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		 Dr ZAHRA POORANIAN 
	 
	
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		z.pooranian@surrey.ac.uk | 
	 
	
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		Guildford, UK | 
	 
 
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Dr Zahra Pooranian is a ERCIM Research Fellow at  CNR, Pisa, Italy.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
- Adversarial Machine Learning
 
- Cloud Storage Security
 
- Cloud/Fog Computing
 
- Smart Grid Systems
 
- Data Privacy
 
- Optimization
 
NEWS
 
- [22 June 2023] Evaluated to ERCIM  Research Fellow at  CNR, Pisa, Italy.
 
- [28 May - 01 June 2023] Paper accepted at the 58th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE ICC'23), Rome, Italy, called A Heterogenous IoT Attack Detection through Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Dynamic ML Approach, Code! 
 
	- [May 2022] Paper accepted at ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), called SETTI: A Self-Supervised AdvErsarial Malware DeTection ArchiTecture in an IoT Environment.  (IF = 3.989) 
 
	- [October 2021] Paper accepted at IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS & TUTORIALS (COMST), called Online Advertising Security:
Issues, Taxonomy, and Future Directions.  (IF = 25.249) 
 
	- [September 2021] Technical Program Co-chairs of the 5th International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDS-2021).
 
	- [September 2021] Paper accepted at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (IEEE MSN 2021), Exeter, UK, called FIDS: A Federated Intrusion Detection System for 5G Smart Metering Network, Code! 
 
	- [1 September 2021] Evaluated to the grade of #IEEE Senior Member.
 
	- [July 2021] Paper accepted at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (IEEE CNSM 2021), Izmir, Turkey, called Link Latency Attack in Software-Defined Networks.
 
	
	- [July 2021] Paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, (TII), called iFaaSBus: A Security and Privacy based Lightweight Framework for Serverless Computing using IoT and Machine Learning, Code! (IF = 10.215) 
 
	- [18-20 August 2021] Program committee member of 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2021).
 
	- [November 2021] Techincal program committee member of 6th IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security Protocols (CPS-Sec 2021).
 
	- [December 2020] Invited speaker, ICTALK-2020 virtual event organized by the National University of Chimborazo (Ecuador), speaking about “Side-Channel Attack in Cloud Storage.” Video! 
	
 
	- [September 2020] Program committee member of 10th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
 
	- [September 2020] Paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, (TII), called LEVER: Secure Deduplicated Cloud Storage with Encrypted Two-Party Interactions in Cyber-Physical Systems, Code!  (IF = 10.215) 
 
	- [June 2020] Program committee member of IEEE TrustCom 2020 in Trust Track.
 
	- [April 2020] Paper accepted at Future Generation Computer Systems, called Similarity-based Android malware detection using Hamming distance of static binary features, Code!  (IF = 7.010)