Welcome!

I am a 5^th year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University. My research interest includes security of distributed and web applications; in particular, I'm interested in applying modern cryptographic techniques to enhance the security and privacy of web 2.0 and cloud-based applications. My research advisors are Danfeng Yao and Vinod Gnapathy.

I received my Master's degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology in May 2005 and my Bachelor's degree from Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education in May 2001.

Publications:

• "K2C: Cryptographic Cloud Storage With Lazy Revocation and Anonymous Access'', In Proceedings of the 7th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Sep. 2011. London, UK. (Acceptance rate: 24%). (paper)
• "Web2ID: An Identity Management Solution For Mashups and Webtops'', 2010 , IDIS Journal (paper)
• "Privacy-aware identity management for client-side mashup applications'', In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management (DIM). Collocated with ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). Chicago, IL. Nov. 2009., Pages 21-30 (paper, slides)
• "OMOS: A Framework for Secure Communication in Mashup Applications'', Proceedings of the 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,  December 8-12, 2008, Anaheim, California, USA, Pages 355-364 (Acceptance rate: 22%) (paper, slides, press CTRL-L in Adobe Reader for slide-show)
• "Optimization of Online Disk Scheduling Algorithms'', ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 33 , Issue 4 (March 2006), Pages: 42-46 (paper)

Open Source Projects:

Below I list some of the open source projects that I initiated. (Feel free to use them for non-comertial purposes, provided you give the proper credit to their author. But, please let me know how you are using them; this will also encourage me to spend more time on improving them ;-) )

• KP-ABE Crypto. Library -- Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption  [Java]
• HIBE Crypto. Library -- Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption [Java]
• K2C -- A cryptographic access control protocol for untrusted cloud services [Java]
• Zaranux -- A Linux-based webtop [Java, Javascript, GWT (Google Web toolkit)]
• OMOS -- A secure Mashup development framework [Javascript, GWT (Google Web toolkit)]
• Web2ID -- An identity management solution for Web 2.0 applications [Javascript, GWT (Google Web toolkit)]