About me

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Information and Computer Science at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. I received my Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology and I was a graduate research assistant at Global Cyber Security Institute. My doctoral advisor was Dr.Mehdi Mirakhorli. I got my M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Shiraz University.

I am also research collaborator at National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST).

Research Interests

My main research interests are in the domain of Software Engineering and Data Science:

• Software Security
• Attack Surface Analysis
• Vulnerability Detection
• Program Analysis
• Data-Driven Software Analysis
• Machine Learning and Data Mining

News

Aug 29, 2023

I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!

Feb 20, 2023

Defended my PhD proposal.

May 11, 2022

Attended and presented at ICSE2022 in-person at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!

Dec 02, 2021

My submission to International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE2022 with Dr. Mirakhorli and Ahmet Okutan titled “A Grounded Theory Based Approach to Characterize Software Attack Surfaces” was accepted in technical track!

May 10, 2020

Passed Research Potential Assessment (RPA).