I obtained my MASc from Concordia Univeristy, Montreal where I worked with Profs. Lingyu Wang and Suryadipta Majumdar. I was involved as a researcher in NSERC/Ericsson IRC in SDN/NFV Security project. My research focus is on optimal proactive attack detection and non-disruptive mitigation in cloud environment.

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Education

Concordia University
MASc in Information Systems Security (2020-2023)

Shahid Beheshti University
BSc and MSc in Computer Software Engineering (2013-2017)
Grade: Distinction (Received the “Direct MSc Award), under the “Exceptional Talents Program” for the top 5 students.

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Research Interests

I am interested in a wide range of topics in security and cloud.
My recent projects are focused on:

• AI-aided security
• Cloud/Container security
• VNF placement (optimization)

I would love to expand my research on the following topics, as I have a GREAT passion for psychology and social science:

• Usable security and privacy
• Human-Computer interaction
• Social computing, and social cybersecurity

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Academic Experience

Research Assistant
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Montreal, Canada
NSERC/Ericsson IRC in SDN/NFV Security Project

• Cost-Effective Approach to Proactive and Non-disruptive Attack Mitigation in Kubernetes Clusters (Role: project leader)
• Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers (Role: project team member)

Undergraduate & graduate Research Assistant
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

• Optimal Firewall Rule Composition and Decomposition in Cloud (Role: project leader)
• Software Project Estimation using Improved Use Case Point (focused on software development risks) (Role: project leader)

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Publications

• Warping the Defence Timeline: Non-disruptive Proactive Attack Mitigation for Kubernetes Clusters
  Sima Bagheri, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi (ICC 2023)
• ProSPEC: Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Mahmood Gholipourchoubeh, Sima Bagheri, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang (CODASPY 2022)
• Dynamic Firewall Decomposition and Composition in the Cloud
  Sima Bagheri, Alireza Shameli-Sendi, Journal of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS 2020)
• Software Project Estimation using Improved Use Case Point
  Sima Bagheri, Alireza Shameli-Sendi, (SERA 2018)

Under Review

• ACE-WARP: A Cost-Effective Approach to Proactive and Non-disruptive Attack Mitigation in Kubernetes Clusters
  Sima Bagheri, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Mohammad Ekramul Kabir, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
• PerfSPEC: Performance Profiling-based Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers
  Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Sima Bagheri, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

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Teaching

• Teaching Assistant
  • Concordia University
    • SOEN 321 (Information Systems Security): Tutor, Programmer on Duty (POD), Winter 2022
    • INSE 6130 (Operating System Security): Marker, Fall 2022
  • Shahid Beheshti University
    • Software Engineering I/II: Head TA (assignments, and project designer), Fall 2017, Winter 2018
    • Computer Networks: Head TA (assignments, and mini projects designer), Winter 2018

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Academic Service

• Technical Program Committee
  • International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2024)
• External Reviewer
  • Journal of Computers and Security
  • The Web Conference- Security, Privacy, and Trust track (WWW 2023)
  • European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2021)
• Conference and Workshop Organizer
  • Iranian Conference on Advances in Enterprise Architecture (ICAEA 2018)
  • Workshop on Enterprise Architecture Development in South Korea (2018)
• Mentor
  • Providing active guidance to undergraduate students at SBU (Currently 3 active mentees)

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Talks

• Warping the Defence Timeline: Non-disruptive Proactive Attack Mitigation for Kubernetes Clusters
  In: International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy (May 2023)
• Proactive Non-Disruptive Cluster-level Mitigation in Container-based Environment
  In: Quarterly research progress for the industrial partner, Ericsson Inc., Montreal, Canada (April 2022)
• Software Project Estimation using Improved Used Case Points
  In: IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, Kunming, China (June 2018)

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Awards

• Concordia university travel award (2023)
• Concordia graduate student association (GSA) conference funding (2023)
• Best undergraduate researcher student award with research paper (2017)
• Admitted as exceptional talent to MSc program (Exempted from National MSc entrance exam- Concour) (2017)

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Personal

I am a professional cook, and food passion is in my DNA! I am kinda health nut as well and love discussing on social/psychological topics, meditating, running, and gardening.