Post Doctoral Research Associate Nov **** — Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science Jan 2015 — May 2018

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering- Software Sep 2007 — Jan 2010 B.Sc. in Computer Engineering- Software Sep 2003 — June 2007 Masoud Barati

E-mail: adia0m@r.postjobfree.com § Phone: +447********* School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, CF24 3AA RESEARCH INTERESTS

Data privacy and security: Blockchain and smart contracts, Privacy-aware process patterns Formal methods: Formal verification, Process algebra, AI planning, Supervisory control theory Service discovery and composition

Semantic and ontology

Distributed systems: Wireless sensor networks, Cloud computing, Internet of things (IoT) TEACHING INTERESTS

Cybersecurity: Information security, Cryptography, Introduction to Blockchains and cryptocurrencies Software engineering: Software testing, Modelling, Formal methods in software development Theory of programming languages: Automata theory

Data structures and algorithms: Design and analysis of algorithms, Parallel algorithms Databases: Database systems implementation, Advanced databases EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Project: Privacy-aware cloud ecosystems

[Funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK (EPSRC – EP/R033293/1)] Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Thesis: Composition of dynamic components based on behavioral description GPA: 4.3/4.3

[Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)] Islamic Azad University of Arak, Iran

Thesis: A new semantic-supported decentralized algorithm for resource discovery in grid computing GPA: 17.24/20

Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah, Iran

Thesis: Design and implementation of an accounting software GPA: 16.03/20

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TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2020-2021: Teaching assistant, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Taught courses: Developing GDPR in online applications, An introduction to Blockchain technology, Privacy by design through business process models

2019-2020: Teaching assistant, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Taught courses: Business continuity & transformation, An introduction to Blockchain technology 2019: Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute, Querétaro, Mexico. Taught [intensive] course: Blockchain and smart contracts 2017-2018: Teaching assistant,Department of Computer Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada. Taught course: Formal methods in software engineering 2012-2014: Assistant professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kangavar, Iran. Role and responsibilities: Head of department, teaching and academic duties Taught courses: Software engineering, Programming languages, Operating systems, Artificial intelligence, Computer networks

2009-2014: Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran. Taught courses: Design and analysis of algorithms, Cybersecurity, Databases, Programming languages 2010-2014: Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, Payam Noor University, Kermanshah, Iran. Taught courses: Databases, Computer networks, Cybersecurity, Artificial intelligence, Object-oriented programming

2010-2014: Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, Academic Centre for Education, Culture & Research

(ACECR) University, Kermanshah, Iran.

Taught courses: Software engineering, Data structures and algorithms, Information security and cryptography 2011-2012: Lecturer, Department of Information Technology, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran.

Taught course: Programming languages

PUBLICATIONS

Journals:

M. Barati and O. Rana, Tracking GDPR compliance in cloud-based service delivery, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2020.2999559 G. S. Aujla, M. Barati, O. Rana, S. Dustdar, A. Noor, J. T. Llanos, M. Carr, D. Marikyan, S. Papagiannidis and R. Ranjan, COM-PACE: Compliance-aware cloud application engineering using Blockchain, IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 24, pp. 45–53, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MIC.202******** I. Petri, M. Barati, R. Yacine and O. Rana, Blockchain for energy sharing and trading in distributed prosumer communities, Computers in Industry, vol. 123, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2020.103282 M. Barati, O. Rana, I. Petri and G. Theodorakopoulous, GDPR compliance verification in Internet of things, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 119697–119709, 2020.

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M. Barati and O. Rana, Privacy aware cloud ecosystems: Architecture and performance, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2020. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5852 M. Barati, A formal technique for composing cloud services, Information Technology and Control, vol. 49, pp. 5–27, 2020.

M. Seifikar, S. Farzi and M. Barati, C-Blondel: An efficient Louvain-based dynamic community detection algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 7, pp. 308–318, 2020. M. Barati and R. Alizadeh, A new method for resource discovery in a grid resource service chain, International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing, vol. 7, pp. 21–32, 2014. M. Barati, S. Lotfi and A. Rahmati, A Fault Tolerance Algorithm for Resource Discovery in Semantic Grid Computing Using Task Agents, Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, vol. 7, pp. 256–263, 2014. C. Asgari, R. R. Torkashvand and M. Barati, A learning automata-based algorithm using stochastic minimum spanning tree for improving life time in wireless sensor networks, International Journal of Physical Sciences, vol. 8, pp. 868–875, 2013.

M. Barati and E. Akbari, A backbone formation and learning automata-based algorithm for improving life time in wireless sensor networks, Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, vol. 3, pp. 75–86, 2012.

A. Esfandyari and M. Barati, A new semantic service discovery in service oriented architecture (SOA), International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Information Security, vol. 3, pp. 33–40, 2012. M. Barati and J. Sajadi, A learning automata based and multicast routing energy efficiency algorithm using minimum spanning tree for wireless sensor networks, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Science, vol. 5, pp. 239–248, 2011.

Conferences:

M. Barati, G. Theodorakopoulos and O. Rana, Automating GDPR compliance verification for cloud-hosted services, IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, Montreal, Canada, October 2020.

M. Barati and O. Rana, Enhancing user privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and blockchain, in Blockchain Trustworthy Systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1156, Z. Zheng, H. N. Dai, M. Tang, and X. Chen, eds. Singapore: Springer, pp. 322–335, 2019. M. Barati, I. Petri and O. Rana, Developing GDPR compliant user data policies for Internet of things, in Proc. of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility Cloud Computing, pp. 133–141, 2019. M. Barati, O. Rana, G. Theodorakopoulos and P. Burnap, Privacy-aware cloud ecosystems and GDPR compliance, in Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Future Internet Things Cloud (FiCloud), pp. 117–124, 2019.

M. Barati and R. St-Denis, Team formation through preference-based behavior composition, Multiagent System Technologies, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, vol. 10413, pp. 54–71, 2017.

M. Barati and R. St-Denis, Behavior composition meets supervisory control, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Hong Kong, pp. 115–120, 2016. M. Barati and R. St-Denis, Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework, in Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunication and Control Systems, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 1–7, 2015.

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M. Barati and R. St-Denis, An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing, in Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Network of the Future, Montreal, Canada, 6 pages, 2015.

M. Barati and R. St-Denis, A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition, in Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet Technologies & Applications, Wrexham, United Kingdom, pp. 113–118, 2015.

M. Barati, S. Lotfi and S. Khaksar, A new semantic role-based access control model for cloud computing, in Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2014, Paris, France, 2014.

P. Rahimzadeh, R. Alizadeh and M. Barati, A decentralized resource discovery method in economic grid, 3rd National Conference on Computer Engineering and Information Technology (CEIT2011), Hamedan, Iran, 2011. [In persian]

P. Rahimzadeh and M. Barati, An agent-based resource discovery algorithm in economic grid,16th National Conference on Computer Society of Iran (CSI 2011), Sharif university, Tehran, Iran, 2011. [In persian]

P. Rahimzadeh, M. Barati and R. alizadeh, A new semantic-supported and agent-based decentralized algorithm for resource discovery in economic grid, in Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering, China, 2010. M. Mohamadi, M. Amini and M. Barati, Using intelligent agents for improving economic activities, 1st National Conference on Economic Development, Tehran, Iran, 2009. [In persian] Technical report:

A. Aljeraisy, M. Barati, O. Rana and C. Perera, Exploring the relationship between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: A comparative analysis, Cardiff University, 2020. REVIEWED JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES

Journals:

Computers & Security [Elsevier]

Journal of Information Science [SAGE]

The Journal of Supercomputing [Springer]

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovations Neural Computing and Applications [Springer]

Applied Sciences [MDPI]

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities [Oxford Academic] Conferences:

Technical program committee member and chair of International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW) 2016-2020

Technical program committee member of IEEE International Conference on Applied Science and Advanced Technology (ICASAT) 2019-2020

International Conference on Big data Analysis and Data Mining 2020 Masoud Barati 4

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Newcastle University: Developing a trusted container for cloud computing University College London: Investigating legal regulations legislated for data privacy Interscience Institute of Management and Technology, India: Cybersecurity mentor Industries: Airbus, Simudyne, FlexiOps, T-Mobile [Proposing privacy-aware solutions using Blockchain] SUPERVISION

PhD student: Atheer Aljeraisy, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff university, UK

[ongoing]

Master student: Taha Ghasemi, Department of Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran [ongoing]

Master student: Mahsa Seifikar, Department of Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran [submitted]

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages:

Programming languages: C++, Ruby, Solidity, Visual C#, Visual Basic.Net, Python Tools:

Model checking tools:

Symbolic model verifier (SMV)

Temporal logic verifier (TLV)

UPPAAL

Simulation tools: NS2 simulator

Linear programming package (PuLP)

Blockchain test networks:

Public Ethereum test networks: Ropsten, Rinkeby, Kovan, RPC Local Ethereum test networks: Ganache

Private Blockchain networks: Hyperledger Fabric

HONORS

The best paper award: Enhancing user privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and blochchain, International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys), Dec 2019 Invited talk: Cybersecurity Education & Research Conference (CERC 2020), Kuwait, Nov 2020 Keynote speaker: IEEE International Conference on Applied Science and Advanced Technology (ICASAT), Queretaro, Mexico, Nov 2019

The well-deserving PhD student in the faculty of science at Sherbrooke university, Dec 2015 The second rank in the M.Sc. degree, Feb 2010

The third rank in the B.Sc. degree, May 2008

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GRANTS

Fully funded fellowship from NSERC during my PhD program (2015–2018) Scholarship from EPSRC (2018–2021)

Fund from EU INTERREG piSCES 2019

REFERENCES

Omer Rana: Full Professor, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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Richard St-Denis: Full Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Phone: +1-819-***-**** adia0m@r.postjobfree.com George Theodorakopoulos: Associate Professor, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Phone: +44(0)292******* adia0m@r.postjobfree.com Ioan Petri: Assistant professor, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Phone: +44(0)292*******

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Rahim Alizadeh: Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

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