Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2022 and the William C. Carter Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Dependability in 2017. Recent grants on safety and security assurance of ML-enabled CPS for emergency response and autonomous driving. New papers on Runtime Stealthy Perception Attacks against ADAS, Real-Time Surgical Activity Prediction, and Multimodal EMS Cognitive Assistants. Co-organizing the IFIP WG 10.4 Workshop on Trustworthy ML-Enabled CPS.
Research Experience
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. I am also affiliated with the LinkLab, a multi-disciplinary research center for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Before joining UVA, I was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, where I worked in the DEPEND group within the Coordinated Science Laboratory; B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran.
Background
My research interests are at the intersection of computer systems dependability and data science. I am particularly interested in combined model and data-driven resilience assessment and design of embedded and cyber-physical systems, with a focus on safety and security validation and monitoring in medical devices and systems, surgical robots, and autonomous systems.
Miscellany
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