Computer Science Project

Department of Computer Science

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University of Pittsburgh

Marian K. Iskander Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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webpage: www.cs.pitt.edu/~marianky

cellular: 412-***-****

EDUCATION

Starting Ph.D Graduate Student

August 2009 Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Third year student: GPA 3.8/4.0

April 2007 M.Sc. in Information Systems GPA 4.0/4.0

Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Thesis Title: Development of an Enhanced Data Security System for Code Division

Multiple Access Wireless Networks

June 2002 B.Sc. in Information Systems

Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Degree: Outstanding, Graduated with degree of honor ranked 2nd GPA 3.875/4.0

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND DIRECTIONS

My broad research interests lie at the intersection of security and distrib uted systems. I am mostly interested

in designing secure and fault tolerant protocols for distributed systems operating under real-time, QoS, and

power constraints. My research advisor is Dr. Adam J. Lee, and my co-advisor is Dr. Daniel Moss .

My completed and ongoing research projects include:

- Designing fault-tolerant and confidentiality-preserving protocols for in-network data aggregation in

wireless sensor networks, and studying the energy impact of these protocols.

- Designing approaches to enforce authorization policies and data consistency requirements in database

transactions executed in the cloud. We have defined di erent levels of policy consistency constraints

and presented enforcement approaches to guarantee different degrees of consistency.

- Accelerating deep packet inspection using GPU for intrusion detection systems.

- Designing algorithms to reduce the number of bit writes in PRAM storage to increase the durability of

PRAM devices by indexing free blocks using content-based signatures.

Designing logical topologies of hierarchical rings for fractionated spacecrafts architectures aimed to

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achieve high degree of fault tolerance for satellite modules and provide hierarchical levels of trust.

PUBLICATIONS

Marian K. Iskander, Adam J. Lee, and Daniel Moss, Confidentiality-Preserving and Fault-Tolerant

In-Network Aggregation for WSNs, under review.

Marian K. Iskander, Dave W. Wilkinson, Adam J. Lee, and Panos K. Chrysanthis, Enforcing Policy

and Data Consistency of Cloud Transactions," in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on

Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing (ICDCS-SPCC), June 2011.

Marian K. Iskander, Adam J. Lee, and Daniel Moss, Privacy and Robustness for Data Aggregation in

Wireless Sensor Networks," 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS

Poster Session, October 2010.

Brian Wongchaowart, Marian K. Iskander, and Sangyeun Cho, A Content-Aware

Block Placement Algorithm for Reducing PRAM Storage Bit Writes," 26th IEEE

Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies, May 2010.

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Marian K. Iskander, Nabil Hamdy, Tarek A. El Megeed, Ahmed M. Hamad, MANAGE1: New Stream

Cipher for Data Encryption in CDMA Wireless Networks, IEEE International Conference on

Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES 06), Cairo-Egypt, November 2006.

Marian K. Iskander, Nabil Hamdy, Tarek A. El Megeed, Ahmed M. Hamad, Assessing the Security of

the Stream Cipher (ORYX) for CDMA Wireless Networks, Second ACM ICICIS Conference

on Intelligent Computing & Information Systems, Cairo-Egypt, March 2005.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Runner-up for the 2011 Orrin E. & Margaret M. Taulbee Award for Excellence, Department of Computer

Science, University of Pittsburgh. [Recognizes teaching excellence, strong research interests, and

marked interest in pursuing an academic career; only one awardee and one runner-up per year.]

TA Mentor Award for achieving the honor of being the mentor of the teaching assistants for the

academic year 2011-2012, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh [only one

awardee per year].

Best Graduate Poster Award for 2011, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh.

NSF travel grant to attend and present at ICDCS-SPCC 2011.

ACM travel grant to attend and present in the poster session at CCS 2010.

Arts and Science fellowship award, University of Pittsburgh, fall 2009. [Full tuition and stipend for grad

school.]

Certificate of Excellence from Microsoft Egypt (Smart Village) for contribution s in developing the

Partners/ISVs Bar Application, 2005.

Certificate of Honor from IEEE GOLD for contributions in the organization of the Egyptian Engineering

Day, August 2003.

Certificate of Honor for the Scientific Excellence from Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences,

Academic years 1999/2000 & 2000/2001, Ain Shams University, Egypt. [Ranked 1st among about 120

students.]

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh, School of Science & Arts

Department of Computer Science

Graduate Research Assistant May 2011 present

January 2010 April 2011

Teaching Assistant

Duties include teaching lab recitations, assisting students in their projects, and evaluating the students

performance through the whole course work.

Courses:

CS0445 (Data Structures)

CS1520 (Programming Languages for Web Applications)

Ain Shams University, Faculty of Computer &

Information Sciences, Cairo, Egypt

Teaching Assistant September 2002 August 2009

Duties as a teaching assistant included the planning, preparation a nd management of practical lab courses.

Instructed and assessed students performance in the labs and supervised several graduation projects.

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Courses:

Mobile Computing, Networks Security, Advanced Software Engineering, System Analysis & Design using UML,

Structured Programming, Electronics design, Simulation & Modeling, XML structures and web services,

Decision making and Crisis Management, Java programming, Web programming using ASP.Net.

Lecturer: June 2006 September 2006

Devised curriculum and lectured web development for first year students.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Secretary, Computer Science Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh (2011 12).

President of the International Students Fellowship (ISF), University of Pittsburgh (2009 12).

Member of Women in Computer Science organization (WiCS@Pitt).

Part-time system analyst for a project entitled Intelligent Information Discovery & Processing

System (IIDPS) Crawler Component, for HARF Information Technology, Egypt, 2009.

Participated within a team of three developers in the development of an educational security

package for the Institute of Technology and Industrial Developmen t, Egypt . The package included

three main modules: Data Encryption/Decryption Algorithms, Key Management, and Statistical Tests

Module (NIST standard), (2006 2008).

Supervised the graduation project of a group of students for academic year (2007/2008). The

project was Cryptographic Instant Messenger . The project was ranked as one of the top 50

projects among all educational institutes in Egypt, and was granted the prestigious Egyptian ITEDA

winning prize for year 2008.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING COURSES

Microteaching and Macroteaching Experiences (for small and large lecture formats): Faculty and

Leadership Development Project, April 2007.

Scientific Research Methodologies: Faculty and Leadership Development Project, September 2006.

Effective Thinking Skills: Faculty and Leadership Development Project, August 2006.

VHDL Design and Implementation: School of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science and

Technology and Maritime Transport, February 2006.

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