About me

I obtained my PHD from University of California, Riverside in computer science under the supervision of Michalis Faloutsos in Summer 2022. I will not maintain this page anymore, so please either visit my Linkedin Profile or my google scholar page.

Personally, I very much enjoy playing pokers, and reading poems in my spare time. Good friends are a bless in life so I wouldn't miss a chance to hang out with them.

Education

University of California, Riverside

2022, Computer Science

During my PHD, I worked on system and network security problems.

University of Trento (Italy)

2016, Double degree MS in Computer Science & Entrepreneurship

I am privileged to be an EIT alumnus. EIT offers double degree master programs in Europe. Studnets spend the first year in one university, and the second year in another university in a differrent country.

University of Twente (The Netherlands)

2017

Description as above.

Shiraz University

2009 - 2013, BS in Software Engineering

I did a 4 years BS program in my hometown, Shiraz.

Publications

Academic Papers

Ali Davanian, Michalis Faloutsos (2022), MalNet: A binary-centric network-level profiling of IoT Malware In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2022

Amogh Pradeep, Muhammad Talha Paracha, Protick Bhowmick, Ali Davanian, Abbas Razaghpanah, Martina Lindorfer, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Dave Levin, David Choffnes (2022), A Comparative Analysis of Certificate Pinning in Android and iOS, In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2022.

Ali Davanian, Ahmad Darki, Michalis Faloutsos (2021), CnCHunter: An MITM-Approach to Identify Live CnC Servers, in BlackHat USA 2021

Yu Jiang, Ruixuan Li, Heng Yin, Junwei Tang, Ali Davanian (2020), Parallel Space Traveling: OMDroid: Detecting Obfuscation Variants of Android Malware Using Transfer Learning, in the Proceedings 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020).

D Dai, R Li, J Tang, A Davanian, H Yin (2020), Parallel Space Traveling: A Security Analysis of App-Level Virtualization in Android, in the Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Access (SACMAT 2020).

Ali Davanian, Zhenxiao Qi, Yu Qu, and Heng Yin (2019), DECAF++: Elastic Whole-System Dynamic Taint Analysis, in the Proceedings of 22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), September 2019, USENIX Association.

Yaowen Zheng, Ali Davanian, Heng Yin, Chengyu Song, Hongsong Zhu, and Limin Sun (2019), Firm-AFL: High-Throughput Greybox Fuzzing of IoT Firmware via Augmented Process Emulation, in the Proceedings of 28th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2019, USENIX Association.

Ali Davanian (2017), Effective granularity in Internet badhood detection: Detection rate, Precision and Implementation performance, Master Thesis, University of Twente

Ali Davanian, Fabio Massacci, and Luca Allodi (2017), Diversity: a poor man's solution to drone takeover, in the 7th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS 2017), DOI

Professional Articles

How to crack APT28 traffic in a few seconds(April 2017), Securityaffairs

Puny: Funny or Just Plain Dangerous? (April 2017), RedSocks

Hacking Team MS Word 2013 exploit Analysis (February 2016), University of Trento Security Research Lab

Teaching

CS183 - Linux System Administration, University of California, Riverside, Fall 2021. I taught undergraduate students Linux System Administration.
CS100 - Software Construction, University of California, Riverside, Spring 2021. I TAed undergraduate students design patterns, source code management using github and CI/CD.
CS005 - Introduction into the computer programming, University of California, Riverside, Fall 2019. I taught undergraduate students Android mobile programming.
CS166 - Database Managment System Lab, University of California, Riverside, Spring 2019. I TAed undergraduate students how to program with PostgreSQL.
CS202 - Advanced Operating Systems, University of California, Riverside, Spring 2018. I assisted the course teacher in the graduate students assginments.

Achievements

International Student Recognition award from University of California, Riverside
Dean Distinguished award from University of California, Riverside
Honors graduation from University of Twente
Honors graduation from University of Trento
Excellent scholarship from European Institute of Technology