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Resume:
RESUME
Sara Gatmir Motahari
Email: *****@****.***
Phone: +1-201-***-****
Web: http://web.njit.edu/~sg262
Summary
Engineer, researcher, and analyst, specialized in Computer and Data Networks, Wireless Networks,
Information Security, Privacy Management, Ubiquitous and Social Computing and Location-based
Systems.
Education
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Major: Computer Networks,
Sep 2005 – Dec 2009
Minor: Signal Processing), New Jersey Institute of Technology, GPA 3.94,
Graduation: Jan 2010.
M.Sc, Electrical Engineering (Major: Computer Networks), Chalmers
Sep 2003– May 2004
University of Technology.
B.Sc, Electrical Engineering (Major: Communications), Sharif University of
Sep 1998 - Jan 2003
Technology.
Research and Teaching Experience
August 31, 2009 Invited guest lecturer: Evaluation of Computer Applications (IS475), New
Jersey Institute of Technology
May 2006-present Research Assistant. Advisors: Prof. Sotirios Ziavras, Dr. Quentin Jones, Dr.
Constantine Manikopoulos. Researcher and a group manager for privacy
management. Research on privacy control and protection in ubiquitous
social computing, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Sep 2005-May 2006 Research Assistant, Advisor: Dr. Constantine Manikopoulos, research on
mobile ad hoc security and application layer security, New Jersey Institute
of Technology.
Jan 2006-May 2006 Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Computer Communication Networks
(ECE-422), New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Aug 2004-Aug 2005 Research Assistant, Advisor: Dr. Shahrokh Valaee. Research on wireless
scheduling and 802.16 bandwidth optimization, University of Toronto.
Technical Skills and Experience
• Practical experience with MATLAB, PSPICE, SPSS and Programming skills in C/C++, SQL, and
Assembly of x86, familiar with Java, NS2, and SAS.
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• Experience in Digital Communications, Signal Processing, Computer Networking, knowledge of
wireless networks, 3G and 4G systems and technologies such as WiMax and LTE, and Network
Security.
• Practical experience in experiment design and conduct, field studies, statistical analysis, data
mining, Bayesian Inferences, and AI related software such as SNNS, Netlab, and Membrain.
• Ph.D. research interests lie at the confluence of information privacy, ubiquitous and social
computing, location-based services, and computer and communication networks.
Awards and Honors
• Fall 2009 Ross Memorial Scholarship, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Spring 2009 Hashimoto Scholarship, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Spring 2009 Phonetel Fellowship, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Fall 2008 Google’s Anita Borg Scholarship finalist, Google.
• Spring 2004 Adlerbertska Hospitiefonden Scholarship: Chalmers University of Technology.
Student Supervision, Group Leadership, and Research Projects
• Aug 2004-Aug. 2005 Throughput optimization project (Master’s thesis): broadband access and
throughput optimizations for 3G and 4G wireless networks (WIMAX specification used as the
platform), University of Toronto.
• May 2006-May 2009 Researcher and a group manager for privacy management (PhD
dissertation). Privacy protection and inference management in location-aware and ubiquitous
social computing, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Sep 2008- May 2009 Researcher and a group manager for the Nearby application; an
application and a large-scale field study that run on Windows Mobile phones, New Jersey
Institute of Technology.
• May 2008-May 2009 Group leader and a researcher on GIS systems, location data storage and
on-line coordination conversion, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Jan 2008- May 2008 Research and a conductor of the Introduction experiment; a computer-
mediated communication application that enables on-line chats and sharing profiles, New Jersey
Institute of Technology.
• June 2007- Feb 2008 Group manager and researcher of the location engine, supervised eight
students to define cells and obtain samples of the signals on the whole campus and use them to
locate mobile devices on campus, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
• Jan 2006- June 2006 Student supervisor and a group leader, supervised two Master students in
their Master’s project on Fuzzy and Numerical Preprocessing for a Neural Network Classification
System, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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• Jan 2006- June 2006 Student supervisor, supervised a Master students in his Master’s project
on Secure Wireless Communication, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Publications
Patents:
Motahari S., Ziavras, S., (2009) “Effective Anonymity Protection in Computer-Mediated
Communication”, Provisional Patent, United States Patent and Trademark Office,
Document number: 10-018, October 2009.
Jones Q., Mayer J., Motahari S., (2009) “Socially- and Context-Aware People-Matching
Systems”, Provisional Patent, United States Patent and Trademark Office,
Document number: 10-031, October 2009
Motahari S., Jones Q., (2008) “Social Inference Protection System and Methods”, Non-provisional
Patent, United States Patent and Trademark Office, document number: 94350-
00074, July 2008.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Motahari S., Ziavras S., and Jones Q., (2010) “Online Anonymity Protection in Computer-
Mediated Communication”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security, October 2010.
Motahari S., Ziavras S., and Jones Q., (2010) “How Did You know That about Me? Protecting
Users against Unwanted Inferences”, submitted to IEEE Security and Privacy,
February 2010.
Motahari S., Ziavras, S., and Jones Q., (2009) “Protecting Users from Social Inferences:
Exploring the Impact of Historical and Background Information”, submitted
to Springer Links International Journal of Information Security, August 2009.
Conference Papers:
Patel K., Ismail M., Motahari S., Rosenbaum D., Grandhi S., Ricken R., Jones Q., “MarkIt:
Community Play and Computation to Generate Rich Location Descriptions through
a Mobile Phone Game”, To appear in IEEE Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS10).
Motahari S., Ziavras, S., Naaman, M., Ismail, M., and Jones Q., (2009) “Social inference risk
modeling in Mobile and Social Computing”, IEEE International Conference on
Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (IEEE PASSAT 2009- acceptance rate 13%).
Motahari S., Ziavras, S., and Jones Q., (2009), “Preventing Unwanted Social Inferences with
Classification Tree Analysis”, IEEE International Conference on Tools with
Artificial Intelligence, (IEEE ICTAI 2009).
Motahari S., Ziavras, S., and Jones Q., (2009) “Designing for Different Levels of Social Inference
Risk”, research poster in Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security ", (SOUPS
2009).
Motahari S., Ziavras, S., Schuler R., and Jones Q., (2008) “Identity Inference as a Privacy Risk in
Computer-Mediated Communications”, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS08).
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Motahari S., Manikopoulos C. N., Hiltz R., and Jones Q, (2007) “Seven Privacy Wonders in
Ubiquitous Social Computing”, "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series;
Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security.
Motahari S., Haghani E., Valaee S., (2005) “Space-Time Schedulers for IEEE 802.16”, IEEE Global
Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM).
Motahari S., Haghani E., Valaee S., (2005) “Mobile Hotspots”, research poster in IEEE conference
on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM).
Thesis and Dissertation
Motahari, S., Inference Prevention in Ubiquitous Social Computing, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, PhD dissertation, Jan 2010.
Motahari S., Haghani E. (2005) “Broadband Scheduling and throughput optimization of
IEEE802.16”, Master Thesis, University of Toronto, Canada, Feb.2005.
Services and Volunteer Activities
• Reviewer of the Entropy Journal, 2010.
• Reviewer of IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2009,
PASSAT 2010.
• Reviewer of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2009.
• Reviewer for ACM international conference on human factors in computing systems
CHI2008, CHI 2007.
• Registration co-chair, ICTAI 2009.
• Panel of Judges, New Jersey Web Design Competition, NJIT (2008).
• Student Volunteer at IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2007.
• Communication committee member of International Millennium Seminar on Electrical
Engineering (IMSEE), held at Sharif University, 2000.
• Communication committee member of Iranian Electrical Engineering Students conference held at
Sharif University, 1998.
References
Dr. Sotirios Ziavras Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, New Jersey
Institute of Technology, *******@***.****.***
Dr. Quentin Jones Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, New Jersey
Institute of Technology, ******@****.***
Dr. Roberto Rojas-Cessa Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, *****@****.***
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