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Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah
Senior Scientist
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
Visiting Scientist at CSAIL
Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Divison
Cybersecurity
Biography
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before that, Dr. Al-Sabah was an Assistant Professor at the computer science and engineering department at Qatar University. Her research interests lie in the areas of network security and privacy enhancing technologies, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology. She has published papers that were featured in various magazines such as Wired and New Scientist, and was awarded the Education Excellence Day Platinum Award for PhD holders in Qatar in 2014. Dr. Al-Sabah obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2013 and later spent 16 months at MIT as a visiting scientist.
Visiting Scientist at CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
March 2014 - June 2015
Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
June 2013
M.A.Sc., Computer Networks
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
May 2007
B.S., Computer Science
American University in Cairo, Egypt
June 2004
- Network Security
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
Senior Scientist
QCRI (cyber security)
May 2019 - present
Scientist
QCRI (cyber security)
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Assistant Prof
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
Sept 2013 - Feb 2018
Lecturer
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
2007 - 2013
Teaching Assistant
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
2005 - 2007
- Accepted to appear in 34th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection,
- Elsevier Computers and Security,
- Elsevier Computers and Security,
- Impact: CSUR has a high impact factor. An earlier version of this paper has been used as assigned reading in a Computer Security course at University of California, Berkeley
- 24th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2015. [Impact: This paper received significant media attention, and was featured in more 15 news articles. This paper has also been used as an assigned reading in various computer security courses in various leading universities such as John Hopkins University, University of Waterloo, and University of California, Berkeley]
- 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
- 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013. [Impact: This paper received Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2013.]
- 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2012.
- 11th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society,
- DefenestraTor: Throwing Out Windows in Tor. 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2011.
- Conextaware RAON Middleware for Opportunistic Networks. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing,
- Third prize in the Regular Poster Presentation Category under the ICT pillar. Qatar Foundation
- Annual Research Conference Proceedings 2016 (QF ARC 2016).
- Qatar University Publication Award, 2016.
- Platinum Education Excellence Day Award for PhD holders by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 2014.
- Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award. 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013.
- Qatar University PhD Fellowship (2008-2013).
- Qatar University M.S. Fellowship (2005-2007).
- Outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science, American University in Cairo, 2003
- Outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science, American University in Cairo, 2004
- Qatar Ministry of Education B.S. Scholarship (1999-2004)
- Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser award - Second Top National High School
- Student (science division) 1999.