Hola! I’m Mahshid!
I am a security engineering researcher passionate about hands-on system security and solving real-world security challenges. With a background in Software Engineering, I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, where I focused on the security of contactless payment systems. With over five years of experience in system security, threat modeling, and secure architecture design, I have worked on securing a wide range of technologies, including payment systems, IoT, Edge-AI, and connected autonomous vehicles. Currently, I am a Cyber Systems Engineering Research Fellow at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) within the Secure Cyber Systems Research (SCSR) group.
News
- December 2023: Defended PhD viva successfully.
- October 2023: Started Research Fellow position at WMG, Warwick University, working with Prof. Carsten Maple and Dr. Gregory Epiphonia.
- September 2023: Submitted PhD thesis “on the security of contactless payment systems”.
- September 2023: Attended and presented at FOSAD summer school, Bertinoro, Italy.
- August 2023: Won Best Student Paper Award for the paper Security Analysis of mobile Point-of-Sale (mPoS) Terminals at 17th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS), Universitry of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
- June 2023: Our paper Security Analysis of mobile Point-of-Sale (mPoS) Terminals published at NSS’23.
- December 2022: Won Best Presentation Award at the Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science (WPCCS) Conference, “Computer Security and Network” track, WPCCS’22.
- December 2021: Won Best Presentation Award at the Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science (WPCCS), “Computer Security and Network” track, WPCCS’21.
- August 2021: Our paper OPay: an Orientation-based Contactless Payment Solution Against Passive Attacks published at ACSAC’21.
- June 2021: Completed SEED Workshop’21, a 10-week training bootcamp based on Seed Labs, Online.
- February 2021: Our paper Joint Peak Clipping and Load Scheduling Based on User Behavior Monitoring in an IoT Platform won the best paper award in the department of computer science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
- December 2020: Won Best Presentation Award at the Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science (WPCCS), “Computer Security and Network” track, WPCCS’20.
- December 2020: Won the 1st place in Capture the Flag (CTF) Group Competition (Trinity) at ACE-CSR Winter School.
- May 2020: our paper Joint Peak Clipping and Load Scheduling Based on User Behavior Monitoring in an IoT Platform published at IEEE Systems Journal.
- November 2019: Started PhD in Computer Science at University of Warwick, under the supervision of Prof. Feng Hao.
- February 2019: Graduated from MSc degree in Software Engineering (IoT Systms) with distinction (top student).
- December 2017: Our paper A Child Recognition System based on Image Selection Patterns published at STAST’17.
- September 2016: Started Msc degree in Software Engineering (IoT Systems) at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran.
- August 2016: Won the 35th placr in the Finals of the 21st National Computer Science Olympiad Competition.
- May 2016: Won 5th place in Semi-finals of the 21st National Computer Science Olympiad Competition.
- April 2016: Graduated from BSc degree in Software Engineering with distinction (top student).
- September 2012: Started BSc degree in Software Engineering at Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.