My name is Fatemah Alharbi. I was born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of California, Riverside. I work as a research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. In addition, I am a lecturer in the College of Computer Science and Engineering at Taibah University, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

My interaction with computer science started when I first learned to program. In my undergraduate studies, my interest in information security started to take shape. My reason for applying to the Ph.D. program is two-fold. First, I am very passionate about the field of computer science with special research interest in security. Second, I believe by teaching the subject I can make a difference in the delicate field of security. I believe teaching is an integral part of doing research. A discovery is far from complete if one does not also find a way to present it to others.

• Lecturer

May 2015 - Present
Taibah University, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

• Instructor

March - June 2014
ITT Technical Institute, San Dimas Campus, CA, USA
Lectured a course titled ET2560 Introduction to C Programming

• Teaching/Student Assistant

March 2013 - May 2013
California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Worked as a Teaching Assistant in CS470, Computer Network Protocol
Assisted students with OPNET, a network monitoring software in the Computer Science Department

Fatemah Alharbi and Huiping Guo, "RSA-Based Key Compromised Resistant Protocol (KCR) For Large Databases," In the Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS) 2015, San Fransisco, CA, USA - PDF

Fatemah Alharbi, Jie Chang, Yuchen Zhou, Feng Qian, Zhiyun Qian, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, "Collaborative Client-Side DNS Cache Poisoning Attack," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2019, Paris, France, Honored to be acknowledged by Apple in macOS security update (Published Date: January 22, 2019) - News Coverage - PDF