Dr Zahra Pooranian is a ERCIM Research Fellow at CNR, Pisa, Italy. Before joining CNR, she was a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Rahim Tafazolli and Dr. Mohammad Shojafar in network Security And pRIvacy LAB (SARI LAB) at the 5GIC & 6GIC, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. She was working on AUTOTRUST: A Secure 5G Transport and Logistics Demonstration project. She was a postdoctoral at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. She was working on Enhancing Security and Privacy of National Identity Systems project. From 2017 to 2019, she was postdoctoral in Network Security under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Conti at the University of Padua, Padua, Italy. She was part of the Security and PRIvacy Through Zeal (SPRITZ) research group and working on a European H2020 project, TagItSmart! - Smart Tags driven service platform for enabling ecosystems of connected objects. Her main activities include but are not limited to cloud/fog storage security and privacy and applying AI/ML techniques for malware detection. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in February 2017. She was honored to be supervised by Prof. Enrico Tronci on Automating Design of Smart Grid Systems. Besides, she was involved in the FP7 project SmartHG (Energy Demand Aware Open Services for Smart Grid Intelligent Automation).

AWARDS

• ERCIM Research Fellow at, CNR, Pisa, Italy, (September 2023-August 2024)


• Visiting Research Associate Fellowship, University of Ryerson, Toronto, ON, Canada, (May 2019-October 2019)


• Research Associate Fellowship, European H2020 Support, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (May 2017-May 2019)


• PhD Scholarship, European FP7 Support - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, (February 2014-February 2017)


• Review Certificate Award in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), (27 October 2016)

INVITED TALKS

• [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!

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

• IEEE INFOCOM workshop- Honolulu, USA, April 2018


• IEEE SOFTCOM conference- Split, September 2016


• IEEE ICFIT conference- Singapore, September 2011

HONORS AND CERTIFICATES

• Certificate LITEC-IRAN L.P.I, Sharif University, CCNA, March 2013


• Certificate LITEC-IRAN L.P.I, Sharif University, CCNP, May 2013


• Certificate LITEC-IRAN L.P.I, Sharif University, Web Design, June 2013

VISITING PERIODS

• University of Ryerson, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2019-October 2019

MEMBERSHIP

• IEEE, Senior Member