Hammas Bin Tanveer
Email: firstname-lastname@uiowa.edu
I am a second year PhD student at the University of Iowa advised by Dr. Rishab Nithayanand. I am a firm believer in online anonymity, privacy and accessibility and am always interested in working on projects that further one of these causes. I previously worked in the Technology for People Initiative and was advised by Dr. Fareed Zaffar
- Updates
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I recently passed my Qualifying Exam! September 2020
Qualifying Exam report
Qualifying Exam presentation slides
- Projects
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The Utility of Cyber Threat Intelligence for IPv6
A project aimed at analyzing how useful Cyber Threat Intelligence would be in thewake of IPv6. We analyze certain trade offs between home-grown, commercial andpublic blacklists. We also test the efficacy of IP blocklists in the advent of IPv6.
Supervisors
Dr. Rishab Nithayanand
Rachee Singh
Dr. Paul PearceCyclone
A project aimed at building resilient clouds with applications ranging from moving-target defense against denial-of-service and side-channel attacks to mitigating informa-tion leakage by cloning of entire virtual networks.
Supervisors
Dr. Fareed ZaffarYoutube video description generation
A project aimed at providing succinct and authentic description about a Youtube videousing machine learning techniques.
Supervisors
Dr. Fareed ZaffarMalware detection using Provenance graphs
A project aimed to detecting malwares of varying kinds from selected provenance,collected by SPADE, by using machine learning techniques.
Supervisors
Dr. Fareed Zaffar - Work Experience
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Research Assistant: The University of Iowa August 2019 - Present
The Security, Privacy, and Anonymity Research Team
Research Assistant: Lahore University of Management Sciences August 2018 - May 2019
Technology for People Initiative
Educative, Inc
Developer Advocate and Course Designer
- Teaching
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Teaching Assistant - University of Iowa August 2019 - Present
CS:3820 Programming Language Concepts (JavaScript and Haskell)
Teaching Assistant - LUMS August 2018 - December 2018
Teaching Assistant - LUMS January 2019 - May 2019
- Important Courses
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Web Mining January 2020 - May 2020
Measuring changes in Reddit users’ interests inresponse to coronavirus
Topics in Computer Science August 2019 - December 2019
Security and Privacy
DetecTOR: Detecting Tor Abuse Traffic in real timeOnline Advertising and Tracking
Should Users Accept Acceptable Ads? - References
- Dr. Rishab Nithayanand
- Dr. Fareed Zaffar