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Shahbaz Rezaei

Email: srezaei [at] ucdavis [dot] edu

Biography

I received my B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran, in 2011; and M.S. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013 and PhD in Computer Science from University of California at Davis. I am currently a post-doc researcher in Prof.Liu lab at UC Davis. My research interests include Explainable AI, machine learning security, machine learning application, mobile ad hoc networks, Mathematical Modeling and performance Evaluation as well as security and architecture of Internet.

Education

University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 2017-2023

Ph.D, Computer & Information Science

Dissertation: Membership Inference Attack on Deep Learning Models

 

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011-2013

M.S., Information Technology (IT)

Dissertation: Multipath Routing in Cognitive Radio Network

 

University of Science and Culture (USC), Tehran, Iran, 2006-2011

B.S., Software Engineering

Dissertation: Introduction and Migration to IPv6

 

Research Interest

Machine Learning Security

Machine Learning Application

Wireless Network

Performance Evaluation

Mathematical Modeling

Internet Architecture and Protocols

Awards & Honors

2023: Best Graduate Researcher Award at UC Davis

2021: Best Graduate Researcher Award (Honorable Mention) at UC Davis

2015: Ranked 2th in "National Entrance Exam for PhD Studies" in Bioinformatics major

2014: Ranked 7th in "National Entrance Exam for PhD Studies" in Information Technology(IT) major

2013: Ranked 7th in "National Entrance Exam for PhD Studies" in Information Technology(IT) major

2012: Ranked 2th in "National Entrance Exam for PhD Studies" in Information Technology(IT) major

2011: Ranked 1th in "National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies" in Information Technology(IT) major

2011: Ranked 54th in "National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies" in Software Engineering major

Publication

Google Scholar Page

Conference papers

Rezaei S, Liu X, “On the Discredibility of Membership Inference Attacks”, submitted to IEEE Security & Privacy 2023

Rezaei S, Shafiq Z, Liu X, “Accuracy-Privacy Trade-off in Deep Ensemble: A Membership Inference Perspective”, accepted at IEEE Security & Privacy 2023

Guoyao L, Rezaei S, Liu X, “User-Level Membership Inference Attack against Metric Embedding Learning”, ICLR 2022 PAIR^2Struct

Rezaei S, Liu X, “On the Difficulty of Membership Inference Attacks”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

Rezaei S, Liu X, “A Target-Agnostic Attack on Deep Models: Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities of Transfer Learning”, ”, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020

Rezaei S, Liu X, “Multitask learning for network traffic classification”, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2020

Rezaei S, Liu X, “How to achieve high classification accuracy with just a few labels: A semi-supervised approach using sampled packets”, Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2019

Rezaei S, Hemmatyar AMA, “Impact of Jitter Mechanisms on Metric-based Wireless Routing Protocols”, IEEE Wispnet 2016

Rezaei S, Hemmatyar AMA, “Study of Uniform Jitter Mechanism for Metric-based Wireless Routing”, International Conference on New Research Achievements in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016

Journal papers

Gharib M, Foroozani A, Rezaei S, Hemmatyar AMA, Movaghar A, “An area-scalable human-based mobility model”, Computer Networks, 177, 107300, 2020

Entezari-Maleki R, Gharib M, Rezaei S, Trivedi KS, Movaghar A, ““Modeling and Evaluation of Multi-hop Wireless Networks using SRNs”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020

Rezaei S, Liu X, “Deep learning for encrypted traffic classification: An overview”, IEEE communications magazine, 2019

Rezaei S, Liu X, “Large-scale mobile app identification using deep learning”, IEEE Access, 8, 348-362, 2019

Rezaei S, Gharib M, Movaghar A, “Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Routing Consideration: A General Framework”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2018

Rezaei S, “Performance Analysis of Collision of Exponential Jitter Mechanism in Wireless Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2017

Rezaei S, Hemmatyar AMA, “General Study of Jitter Mechanisms for Metric-based Wireless Routing Protocols”, International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, 2017

Rezaei S, Hemmatyar AMA, “CMORC: Class-based Multipath On-demand Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio”, Scientia Iranica, 2016

Books

Rezaei S, Asghari H, Introduction and Migration to IPv6 (In Persian)

Rezaei S, Introduction to Ns2 (In Persian) (In preparation)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, University of California at Davis (UC Davis)

Probability & Statistics, Fall 2017 (Dipak Ghosal)

Instructor, University of Science and Culture (USC)

Advanced Programming Language (C++), fall 2015

Advanced Programming Language (C++), spring 2016

Instructor, Eyvanekey University

Computer Networks, spring 2016

Network Lab, spring 2016

English for Computer Engineering, spring 2016

Teaching Assistant, Sharif University of Technology

Probability & Statistics, spring 2017 (Dr.Gharib)

Wireless Network, spring 2016 (Dr.Gharib)

Wireless Communication, fall 2015 (Dr.Hemmatyar)

Wireless Network, spring 2013 (Dr.Hemmatyar)

Wireless Communication, fall 2012 (Dr.Hemmatyar)

Network Laboratory, summer 2012 (Dr.Kharazi)

Teaching Assistant, University of Science and Culture (USC)

Advanced Programming Language (C++), spring 2008 (Dr.Esmaeili)

Advanced Programming Language (C++), fall 2007 (Mr.Mohaghegh)

Academic Activity

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2022

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 2022

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 2022

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 2021

Reviewer at IEEE Network Magazine 2021

Reviewer at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2021

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2021

Reviewer at Computer Communication 2021

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2021

Reviewer at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2020

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2020

Reviewer at Information Fusion, Elsevier 2020

Reviewer at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2020

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2020

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2019

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2019

Reviewer at ETRI Journal 2019

Reviewer at International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2017

Reviewer at ICWR 2017 (Third International Conference on Web Research)

Reviewer at Wireless Personal Communication (Springer) 2017

Reviewer at ICWR 2016 (Second International Conference on Web Research)

Researcher at performance and dependability laboratory (PDL), Sharif University of Technology, 2015-2016

Researcher at Wireless Network Lab, Sharif University of Technology, 2011-2013

Reviewer at AISP 2013 (International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing)

Author of 0 & 1 computer magazine, University of Science and Culture, 2009-2010

Participation in ACM ICPC programming contest, University of Science and Culture, 2007

Work Experience

Postdoc at UC Davis (Supervisor: Xin Liu) from 2023 - Present

ML Research Scientist Internship at Bosch from June to Sep (2023)

ML Research Scientist Internship at Bosch from June to Sep (2022)

Graduate Student Researcher at University of California from 2017

Content Manager and SEO specialist at Danapardaz 2016

Developing an Android App, La Koron Tuner, available at cafebazaar.ir (2014), Google play (October 2016) and www.lakoron.ir

Developing an Android App, Irrational Metronome, available at cafebazaar.ir (2013) and Google play (October 2016)

Network Designer at Alvars (Internship), summer 2011

Network Administrator at Farsana, fall 2011

Network Administrator at Tarh-SaazMehr, 2008-2010

Hobbies

Playing Setar & Tar-Persian traditional musical instruments. I am a member of Forouzan Band and we have performed in Milad tower, Vahdat Hall, etc (with maestros such as Bijhan Kamkar and Majid Derakhshani)

Reading books about philosophy of religion and morality, physics, and neuroscience (my favorite authors are Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris)