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Dr Zahra Pooranian

Picture of Dr Zahra Pooranian

Office

 Room 134

Building location

Polly Vacher

Areas of interest

  • Security and Data Privacy
  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Cloud/Fog Computing
  • Smart Grid Systems
  • Applied AI/ML and Optimization

Teaching

  • Big Data & Cloud Computing
  • Object-Oriented Programming

Research centres and groups

 

Background

Zahra has been a lecturer in Computer Science at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø since August 2023. Zahra Pooranian was a postdoctoral fellow in Network Security at the 5GIC & 6GIC, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK since 2020 to July 2023. Zahra has participated in/contributed to two projects: PASSCOINFOG (funded by Huawei-finalized) and AUTOTRUST (Funded by European Space Agency-ongoing). Before, she was a postdoctoral at The Alan Turing Institute and worked on National Privacy Project in London, UK. She was working on Enhancing Security and Privacy of National Identity Systems project. From 2017 to 2019, she was postdoctoral in network security under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Conti at the University of Padua, Padua, Italy. She was part of the Security and Privacy Through Zeal (SPRITZ) research group and worked on a European H2020 project, TagItSmart! - Smart Tags-driven service platform for enabling ecosystems of connected objects. Her main activities include but are not limited to cloud/fog storage security and privacy and applying AI/ML techniques for malware detection. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in February 2017. She was honored to be supervised by Prof. Enrico Tronci on Automating Design of Smart Grid Systems. Besides, she was involved in the FP7 project SmartHG (Energy Demand Aware Open Services for Smart Grid Intelligent Automation).

Academic qualifications

  • University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy, PhD, Computer Science, 2014-2017

Awards and honours

AWARDS:

  •  Research Fellow at, , Pisa, Italy, (September 2023-August 2024)

  • Visiting Research Associate Fellowship, , Toronto, ON, Canada, (May 2019-October 2019)

  • Research Associate Fellowship, European H2020 Support, , Padua, Italy, (May 2017-May 2019)
  • PhD Scholarship, European FP7 Support - , Rome, Italy, (February 2014-February 2017)
  • Review Certificate Award in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), (27 October 2016)

INVITED TALKS:

  • [December 2020] Invited Speaker, virtual event organized by the National University of Chimborazo (Ecuador), speaking about “Side-Channel Attack in Cloud Storage.â€

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION:

  • IEEE INFOCOM workshop- Honolulu, USA, April 2018
  • IEEE SOFTCOM conference- Split, September 2016
  • IEEE ICFIT conference- Singapore, September 2011

HONORS AND CERTIFICATES:

  • Certificate LITEC-IRAN L.P.I, Sharif University, CCNA, March 2013
  • Certificate LITEC-IRAN L.P.I, Sharif University, CCNP, May 2013
  • Certificate LITEC-IRAN L.P.I, Sharif University, Web Design, June 2013

VISITING PERIODS:

  • , Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2019-October 2019

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • , Senior Member

Websites/blogs

Selected publications

1.Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, R. Taheri, R. Tafazolli. , IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2023.

2. Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, P. Asef, M. Robinson, H. Lees, M. Longden. , The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2023), Exeter, UK, 1-3 November 2023.

3. R. Baby, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, R. Tafazolli. , The 58th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, (IEEE ICC'23), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 01 June 2023.

4. M. Robinson, P. Asef, M. Shojafar, et al. , The IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies , London, UK, 19-21 May 2023.

5. M. Golmaryami, R. Taheri, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, P. Xiao. , ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), pp. 1-20, May 2022.

6. P. Haji Mirzaee, M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, P. Asef, H. Cruickshank, R. Tafazolli. , The 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking, (IEEE MSN 2021), Exeter, UK, 13-15 December 2021.

7. S. Soltani, M. Shojafar, H. Mostafaei, Z. Pooranian, R. Tafazolli. , The 17th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (IEEE CNSM 2021), pp.1-7, 25-29 October 2021.

8. Z. Pooranian, M. Conti, H. Haddadi, R. Tafazolli. , IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST), pp. 1-31, October 2021.

9. M. Golec, R. Ozturac, Z. Pooranian, S. Singh Gill, R. Buyya. , IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), pp. 1-8, July 2021.

10.Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, S. Garg, R. Taheri, R. Tafazolli. , IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), pp. 1-10, August 2020.

11. R. Taheri, R. Javidan, M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, A. Miri, M. Conti. , Springer, Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA), pp. 1-23, March 2020. 

12. R. Taheri, R. Javidan, Z. Pooranian. , Springer, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), pp. 1-12, February 2020.

13. R. Taheri, M. Ghahremani, R. Javidan, M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, M. Conti. , Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Vol. 105, pp. 230-247, April 2020.

14. P.G. Vineuza, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, M. Conti, R. Buyya. , Elsevier, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 132, pp. 274-283, October 2019.

15. M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, M. Sookhak, R. Buyya. , Wiley, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CPE), pp. 1-4, April 2019.

16. M. Shojafar, R. Taheri, Z. Pooranian, R. Javidan, A. Miri, Y. Jararweh. , The 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2019), Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp.1-8, 3-7 November 2019.

17. H. Mehdi, Z. Pooranian, P.G. Vineuza. , Wiley, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, pp. 3731, September 2019.

18. Z. Pooranian, J. H. Abawajy, Vinod P., M. Conti. , In (MDPI) Energies, Vol. 11, May 2018.

19. Z. Pooranian, K-Ch. Chen, Ch-Mu. Yu, M. Conti. , The 7th International workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (IEEE INFOCOM 2018 workshop: CCSNA 2018), Honolulu, USA, pp.444-449, 16-19 April 2018.

20. P.G. Vineuza, Z. Pooranian, Sh. Shamshirband, J. H. Abawajy, M. Conti. , In (MDPI) Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, December 2017.

21. Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, P.G. Vineuza, L. Chiaraviglio, M. Conti. , The 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2017), Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 605-609, 22-25 October 2017.

22. M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, P.G. Vineuza, E. Baccarelli. , Springer, Journal of Supercomputing (SUPE), pp. 1-22, June 2017.

23. P.G. Vineuza, M. Shojafar, H. Mostafaei, Z. Pooranian, E. Baccarelli. , Springer, Journal of Supercomputing (SUPE), Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 733-755, February 2017.

24. Z. Pooranian, N Nikmehr, S Najafi-Ravadanegh, H Mahdin, J Abawajy. , The 24th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (IEEE SOFTCOM), Split, Croatia, pp. 1-6, 22-24 September 2016.

25. Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, J. H. Abawajy, A. Abraham. , Springer, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO), Vol. 30, pp. 413-434, October 2015. 

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