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Aziz Mohaisen

Aziz Mohaisen

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Research Scientist

Biography

Aziz Mohaisen is a Research Scientist on the Verisign Labs team. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2012, where he worked on several projects in the areas of systems security and data privacy. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Trustworthy computing on social networks: measurements and new applications" and won a doctoral dissertation fellowship from the graduate school of the University of Minnesota. Before pursuing graduate studies at Minnesota, Aziz was a Member of Engineering Staff at the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, a large R&D institute in South Korea. His research interests are broadly in the areas of networked systems, systems security, data privacy and measurements.

Research

Recent Publications

  1. Private Top-k Aggregation Protocols: Myungsun Kim, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Jung Hee Cheon and Yongdae Kim. In the 15th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2012).
  2. Protecting Access Privacy of Cached Contents in Information Centric Networks: Abedelaziz Mohaisen, X. Zhang, M. Schuchard, H. Xie, Y. Kim, In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2012, Abstract)
  3. Measuring Bias in the Mixing Time of Social Graphs due to Graph Sampling: Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Pengkui Luo, Yanhua Li, Yongdae Kim, Zhi-Li Zhang, In The 2012 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2012)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. Keep your friends close: Incorporating trust into social network-based Sybil defenses: Mohaisen, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim, In The 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2011)
  8. 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
  9. Measuring the mixing time of social graphs: Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Aaram Yun, Yongdae Kim, In The 10th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2010)
  10. 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 (also in arXiv:1112.2254
    Media: MIT Technology Review, The Verge, MSN.COM (French), DataNews (Dutch)

Recent services

  • TPC Member, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • TPC Member, 15th Int'l Conf on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2012), 28-30 Nov, Seoul, Korea
  • TPC Member, 7th ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC 2012), 16 Oct, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • TPC Member, The 6th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), London, UK, June 2013

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