Assistant Electrical Engineering

Arash Molavi Kakhki

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Information

Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave.

Boston, MA 02115 USA

PhD in Computer Science Expected 2015

Education

Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

Advisor: Alan Mislove.

Concentration: social networks, online security and privacy.

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Oct 2008

Imperial College London, London, UK.

Dissertation: Communications and Signal Processing (Dissertation: Interference cancellation for

single-user MIMO radio link ).

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering May 2007

Sharif University of Technology, Teran, Iran.

Concentration: Telecommunications.

Python, C/C++, JavaScript, MATLAB, MySQL, PhantomJS, Selenium, Embedded C, HTML,

Computer Skills

Scheme/Racket (and PLT Redex), Shell Programming, L TEX.

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Object-oriented design and development.

Linux, Mac OX, Windows.

Optimization solvers: CPLEX, lp splve, MATLAB Optimization Toolbox, CVX, MOSEK.

Research Assistant Sep 2010 - Present

Academic

College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Experience

Research Projects:

Development of a browser extension to measure personalization on Google search by outsourcing

web searches to Skype contact list (implemented using JavaScript, Python, Chrome extension

API, WebSocket API, Skype API ), in progress.

Iolaus: Securing online content rating systems a system that leverages the underlying social

network of online content rating systems to defend against Sybil attacks and rate-buying. (im-

plemented using Python, C++, MySQL Databases ).

Measuring personalization on web search engines (utilized JavaScript, Python, PhantomJS, Se-

lenium ).

Designed and built low power embedded systems for a research team at Civil Engineering de-

partment studying progressive collapse in buildings (utilized C/C++, Embedded C ).

Teaching Assistant Aug 2011 - Dec 2011

College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Course: Algorithms and Data Structure

Instructed 80 students weekly on C++ in a computer lab setting.

Maintained o ce hours and provided one-on-one support for students. Substituted for professor

in lecture class as needed.

Research Assistant Aug 2009 - Jun 2010

Information Processing and Algorithms Lab, The Pennsylvania State University

Color Lookup-Table Optimization for color transformation between multi-dimensional color spaces.

Utilized MATLAB, and CVX.

Arash Molavi Kakhki, Chloe Kilman-Silver, Alan Mislove: Iolaus: Securing online content

Publications

rating systems, 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 13).

A. Hannak, P. Sapiezynski, A. Molavi Kakhki, B. Krishnamurthy, D. Lazer, A. Mislove, C.

Wilson, Measuring Personalization of Web Search, 22nd International World Wide Web Confer-

ence (WWW 13).

Arash Molavi Kakhki, Aniko Hannak, Alan Mislove, Ravi Sundaram: Mitigating Sybil attacks

on content rating systems (Poster Paper), SOSP 2011.

Arash Molavi Kakhki, H. Reza Karimi: A comparison of linear and non-linear transmitter

and receiver antenna array processing for interference nulling and diversity with non-zero CSI

feedback delay, ACM IWCMC 2009.

Extreme Swarm

Selected

Developed software to control an unmanned drone (Parrot AR. Drone) by brain signals read

Projects

from a neuro-signal acquisition headset (Emotiv Epoc).

Utilized C++ (Windows Visual Studio).

Click here for demo video.

Web crawler

Developed an automated web crawler to scrape data from Yelp.com.

Utilized Python, JavaScript, Selenium, PhantomJS, MySQL.

Anonymous le system

Implemented an anonymous le system (for use in voting systems which retains no ordering

information for les written to it and provides a write-only interface for inserting ballots).

Used FUSE and based on FAT le system.

Automated E-Mail Spoofer

Developed a SMTP-spoo ng engine in Python.

Class system for PLT Redex

Modeled and implemented a class system (classes and mixins) as macro for PLT Redex.

Advanced Algorithms, Intensive Computer Systems, Special Topics in Networks, Special Topics in

Graduate

Security, Intensive Principles of Programming Languages, Theory of Computation.

Courses

Student Poster Competition Finalist Nov 2012

Other

2nd Annual Advanced Cyber Security Center Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Student volunteer at IEEE SECON Conference 2010, Boston Jun 2010

Winner of ICFS Entrepreneurship Challenge Jul 2008

Entrepreneurship Challenge by the Finance Society of Imperial College London.

Collaborated in a team of 6 peers to propose a business plan for a new robot produced by Boston

Dynamics (Big Dog).

Playing the Caj n (peruvian drum box), and electronic drum set.

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Interests/

Squash (Played in Iran s National Squash League, Imperial College Squash Club, and The Penn

Activities

State Squash Tournament).

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