Amin Milani Fard
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Amin Milani Fard

Google Scholar ID: PFSTxr4AAAAJ
Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology - Vancouver, Canada
Software AnalysisSoftware EngineeringAI/MLSecurity and Privacy
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Publications
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Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Explainable Malware Analysis
2026
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SPARK: Secure Predictive Autoscaling for Robust Kubernetes
2026
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Are AI-assisted Development Tools Immune to Prompt Injection?
2026
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Auditing MCP Servers for Over-Privileged Tool Capabilities
2026
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Model Context Protocol Threat Modeling and Analyzing Vulnerabilities to Prompt Injection with Tool Poisoning
2026
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Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals
2025
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The Software Infrastructure Attitude Scale (SIAS): A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Professionals' Attitudes Toward Technical and Sociotechnical Infrastructure
2025
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Adaptive Temporal Fusion Transformers for Cryptocurrency Price Prediction
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • - 2023: Most Influential Paper Award, IEEE SCAM 2023
  • - 2023: Presidential Excellence Award Finalist (Excellence in Teaching), NYIT
  • - 2022 - 2021: NYIT-Vancouver Research Grant
  • - 2019: Best Paper Award, ECIR 2019
  • - 2018 - 2019: Global Faculty Research and Creativity Grant, NYIT
  • - 2017: IEEE Best Paper Award Nominee, IEEE ICST 2017
  • - 2016: NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) Grant
  • - 2015 - 2014: ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Grant Award
  • - 2016 - 2013: NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D)
  • - 2012: Four Year Fellowship Award, UBC
  • - 2013 - 2012: Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award, UBC
  • - 2010: Graduate Fellowship Award, SFU
  • - 2008: 2nd place, Khwarizmi National Robotics Competition
  • - 2008: 4th place, IEEE Robotics Competition
  • - 2007: 9th place, RoboCup International Robotics Competition, Soccer Simulation
  • - 2007: 19th place, Asia Regional ACM ICPC Programming Contest
  • - 2006: 5th place, BICup: Business Intelligence Data Mining Challenge
  • - 2003: Exceptional Talents Admission Award, FUM
  • - 2002: Research Medal, National Research Inst. for Science Policy, Ministry of Science
  • - 2002: 1st Rank Khwarizmi Award, Awarded by Iran's President Mohammad Khatami for outstanding achievement in research and innovation in science and technology, Khwarizmi Young Festival 2002
Research Experience
  • - 2023 - Present: Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology, Vancouver
  • - 2023 - 2018: Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology, Vancouver
  • - 2017 - Present: Visiting Faculty, Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business
  • - 2017 - 2012: Graduate Research Assistant, University of British Columbia, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • - 2012 - 2011: Research Associate, Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science
  • - 2011 - 2009: Research and Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Computer Software Engineering, University of British Columbia, Supervisor: Dr. Ali Mesbah, May 2012 - Jan 2017
  • - M.Sc. in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Supervisor: Dr. Ke Wang, Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
  • - B.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Sep 2003 - Jul 2008
Background
  • - Research Interests: Security, Privacy, and Assurance of Software and Information, as well as Data and Business Analytics
  • - Positions: Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology, Vancouver Campus, and a non-regular visiting faculty of Management Information Systems at Simon Fraser University