CV Mansour Ahmadi

 

EDUCATION:         

01/2014 – 01/2017 University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

PhD, Research-based – Computer Security

09/2007 – 02/2011 Azad University of Arak, Arak, Iran

Master of science, GPA – 17.57/20 – Computer Software Engineering

02/2003 – 09/2007 University of Sistan & Baloochestan, Zahedan, Iran

Bachelor – Applied Mathematics in Computer Science


THESIS:       

PhD “Modeling Neglected Functions of Android Applications to Effectively Detect Malware”

Supervisor: Prof.  Giorgio Giacinto (University of Cagliari)

Description:  I proposed different machine learning techniques for Android malware classification.

Master  “Software Classification based on Execution Pattern: a Data Mining Approach”

Supervisor: Prof.  Ashkan Sami (Shiraz University)

Description: I proposed a data mining technique for Windows malware detection by dynamic analysis. My thesis score is 20/20.


AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS  

2016: Student Travel Grant for CCS 2016

2015: Rank 49th among 377 teams (Top 13%) – Microsoft Malware challenge (The cup committee accepted our solution for presentation in WWW/BIG conference)

2014: Achieved 100/100 score during Ph.D. admission + Received Ph.D. Scholarship

2012: 3rd Paper Award – IT Security for Next Generation Cup, Kaspersky, Hong Kong, 2012

2011: 1st Paper Award – IT Security for Next Generation Cup, Kaspersky, Malaysia, 2011


COMPUTER LANGUAGES:       

Current: Python, Java, Android, LATEX

Past:  C#, SQL, UML, C/C++, HTML, CSS, Asp.Net, R


LANGUAGES:         

English: Advanced – C1 level

Italian: Elementary – A2 level

Persian/Farsi: Mother tongue


PUBLICATIONS &  PRESENTATIONS:          

2017:

  1. (Conference) Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Santanu  Kumar Dash, Mansour Ahmadi, Giorgio Giacinto, Johannes  Kinder, Lorenzo Cavallaro, “DroidSieve: Fast  and Accurate Classification of Obfuscated  Android Malware”, 7th  Conference on Data  and Applications Security and Privacy (CODASPY), ACM, Arizona, USA, Mar, 2017.

2016:

  1. (Workshop) Mansour Ahmadi, Battista Biggio, Steven Arzt, Davide Ariu, Giorgio Giacinto, “Detecting Misuse of Google Cloud Messaging in Android Badware”, SPSM, in conjunction with the CCS, 2016.
  2. (Workshop) Santanu Kumar Dash, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Salahuddin Khan, Kimberly Tam, Mansour Ahmadi, Johannes Kinder, Lorenzo Cavallaro, “DROIDSCRIBE: Classifying Android Mal- ware based on Runtime Behavior”, Mobile Security Technologies (MoST) Workshop, in conjunction with the S&P, IEEE, USA, 2016.
  3. (Conference) Mansour Ahmadi, Giorgio Giacinto, Dmitry Ulyanov, Stanislav Semenov and Mikhail Trofimov, “Novel feature extraction,  selection and  fusion for effective malware  family classification”, 6th Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (CODASPY), ACM, New Orleans, USA, Mar, 2016.

2015:

  1. (Conference) Marco Aresu, Davide Ariu, Mansour Ahmadi, Davide Maiorca, Giorgio Giacinto, “Clustering Android Malware Families by Http Traffic”, 10th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON), IEEE, Puerto Rico, USA, Oct, 2015.
  2. (Workshop) Mansour Ahmadi, Giorgio Giacinto, “A light-weight malware family classification system: Microsoft malware challenge”, BIG event, co-located with WWW conference, 2015.
  3. (Journal) Masoud Narouei, Mansour Ahmadi, Giorgio Giacinto, Hassan Takabi, Ashkan Sami, “DLLMiner: structural mining for malware detection”, Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, 2015.

2014:

  1. (Poster) Masoud Narouei, Mansour Ahmadi, Hassan Takabi, Giorgio Giacinto, “Structural Mining for Malware Detection”, ACSAC, 2014.

2013:

  1. (Journal) Masoud Naroie, Mansour Ahmadi, Ashkan Sami, “SePaS: Word Sense Disambigua- tion by Sequential Patterns in Sentences”, Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge, 2013.
  2. (Journal) Mansour Ahmadi, Ashkan Sami, Hossein Rahimi, Babak Yadegari, “Malware Detection by Behavioral Sequential patterns”, Computer Fraud & Security, Elsevier, 2013.

2012:

  1. (Conference) Mohammad Razmara, Babak Asadi, Masoud Narouei, Mansour Ahmadi, “A Novel Approach toward Spam Detection Based on Iterative Patterns”, ICCKE, IEEE, Iran, 2012.
  2. (Conference) Masoud Narouei, Mansour Ahmadi, Ashkan Sami, “Mining Modules’ Dependencies for Malware Detection”, presented at the IT Security for Next Generation Cup, Kaspersky, Hong Kong, 2012. 3rd Paper Award
  3. (Journal) Fatemeh Karbalaie, Ashkan Sami, Mansour Ahmadi, “Semantic Malware Detection by Deploying Graph Mining”, International Journal of Computer Science Issues, vol. 9, Issue. 1,2012.

2011:

  1. (Conference) Mansour Ahmadi, Ashkan Sami, Hossein Rahimi, Babak Yadegari, “Iterative Patterns Blow the Malware Cover”, IT Security for Next Generation Cup, Kaspersky, Malaysia, 2011. Best Paper Award
  2. (Conference) Mansour Ahmadi, Peyman Gholami, “A Novel Classification Method  aided SAW”, 16th conference of Computer Society of Iran, Iran, 2011.


INTERESTS:                                                                                                                              

Vocational: Computer security, Android security, Malware detection, Data mining, Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics
Personal: Traveling, Harmonica, Cooking, Table Tennis, Swimming


SERVICES: 

Reviewer: Computers & Security Journal
Sub Reviewer:  MLDM 2015, 2016, IC4S 2016, ITA-SEC 2017


EXPERIENCE:

WORK:

01/2017 – Present University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Postdoctoral Researcher – Machine Learning for Malware Classification. Working with Prof.  Giorgio Giacinto

08/2015 – 01/2016, 06/2016 – 07/2016 Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
Visiting research assistant – Static and dynamic analysis of Android malware. Working with Dr. Lorenzo Cavallaro & Dr. Johannes Kinder

06/2013 – 12/2013 Freelancer, Shiraz, Iran
Master thesis consultant – Persian POS tagger system, Malicious PDF detection by frequent patterns

04/2013 – 06/2013 Research Institute for ICT, Tehran, Iran
Software developer, security researcher – Developer of a system by MS Visual C#

10/2007 – 03/2013 Nikan Network Company, Shiraz, Iran
Software development manager & Engineer, Security Consultant – Web Application Security Consultant, Kaspersky Anti Malware Technical Manager, Designed and implemented of customized applications by MS Visual C#, SQL Server

01/2010 – 01/2012 APA, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Software Engineer and Security Researcher – Malware Analysis by MS Visual C#, MS Visual C++, API Monitoring, Virtual Box

05/2007 – 10/2007 SIDA company, Tehran, Iran
Developer and Database Designer – Designed and implemented of customized applications by MS Visual C#, ASP.Net, Oracle


TEACH:

01/2008 – 12/2013 Fars Universities, Iran
Instructor: Professional experience in teaching bachelor courses at 4 universities such as Pasargad Non State  University (Shiraz), Azad University (FiroozAbad), Payame Noor University (Safa-shahr), University of Applied Science and Technology (Sa’adat-Shahr)


COURSES: 

Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH), Software Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Object Oriented Programming, Network Programming, Multimedia, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structure, E-Commerce, File system and structures, Technical English, Documentation, Web Design

 

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