machine Learning-based Inconsistent Code Detection.
Conference proceedings talk at OWASP Boston Application Security Conference (BASC) 2019, Burlington, MA
Awards
- BlackHat USA Student Scholarship (2018, 2021)
- 3rd place at CMD+CTRL web application CTF at OWASP Boston (2019)
- 4th place at SharifCTF 8 (2018)
- 20th place at CSAW CTF Qualification Round (2017)
- First place at SharifCTF 7 (2016)
Service and Leadership
- IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine reviewer (2020)
- IEEE Access journal reviewer (2018)
- International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics reviewer (2019)