Security Computer Science

ABEDELAZIZ MOHAISEN

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*** ***** ****** ************ ** Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Tel: (1-612-***-****

E-mail: abo4tf@r.postjobfree.com

URL: http://mn.mohaisen.net

OBJECTIVES

To obtain a challenging full-time research and development position

in systems security, data privacy, data measurements, and analytics.

EDUCATION

* University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN (expected, 05/2012)

- Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Security and Cryptography Lab.

- Thesis: trustworthy computing on social networks

- Adviser: Prof. Yongdae Kim

- M.S., Computer Science, Security and Cryptography Lab (GPA: 3.8/4)

* Inha University, Incheon, Korea (07/2007)

- M.E., Information and Telecomm Engineering (GPA 4.0/4.0)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* Distributed systems security

* Privacy enhancing technologies

* Security and privacy of social networks

* Security of peer-to-peer systems

* Internet security

* Applied cryptography

* Business intelligence/profiling

EXPERIENCE

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University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN (09/2009-Now)

Research Assistant (Security and Cryptography Lab)

Adviser: Prof Yongdae Kim

- Performed large scale measurements of social network and their

properties for security designs.

- Designed and developed a computing overlay on social networks

enabling trustworthiness and privacy.

- Designed and prototyped a location-based social network (and

iphone App) that enhances privacy.

- Designed and prototyped authentication protocols to enhance

usability by visualization (Android app)

- Designed an anonymous communication system on top social

networks.

- Helped designing and validating an Internet-scale attack that

uses weaknesses of the BGP design.

- Helped designing and developing protocols for privacy preserving

top-k secure under strong adversary

International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA 06-08/2011Summer Research Intern (Networking group)

Supervisor: Robin Sommer

- Studied multi-source inference and privacy implications for

business intelligence.

- Designed and developed algorithms for identification and

profiling on online social networks.

- Worked on location privacy in mobile social networks and privacy

policy evolution.

- Developed scripts and wrappers to interact with and retrieve data

from popular social networks and contents providers using their

APIs (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Bing, etc).

Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Daejeon,

Korea 09/2007 - 08/2009Member of Engineering Staff (Information Security Group)

Supervisor: Dowon Hong

- Designed and developed two privacy privacy algorithms for

geometrical data clustering

- Designed and developed a privacy preserving association rule

mining technique using perturbation.

- Investigated privacy issues and cryptographic techniques for

preserving privacy of location data.

- Designed architectures for preserving privacy in location-based

services (mobile) and for medical data.

- Analyzed the security of several key distribution techniques in

wireless and RFID networks.

- Designed and developed (in nesC) two key distribution algorithms

for sensor networks.

Inha University, Incheon, Korea 05/2005-08/2007Research Assistant (Information Security Research Laboratory)

Adviser: Prof. Daehun Nyang

- Designed several algorithms for key distribution,

authentication, and revocation in sensor networks.

- Explored security in home networks and designed algorithms for

data protection in non-tamper proof devices.

- Explored state-of-the-art high-speed algorithms for deep packet

inspection

HONORS AND AWARDS (SELECTED)

* 2011 - 2012: Doctoral dissertation fellowship. Graduate school of

the University of Minnesota (awarded to 2 students in CS dept.)

* 2007: The dean's award for the best master's degree completion

(Inha University, merit; one per department)

* 2006, 2007: BrainKorea (BK) 21 research encouragement award (Inha

University merit; monetary award; won twice)

* 2005 - 2007: Jungseok international fellowship, Inha University

(merit; full tuition of my grad study)

* 2000 - 2005: Al-Jerashi academic excellence scholarship (merit;

full tuition of undergrad study)

MEDIA COVERAGE

See http://bit.ly/zfmj3s for more details.

* In December 2011, our work on social cloud - cloud computing on

social networks - was covered by media in the following coverages

- MIT Technology http://bit.ly/x5rY3w

- The Verge http://bit.ly/sfqeo2

- MSN.COM http://bit.ly/vZvYCn msn.com (French)

- Atelier (French) http://bit.ly/tlK9uC

- Data Networks (Dutch). http://bit.ly/wBatuV

* In February 2011, our work on Internet security received wide media

attention and was featured in

- New scientist http://bit.ly/wHQvNy

- Slashdot http://bit.ly/xqKcuh

- CBS News http://bit.ly/wzvOoU

- Minnesota Daily http://bit.ly/xu79sK

- Metro http://bit.ly/yJrt9T

- Gizmodo http://bit.ly/wyF3Zg

- The Register http://bit.ly/zFop2z

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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US PATENTS

- Nam-Su Jho, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, and Dowon Hong. Apparatus and

method for privacy protection in association rule mining. USPTO

Application no 201********, June 2011.

- A. Mohaisen and D. Hong. Rotation based transformation method and

apparatus for preserving data privacy. USPTO Application no

201********, May 2010.

OTHER PATENTS and SW PACKAGES

- Nine (9) Korean patent applications on privacy preserving

technologies and key management while working as a researcher at

the ETRI - list of patents is available upon request.

- The lead developer of two (2) software modules for privacy

preserving associations discovery (called ppar-discovery) and data

clustering (ppc-discovery). Both modules are the property of ETRI.

TALKS

- CONFERENCE: IEEE INFOCOM 2011, IEEE SIMPLEX 2011, ACM IMC 2010,

ACM CCS 2010, WISA 2008, NCM 2008, UIC 2008, MSN 2007, PAKDD 2007,

UIC 2006, EWSN 2006.

- INVITED TALKS: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ. Jan. 2012),

KOCSEA (San Jose, CA. Dec. 2011), KAIST (Korea. April 2011), ETRI

(Korea, Apr. 2011, Jun. 2010), Korea University (Korea, Apr. 2011,

Jun. 2010), Inha University (Korea, Jun. 2010), Universiteit

Twente (The Netherlands, Dec. 2008)SKILLS

- LANGUAGES: C/C++, Java, Objective-C, Python,

JavaScript, HTML/CSS

- TOOLS: Matlab, Mathematica, R, NetworkX, Gnuplot.

- SOCIAL APIs: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc

- WEB APIs: Google and Bing.

- OS: Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, BSD, Solaris), Mac OS, and MS Windows.

- MOBILE: iOS (Apple's), Android OS, and J2ME.REFERENCES

Available upon requ

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