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Dr. Yazan Boshmaf
Scientist
Dr. Yazan Boshmaf
Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
MSc Information Technology
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Divison
Cybersecurity
Biography
Dr. Boshmaf received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia under the mentorship of Prof. Konstantin Beznosov and Prof. Matei Ripeanu. His PhD thesis presented one of the first security analyses of malicious social bots on the web.
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada
2015
MSc Information Technology
University of Stuttgart, Germany
2008
BSc Computer Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
2005
Full Stack Software Engineer
Hootsuite; Vancouver, BC Canada
2015
Research Intern
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Mountain View, CA USA
2014
Research Intern
Telefonica Research; Barcelona, Spain
2013
Research Intern
Facebook Menlo Park, CA USA
2012
Research Intern
Sophos Vancouver, BC Canada
2012
Research Intern
High Performance Computing Center (HLRS); Stuttgart, Germany
2008
Software Engineer
Intel Walldorf, Germany
2007
Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft Consulting Services; Muscat, Oman
2005
- Source Attribution of Cryptographic API Misuse in Android Applications; Proc. of 11th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS '18); Songdo, Incheon Korea; Jun 2018
- Interacting with Large Distributed Datasets using Sketch; Proc. of 2016 Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV '16); Groningen, The Netherlands; Jun 2016
- Leveraging Victim Prediction for Robust Fake Account Detection in OSNs; Proc. of 2015 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15); San Diego, CA USA; Feb 2015
- The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money; Proc. of 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '11), Orlando, FL USA; Dec 2011
- SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan Using on-Chip Vector Processing Units; Proc. of the VLDB Endowment; Volume 2, Issue 1; Pages 385-394; Aug 2009
- 2013; Best Paper Award; Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Conference; Niagara Falls, ON Canada
- 2012; Research Internship Award; MITACS Accelerate; Vancouver, BC Canada
- 2011; Outstanding Paper Award; Annual Computer Security Applications Conference; Orlando, FL USA
- 2009; Four Year Doctoral Fellowship; University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC Canada
- 2009; Faculty of Applied Science Award; University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC Canada
- 2006; Full Tuition Scholarship for Outstanding Students; University of Stuttgart; Stuttgart, Germany
- 2001; Royal Academic Sponsorship; Jordan University of Science and Technology; Irbid, Jordan