Aziz Mohaisen

4-192 keller hall, 200 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
email: mohaisen@cs.umn.edu

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where I work with Prof. Yongdae Kim (adviser) and Prof. Nicholas Hopper. My dissertation work explores understanding social networks for trustworthy computing and has been supported by a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. I am interested in systems security and data privacy in many contexts including:

• Social networks: [IMC10] [INFOCOM11] [ICC12] [SocialCloud (Media: MIT TR among others)] [AsiaCCS12]
• Online privacy: ongoing work (applications of location privacy, business intelligence, etc)
• Internet security: [NDSS11] (Media: New Scientist , Slashdot, CBS News, The Register, and others)
• Sensor networks: sample work [INFOCOM12] [MSN07] [EWSN06]
• Privacy in data mining and LBS: sample work [IEICET10] [WISA08] [NCM08]

In Fall 2012 I will join Verisign as a research scientist. In summer 2012, I will be interning at Huawei Research in Santa Clara. In summer 2011, I interned at the Internatinal Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. Before starting my Ph.D., I was a member of engineering staff at the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute in South Korea.

Selected Recent Publications

Also see DBLP, Google scholar, talks, and all publications.

1. On the Mixing Time of Directed Social Graphs and Security Implications
   Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Huy Tran, Nicholas Hopper, and Yongdae Kim
   In The 7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2012)
2. Collaboration in Social Network-based Information Dissemination
   Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Tamer AbuHmed, Ting Zhu, Manar Mohaisen
   In The 28th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
3. DEOS: Dynamic Energy-Oriented Scheduling for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks
   Ting Zhu, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Yi Ping, Don Towsley
   The 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012)
4. Keep your friends close: Incorporating trust into social network-based Sybil defenses
   Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim
   In The 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2011) (earlier technical report)
5. Losing control of the Internet: Using the data plane to attack the control plane
   Max Schuchard, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Denis Foo Kune, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim
   In The 18th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2011)
   Media: New Scientist , Slashdot, CBS News, The Register, and others
6. Measuring the mixing time of social graphs
   Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Aaram Yun, Yongdae Kim
   In The 10th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2010) (PPT, Errata)
7. SocialCloud: Using Social Networks for Building Distributed Computing Services
   Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Huy Tran, Abhishek Chandra, and Yongdae Kim
   Technical Report, CS Department, University of Minnesota (extended version in arXiv:1112.2254)
   Updated (01/21/2012): several related works on social computing (ack. Kris Bubendorfer)
   Media: MIT Technology Review, The Verge, MSN.COM (French), Data News (Dutch)

Selected Media Coverage

• Distributed computing services from social networks, msn.com (French) December 16, 2011
• Researchers testing a social-based distributed computing network, The Verge, December 15, 2011
• Grid computing met je vrienden (Grid computing with your friends), Data News (in Dutch), December 15, 2011
• The Imminent Rise of Social Cloud Computing, MIT Technology Review, December 14, 2011
• U research exposes Web threat, Minnesota Daily, February 15, 2011
• How to crash the Internet, Slashdot, February 14, 2011
• New Cyberweapon Could Take Down the Internet, CBS News, February 12, 2011
• The cyberweapon that could take down the internet, New Scientist, February 11, 2011
• ...

Recent Professional Activities

• TPC Member, SIMPLEX 2012 (held with WWW 2012, April 17, Lyon, France)
• TPC Member, HotPOST 2012 (held with IEEE ICDCS 2012, June 21, Macau, China)
• TPC Member, CCSA 2012 (held with CCGrid 2012, May 13, Ottawa, Canada)
• Reviewer, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2012)
• Reviewer, ISOC 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012)
• Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2011)
• Reviewer, IEEE International conference on distributed computing systems (ICDCS 2011)
• ...

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