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Education

• Ph.D in Computer Engineering, Boston University, 2023 (expected)
• M.S. in Information Technology, Amirkabir University of Tech., 2013
• B.S. in Software Engineering, Isfahan University of Tech., 2009

Work experience

• Reserach Assistant
  • Boston University
  • Duties included: Research on security of PHP application through integrated analysis of the PHP interpreter and web apps
  • Supervisor: Professor Manuel Egele
• Research Assistant
  • Amirkabir University of Tech.
  • Duties included: Designing multi-party computation protocols
  • Supervisor: Professor Babak Sadeghian

Skills

• Programming Languages
  • Python, C/C++, Go Lang, Java, PHP
• Vulnerability Detection
  • Fuzzing
  • Static/Dynamic taint analysis
  • Source-code Auditing
• Tools
  • Burp, Docker, Metasploit, SQLMap, Wireshark, gdb, Rabbitmq

Publications

Hardware performance counters can detect malware: Myth or fact?

B Zhou, A Gupta, R Jahanshahi, M Egele, and A Joshi. Hardware performance counters can detect malware: myth or fact?. Proceedings of Asia conference on computer and communications security (Asia CCS). 2018

You shall not pass: Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks on Legacy Web Applications

R Jahanshahi, A Doupe, and M Egele. You shall not pass: Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks on Legacy Web Applications. Proceedings of Asia conference on computer and communications security (Asia CCS). 2020

Saphire: Sandboxing PHP Applications with Tailored System Call Allowlists.

A Bulekov, R Jahanshahi, and M Egele. Saphire: Sandboxing PHP Applications with Tailored System Calls Allowlists. USENIX Security Symposium. 2021

Minimalist: Semi-automated Debloating of PHP Web Applications through Static Analysis

R Jahanshahi, Babak Amin Azad, Nick Nikiforakis, and M Egele. Minimalist: Semi-automated Debloating of PHP Web Applications through Static Analysis. USENIX Security Symposium. 2023

Talks

You shall not pass: Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks on Legacy Web Applications

October 05, 2020

Conference proceedings talk at Asia CCS, Taipei, Taiwan

Service and leadership

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2020)
• Artifact reviewer for Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (2017, 2018)