Amir Houmansadr
BSc. & MSc. from Sharif University of Technology, pursuing Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Researcher at Advanced Communications Research Institute for 2 years.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Website: | https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ahouman2/www/ |
| Skills: | C/C++, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Python, Software Engineering, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows |
| Location: | UIUC |
| Groups: | Idea to Product UIllinois 2009 |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Tags: | network, security, watermarking |
| Schools: | Sharif University of Technology, University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Network Geographics Inc |
| Position: | Intern |
| Time period: | January 2008 - Present |
| Employer: | Iran Telecommunication Research Center |
| Position: | Summer Internship |
| Time period: | January 2001 - Present |
| Employer: | Advanced Communications Research Institute (ACRI) |
| Position: | Researcher |
| Time period: | September 2004 - June 2006 |
| Description: | Executive Manager of a fundamental research project on multimedia watermarking. |
| Employer: | Electronics Research Center(ERC) |
| Position: | Researcher |
| Time period: | July 2003 - September 2004 |
EDUCATION
| University: | Sharif University of Technology |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Sharif University of Technology |
| Time period: | 2003 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, BSc |
| University: | University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
| Time period: | 2006 - Present |
| Degree: | Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Amir Houmansadr, and Nikita Borisov. Breaking Through Anonymous Networks:
An Invisible and Blind Network Watermark, 2nd Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs’09). Seattle, USA, August 2009. Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, and Nikita Borisov. Multi-Flow Attack Resistant Watermarks for Network Flows, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’09). Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009. Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, and Nikita Borisov. RAINBOW: A Robust And Invisible Non-Blind Watermark for Network Flows, 16th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’09), San Diego, USA, Feb 2009. Negar Kiyavash, Amir Houmansadr, and Nikita Borisov. Multi-Flow Attacks Against Network Flow Watermarking Schemes, 17th USENIX Security Symposium (SEC’08), San Jose, USA, Aug 2008. Amir Houmansadr, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami. A Collusion-Resistant Video Watermarking Scheme,LNCS book, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, vol. 4437. , 2007 (Proceedings of Information Hiding (IH’06), Alexandria, USA). Amir Houmansadr, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami. Robust Content-Based Video Watermarking Exploiting Motion Entropy Masking Effect, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP’06), Portugal, 2006. Amir Houmansadr, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami. A Novel Video Watermarking Method Using Visual Cryptography, IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, 2006. Amir Houmansadr, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami. Robustness Enhancement of Content-Based Watermarks using Entropy Masking Effect, LNCS book, Springer-Verlag, vol. 3710, 2005 (Proceedings of InternationalWorkshop on DigitalWatermarking (IWDW’05), Siena, Italy). Amir Houmansadr, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami. A Digital Image Watermarking Scheme Based on Visual Secret Sharing, 3rd Int’l Symposium on Telecommunication (IST’03), Shiraz, Iran, 2005. Amir Houmansadr. Entropy Video Watermarking Using Human Visual System Models, M.Sc. Thesis,Sharif University of Tech., 2005. Amir Houmansadr. Synchronization Methods in PSK Modulation, B.Sc. Thesis, Sharif University of Tech., 2001. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | The Excellent Young Student Researcher award by Iran Telecom Research Center, 2006.
Ranked 63rd out of 11; 000 in the M.Sc. Nation-Wide University Entrance Exam, 2003. Ranked 70th out of 350; 000 in the B.Sc. Nation-Wide University Entrance Exam, 1998. Qualified to the semi-final stage of the National Computer Olympiad, 1997. Qualified to the semi-final stage of the National Physics Olympiad, 1997. |
