Here is my short CV (Should you need the full one, feel free to contact me):
Education
PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Queen's University
MSc in Computer Science from University of Tehran
BASc in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University
Publications
Saeed Shafieian, Daniel Smith, Mohammad Zulkernine, "Detecting DNS Tunneling Using Ensemble Learning", Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS-2017), Helsinki, Finland, August 2017.
Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, Anwar Haque, "CloudZombie: Launching and Detecting Slow-Read Distributed Denial of Service Attacks from the Cloud", Proc. of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC-2015), Liverpool, UK, October 2015.
Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, Anwar Haque, "Attacks in Public Clouds; Can They Hinder the Rise of the Cloud?", Cloud Computing, pp. 3-22, Springer, 2014.
Saeed Shafieian, Ying Zou, "Comparison of Clone Detection Techniques," Technical Report 2012-593, School of Computing, Queen's University, August 2012.
Saeed Shafieian, H. Ahrabian and A. Nowzari-Dalini, "Ordered Tree Alignment with Genetic Programming," Advanced Modeling and Optimization, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 63-79, 2008.
Saeed Shafieian, "RNA Secondary Structures Alignment with Genetic Programming," Proc. of the 5th National Biotechnology Congress of Iran, Iran Summit Hall, Tehran, Iran, November 2007.
Saeed Shafieian, "Ordered Tree Alignment with Genetic Programming," MSc Thesis, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2006.
Saeed Shafieian, "Design and Implementation of a Three Tier Web Application for Hotel Keeping," BSc Thesis, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2003.
Research Projects
Evaluating Amazon EC2’s Scalability using TPC-W Benchmark
School of Computing, Queen's University (2012)
Under supervision of: Dr. Pat Martin
Comparison of Clone Detection Techniques
School of Computing, Queen's University (2011)
Under supervision of: Dr. Ying Zou
A Survey on Database Encryption: Queries on Encrypted Data
School of Computing, Queen's University (2011)
Under supervision of: Dr. Pat Martin
CARL: The Completely Autonomous Robotic Lifesaver
School of Computing, Queen's University (2011)
Under supervision of: Dr. Juergen Dingel
Analyzing dependencies among sub-relations of a cyclically constrained database relation and its decomposition method (2004-2005)
Under a research grant from Shahid Beheshti University
Supervisor: Prof. S.M.T. Rouhani Rankoohi
Awards and Achievements
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2014-2015)
Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award (2014)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2013-2014)
Queen's Graduate Award (2012)
Queen's Graduate Award (2011)
M.Sc. thesis grant from Iran’s Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (SCICT) (2005)
Ranked 29th in the graduate entrance examination, among thousands of applicants (2003)
Ranked 303rd in the national university entrance examination, among tens of thousands of applicants (1998)
Professional Service
Reviewer for the 10th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems (WOSIS 2013), France
Reviewer for the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 2012
Reviewer for the NTMS 2012, 5th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Turkey
Reviewer for the NCSCIT 2011, 1st National Conference on Soft Computing and Information Technology, Iran
Teaching Experience (Lecturer)
Database, Azad University
Internet Engineering, Azad University
Object Oriented System Design, Azad University
Advanced Programming, Azad University
Computer Programming, Azad University
B.Sc. Project, Azad University
Advanced Database Systems, Private institute
Advanced Algorithms, Private institute
Teaching Experience (TA)
Fundamentals of Web and Mobile Applications, Queen's University, Fall 2014
Software Quality Assurance, Queen's University, Fall 2012
Affiliations
Registered Engineering Intern (EIT) with the Professional Engineers Ontario
