About Me

Hi! This is Tahera, a MSc student in Electronic, Security  and Privacy under the supervision of ProfessorRei Safavi-Naeini at UCalgary in Canada, started in January 2022. Prior to that, I lived at Tehran Polytechnic (AUT) for 4 years (BSc in Computer Engineering), supervised by Hamidreza Shahriari. Since then, I have been pursuing my passion for:

• Vulnerability Detection With Machine Learning
• Malware Detection
• Information-Flow Security
• Blockchain Security

Teaching Experience

UCalgary:

• Exploration in Information Security and Privacy (CPSC329), by Janet Leahy, winter 2023

• Exploration in Information Security and Privacy (CPSC329), by Rei Safavi, Fall 2023

• Introduction to Computer Science for Multidisciplinary Studies I (CPSC217), by Adnan Karim, Winter 2022

Tehran Polytechnic:

• Information Security, by Hamidreza Shahriari, Fall 2021
• Computer Networks, by Massoud Sabai, Fall 2019
• Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, by Fateme Mousavi, Fall 2020
• Cloud Computing, by Seyyed Ahmad Javadi, Spring 2021

Work Experience

• Research Assistant at UoC. Jan 2022-Present
  • Curently working on health applications in Blockchain.
  • Working on Blockchain vulnerabilities.
• Software Developer Intern at SWIM watershed - UoC & IBM. Jan 2023-Present
  • Implementing SWIM watershed website.
  • Improving the functionality of the website.
• Mental Health Subcommitee at GSA in UoC. Sep 2022-Dec 2022
  • Working as Volunteer to improve mental health in university of Calgary.
  • Improving the access to mental health resources for students.
• Junior of AI Engineeer at Part Software Co. May 2021 - Dec2021
  • Design and develop a scalable Sahab to correct Persian misspelling error(detection and correction).
  • Map gathered data into suitable data structure based on the needing.
  • Train a Bert Base model for text to speech task(grapheme to phoneme).
• Malware Analyzer at Amnpardaz Co. Jul2020 - May 2021
  • Mainly focusing on core of Padvish as the most powerful Persian Anti-viruse
  • Generating disinfector for different viruses.
  • Tracking network traffic anomaly.
  • Working with various categories of malware like: viruses, trojan, ransomware and etc.
  • Using reverse engineering in order to analyze a malware, and generate its signature.

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Python (experienced in Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch), Java, C, JavaScript, LaTeX.
• OS and Kernel Programming: Linux (Kali, Debian, Ubuntu server), XV6, Windows.
• Virtualization and Distributed Systems: VirtualBox, KVM, Hadoop Distributed System(HDFS), Spark.
• Security: Cryptography, CEH(Certified Ethical Hacker)
• Reverse Engineering Tools: OllyDbg, IDA-Pro, CFF Explorer, API Monitor, PEiD, Process Monitor.
• Network Simulation Tools: NMAP, Cisco Packet Tracer, Wireshark, Boson NetSim.
• Software Development: Git, UML, MySQL.
• Web Application Development: ReactJs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• IDE: PyCharm, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ.