I am a software researcher and developer at Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine (SCGPM), Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in September 2019. My advisor was Prof. Rajiv Gupta. My research interests span the areas of software engineering, computer security, program analysis, software testing, and smart-phone side of systems/security; In particular, I'm interested in application of software analysis tools in detecting vulnerabilities for both general testing purposes and security assessment, specially in smart-phone applications.

EDUCATION

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Ph.D. in Computer ScienceSeptember 2014 - September 2019

University of California, Riverside

Thesis: Application of Software Analysis in Detecting Vulnerabilities:Testing and Security Assessment

Supervisors: Prof. Rajiv Gupta and Prof. Zhiyun Qian

B.Sc. in Computer EngineeringSeptember 2010 - August 2014

Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran

Supervisor: Prof. Mehran S. Fallah

EXPERIENCES

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• Graduate Research Assistant


University of California, Riverside (September 2014 - September 2019)



• Teaching Assistant


• University of California, Riverside, USA (Fall 2018)
  Compiler Construction (CS201), Graduate Course
  Instructor: Prof. Rajiv Gupta
• University of California, Riverside, USA (Spring 2018)
  Compiler Construction (CS201), Graduate Course
  Instructor: Prof. Rajiv Gupta
• University of California, Riverside, USA (Fall 2016)
  Compiler Construction (CS201), Graduate Course
  Instructor: Prof. Rajiv Gupta
• University of California, Riverside, USA (Spring 2016)
  Compiler Construction (CS201), Graduate Course
  Instructor: Prof. Rajiv Gupta
• Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (Spring 2016)
  Software Engineering I, Undergraduate Course
  Instructor: Bahman Pourvatan



• Software Engineer Intern


• Stanford University, USA (June 2018 - September 2018)
• ShadeCraft Robotics, Pasadena, USA (October 2017 - January 2018)
• Danesh Bonyan Amirkabir, Tehran, Iran (July 2013 – September 2013)

PUBLICATIONS AND POSTERS

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• When The Attacker Knows A Lot: The GAGA Graph Anonymizer
  Arash Alavi, Rajiv Gupta, Zhiyun Qian.
  Information Security Conference, (ISC'19), September 2019. To appear.
  Acceptance rate: 27%



• Dynamic Slicing for Android and Detecting Stuck App States
  Poster: Southern California Software Engineering Symposium at UC Irvine, June 2019.
  



• Dynamic Slicing for Android
  Tanzirul Azim, Arash Alavi, Iulian Neamtiu, Rajiv Gupta.
  The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'19), May 2019.
  Acceptance rate: 21%.
  Download tool: [AndroidSlicer]



• Where is the Weakest Link? A Study on Security Discrepancies between Android Apps and Their Website Counterparts
  Arash Alavi, Alan Quach, Hang Zhang, Bryan Marsh, Farhan Ul Haq, Zhiyun Qian, Long Lu, Rajiv Gupta.
  The Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'17), March 2017.
  [Extra results].
  Acceptance rate: 23%



• Automatically Verifying and Reproducing Event-based Races in Android Apps
  Yongjian Hu, Iulian Neamtiu, Arash Alavi.
  The International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'16), July 2016.
  Acceptance rate: 26%

SERVICES

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• Artifact Evaluation Committee:
  • OOPSLA (2019)
• Additional Reviewer:
  • JVLC (2019), COMLAN (2018), MICRO (2018), CC (2017), IEEE QRS (2016, 2017, 2018), CASES (2016), IEEE LANMAN (2016), ACM ASIACCS (2016)
• Mentor:
  • UCR BioHack (2018)

ACADEMIC COURSES

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• Graduate Courses and Grades:
• Data Mining Techniques - Prof. Eamonn Keogh: A
  Winter, 2016
• Wireless Networks & Mobile Computing - Prof. Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy: A+
  Winter, 2016
• Data Base Management Systems - Prof. Chinya V. Ravishankar: A
  Fall, 2015
• Testing and Verification Techniques - Prof. Rajiv Gupta: A-
  Fall, 2015
• Compiler Construction - Prof. Rajiv Gupta: A-
  Spring, 2015
• Computer Security - Prof. Zhiyun Qian: A+
  Winter, 2015
• Scientific Computing - Prof. Tamar Shinar: A
  Winter, 2015
• Theory of Computation - Prof.Neal Young: A-
  Winter, 2015


• Undergraduate Courses and Grades:
• Artificial Intelligence - Dr. Ebadzadeh: 20.00/20.00 (A+)
  Fall, 2013
• Industrial Training Software - Dr. Ahmad Nickabadi: 20.00/20.00 (A+)
  Summer, 2013
• Data Storage and Retrieval - Dr. Ahmad Nickabadi: 18.25/20.00 (A)
  Spring, 2013
• Research Method and Report Writings - Dr. Akbari: 20.00/20.00 (A+)
  Spring, 2013
• Electric Cercuit 1 - Dr. Kardan: 18.74/20.00 (A)
  Fall, 2011
• Data Structures & Algorithms - Dr. Ghasemi: 18.92/20.00 (A)
  Fall, 2011
• Differential Equations - Dr. Ramezani: 18.25/20.00 (A)
  Fall, 2011
• Advanced Computer Programming - Dr. Nourhosseini: 19.00/20.00 (A)
  Spring, 2011
• Principles of Computer and Programming - Dr. Pourvatan: 18.50/20.00 (A)
  Fall, 2010

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

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• Building a search engine

  Information Retrieval & Web search
  Spring, 2015

• Implementation of a subset of Ball-Larus’s efficient path profiling algorithm

  Compiler Construction
  Spring, 2015

• Design and solving Sudoku using evolutionary algorithm

  Artificial Intelligence
  Fall, 2013

• Design and implementation of a Learning Management System (LMS)

  Industrial Training Software
  Summer, 2013

• Reading and processing of a massive text data, developing a code in Java

  Data Storage And Retrieval
  Spring, 2013

• Design and implementation of a simple programming language by OCaml

  Design of Programming Language
  Fall, 2012

• Text coding using Huffman coding, developing a code in Java

  Data Structure & Algorithms
  Fall, 2011