Don’t miss my tech talk at OC I.E.E.E to the CyberSecurity Community on March 22. For more information visit: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44411

I thank Allah that on March 9, 2017, I passed my candidacy exam and became a PhD candidate :)-

I presented DELDroid in my candidacy exam. The exam took an hour and 40 minutes followed by a private discussion by my committee members.

DELDroid is an automated system for determination and enforcement of least-privilege architecture in Android.

Thanks to my committee members:

1- Prof. Sam Malek (Advisor)

2- Prof. Cristina Lopes

3- Prof. James A. Jones

4- Prof. Alfred Kobsa

5- Prof. Ardalan Amiri Sani

Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek. DELDroid: Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android. International Conference of Software Architecture (ICSA 2017), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2017. (22% acceptance rate)

It was a great pleasure and exciting moments for me to attend the premier conference in software engineering, International Conference in Software Engineering on May of 2016. ICSE was my first software engineering conference I have attended so far. I have attended the main conference and a two days co-located event called International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems or SEAMS for short. (more…)