I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California Riverside. My supervisor is Prof. Harsha V. Madhyastha. I am a member of Distributed Systems Lab.

Ongoing Research Projects:

1. ★Data deduplication in the cloud storage services. Please click here for more information
   

2. ★Private content sharing in social networks
   

3. ★Dependency tracking for attack forensics
   

Research Interests:

1. ★Privacy and Security
   

2. ★Distributed Systems
   

3. ★Social Networks
   

4. ★Networking
   

Eductions:

1. ★2010-Now, PhD in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside
   

2. ★2006-2008, M.S. in Information Technology, Sharif University of Technology
   

3. ★2002-2006, B.S. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
   

Publications:

1. ★LASTor: A Low-Latency AS-Aware Tor Client (Journal)
   M. Akhoondi, C. Yu, H. Madhyastha, Journal of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Issue 99, ISSN 1063-6692, December 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2291242
   

2. ★LASTor: A Low-Latency AS-Aware Tor Client [Webpage] [Paper] [Presentation]
   M. Akhoondi, C. Yu, H. Madhyastha, Proceedings of IEEE Oakland '12, San Francisco, CA, May 2012, (Acceptance rate: 13%).
   

3. ★Towards a Model for Inferring Trust in Heterogeneous Social Networks
   M. Akhoondi, J. Habibi, M. Sayyadi, second Asia International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (IEEE-AMS2008), May 13-15, 2008.
   

4. ★Approximating Relation Extraction for Community Mining in Heterogeneous Social Networks
   N. Haghpanah, M. Akhoondi, H. Abolhassani, IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, ICWI'07.
   

5. ★Trusted Secure Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
   N. Haghpanah, M. Akhoondi, M. Kargar, A. Movaghar, 5th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and Wireless Access, MOBIWAC'07.
   

Honors:

1. ★Travel Award to attend ACM Turing Centenary Celebration, 2012.
   

2. ★Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2010.
   

3. ★Ranked 1st among MS graduated students of my department (Computer Engineering at Sharif University).
   

4. ★Ranked 7th among more than 10000 participants in the M.Sc. entrance exam, March 2006.
   

5. ★Ranked 172nd among more than 500000 participants in the university entrance exam, July 2002.
   

Teachings:

1. ★Software Engineering, PIAU University, Spring 2009.
   

2. ★Data base Lab, PIAU University, Spring 2009.
   

3. ★Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Iran institute of industrial engineering, Fall 2009.
   

Teaching Assistantships:

1. ★CS 164 Computer Networks, University of California, Riverside, Winter 2013.
   

2. ★Software Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Winter 2012.
   

3. ★Computer Security, University of California, Riverside, Fall 2012.
   

4. ★Decision Support System (DSS), Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2009.
   

5. ★Principles of Computer Networks, Tehran University, Fall 2007.
   

6. ★Data Mining, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2007.
   

7. ★Electronic Commerce, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2007.
   

8. ★Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006.