University of

University of Oregon

Sharif University of Technology

Software Engineer at Twitter

San Francisco, California, United States

Twitter

Software Engineer

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Emberex, Inc.

Software Developer

Designed and implemented a secure provenance system for the cloud infrastructure.
Explored and studied virtualization and discovered new vulnerabilities which allowed co-residency detection and creation of side channels.

Osiris

Research Assistant

Performed a survey study on privacy and security of users and personal information leakage in existing online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

TECHNICOLOR (THOSMON) RESEARCH LAB

Research Intern

Research Fellow

Assisted in "Information Processing", "Web Programming", and "Multimedia and Web Design" courses.
My responsibilities were conducting lab sessions, designing and grading problem sets, and supervising problem solving classes.

Teaching Assistant

Designed and implemented a technique to measure and characterize connectivity structure and user activity in large-scale and dynamic networked systems - early results of this project brought us $355,000 NSF research grant (Grant No. 0917381).
Developed an experimentally efficient distributed web crawler in Python (under UNIX) for collecting data from social network web servers such as Twitter and LiveJournal. It easily launches on PlanetLab servers to crawl the target system.

MIRAGE RESEARCH GROUP

Performed a survey on application of Game Theory on ad hoc networks. I used Game Theoretical concepts and techniques in my thesis to extend proposed models for ad hoc networks.

Masoud Valafar