SHORT CV

 

Education


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),
   
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Aug 2004 - Jan 2011.
    Thesis: Assuring Robustness of Ratio Spectrum Telemetry Against Vandalism and Exploitation (PDF).
    Prof. Carl Gunter's blog on my PhD work.
 

Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran.
   
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Major: Software Engineering, Sep 2000-Jul 2004.
        Ranked 3rd in GPA (18.1/20.0) among 85 students in the class of 2004.
        Ranked 123th among 350,398 participants in Iran's annual nationwide university entrance exam in 2000.
 

Experience


Technical Program Manager, Windows Kernel Team, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, Oct 2011 - Present.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science at UIUC (under Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher), Feb 2011- Oct 2011.

Research Assistant, Illinois Security Lab, May 2005-Jan 2011.

Technical Program Manager Intern, Windows Kernel Team, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, May-Aug 2010.

Technology Intern, Morgan Stanley, New York, NY, May-Aug 2008.

Research Intern, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, Jun-Aug 2006.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    Course: Computer Security Architecture, Spring 2005.
    Course: Information Assurance, Fall 2004, Fall 2009.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Sharif University of Technology.
    Course: Computer Networks, Spring 2004.
    Course: Computer Structure and Language, Fall 2003.

Thesis / Journal Publications
 

Assuring Robustness of Radio Spectrum Telemetry Against Vandalism and Exploitation
Omid Fatemieh
Doctoral Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2011.

Adaptive Selective Verification: An Efficient Adaptive Countermeasure to Thwart DoS Attacks
S. Khanna, S. Venkatesh, O. Fatemieh, F. Khan, C. A. Gunter
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2011.

Attribute-based Messaging: Access Control and Confidentiality
(first three authors alphabetical) R. Bobba, O. Fatemieh, F. Khan, A. Khan, C. A. Gunter, H. Khurana, M. Prabhakaran
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC Journal), 2010.

A Comprehensive Review of the Book Discovering Knowledge in Data: An Introduction to Data Mining
O. Fatemieh
Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan 2006.

Conference and Workshop Proceedings
 

Reliable Telemetry in White Spaces using Remote Attestation
O. Fatemieh, M. LeMay, C. A. Gunter
2011 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '11), Orlando, FL, Dec 2011.

On Bayesian Interpretation of Fact-finding in Information Networks
D. Wang, T. Abdelzaher, H. Ahmadi, J. Pasternack, D. Roth, M. Gupta, J. Han, O. Fatemieh, H. Le, C. Aggrawal
14th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion '11), Chicago, IL, July 2011.

Using Classification to Protect the Integrity of Spectrum Measurements in White Space Networks
O. Fatemieh, A. Farhadi, R. Chandra, C. A. Gunter
18th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '11), San Diego, CA, Feb 2011. [PPT] [BIB]

Reconstructing Hash Reversal-Based Proof of Work Schemes
J. Green, J. Juen, O. Fatemieh, R. Shankesi, D. Jin and C. A. Gunter
4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '11), Boston, MA, March 2011.

Low Cost and Secure Smart Meter Communications using the TV White Spaces
O. Fatemieh, R. Chandra, C. A. Gunter
IEEE International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS '10), Idaho Falls, ID, Aug 2010. [PPT] [BIB]

Secure Collaborative Sensing for Crowdsoucing Spectrum Data in White Space Networks
O. Fatemieh, R. Chandra, C. A. Gunter
IEEE Symposia on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN '10), Singapore, Apr 2010. [BIB]

Nimble Clients Thwart Versatile DDoS Adversaries
S. Khanna, S. Venkatesh, O. Fatemieh, F. Khan, C. A. Gunter
Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA, Feb 2009.

Adaptive Selective Verification
S. Khanna, S. Venkatesh, O. Fatemieh, F. Khan, and C. Gunter
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '08), Phoenix, AZ, Apr 2008.
[PPT] [BIB]

PolicyMorph: Interactive Policy Transformations for a Logical Attribute-Based Access Control Framework
M. LeMay, O. Fatemieh, and C. Gunter
ACM Symposium on Access Control Models And Technologies (SACMAT '07), Sophia Antipolis, France, Jun 2007. [PPT] [BIB]

Using Attribute-Based Access Control to Enable Attribute-Based Messaging
(first three authors alphabetical) R. Bobba, O. Fatemieh, F. Khan, C. Gunter, and H. Khurana
IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '06) , Miami, FL, Dec 2006. [PPT] [BIB]

Technical Reports, Posters, and Demos
 

Distilling Likely Truth from Noisy Streaming Data with Apollo
H. Le, D.Wang, H. Ahmadi, and M. Uddin, B. Szymanski, R. Ganti, T. Abdelzaher, O. Fatemieh, H. Wang, J. Pasternack, J. Han, D. Roth, S. Adali, H. Lei, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Seattle, WA, Nov 2011.

Resource Inflation Threats to Denial of Service Countermeasures
R. Shankesi, O. Fatemieh, C. A. Gunter
UIUC Technical Report, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17372, Oct 2010.

Adaptive DoS Defense
O. Fatemieh, F. Khan, M. Greenwald, C. A. Gunter, S. Khanna, J. Messeguer, S. Venkatesh,
Poster at Midwest Security Workshop (MSW), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Apr 2007.

Attribute Based Messaging
O. Fatemieh, R. Bobba, F. Khan, C. A. Gunter, and H. Khurana
Poster at ITI Workshop on Dependability and Security, Information Trust Institute, Urbana, IL, Dec 2005.

Self-Diagnosing Logical Access Controls
M. LeMay, O. Fatemieh, S. Katasani, N. Borisov, and C. A. Gunter
Poster at ITI Workshop on Dependability and Security, Information Trust Institute, Urbana, IL, Dec 2005.

Selected Graduate-level Coursework


Computer Systems / Networking / Security: : Advanced Computer Security, Computer Security Architecture, Advanced Computer Networking, Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Machine Learning / Data Mining / Probability and Statistics: : Machine Learning, Data Mining, Probability and Statistics, Database Systems, Information Retrieval.

Other: Compilers and Programming Languages, Combinatorial Algorithms, Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems.