Associate Professor
ECE
Phone: | (848) 445-8508 |
Email: | saman.zonouz@rutgers.edu |
Office: | CoRE 524 |
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
B.Sc., Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2006
Honors
- NSF CAREER Award in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
- specifically Smart Grid Infrastructures, 2015.
- Google Hall of Fame Security Award
- (a serious Android vulnerability discovery by Gabriel Salles-Loustau), 2015.
- Best Student Paper Award, IEEE SmartGridComm, 2013.
- Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2013.
- (Turned down due to other project commitments)
- Early CAREER Award, University of Miami, 2012.
- Provost Research Award, University of Miami, 2011.
- UIUC's Computing Habitat Programming Competition Award, UIUC, 2009.
- Firdawski Science Fellowship Award, 2007.
- Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Fellowship Award, UIUC, 2006.
- 7th Place at the Robotics World Cup (RoboCup), Rescue Simulation League, Germany, team “Impossibles,” 2006.
- Qualified to participate (as the first Iranians to do so) at the AIBO-Robotics World Cup, Sony AIBO 4-Legged Soccer League, Germany, team “Impossibles,” 2006.
- (World Championship) 1st Place in Robotics World Cup (RoboCup), Rescue League, Japan, team “Impossibles,” 2005.
- 5th Place at the Robotics World Cup (RoboCup), Soccer 3D League, Osaka, Japan, team “Arman,” 2005.
- Selected for Sharif Univ. of Tech. Artificial Intelligence (AI) M.Sc. program without nationwide exam, 2005.
- 2nd Place in AUT Open RoboCup, Rescue League, team “Falcon,” 2004.
- 1st in Nationwide Scientific Competitions, Iran, 2002.
- Entrance to National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), Iran, 1996.
- 1st in Provincial Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, East Azarbaijan, Iran, 1996.
- 2nd in Nationwide Scientific Competitions, Iran, 1995.
Research Interests
- Security and Privacy
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Intrusion Detection and Responce
- Embedded and Operating Systems Security
- Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
- Trustworthy Power-Grid Critical Infrastructures
Selected Publications
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Ali Mazloomzadeh, Osama Mohammed, Saman Zonouz, Empirical Development of a Trusted Sensing Base for Power System Infrastructures, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2015.
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Ceeman Vellaithurai, Anurag Srivastava, Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier, CPINDEX: Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Assessment for Power-Grid Infrastructures, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2015.
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Kate Davis, Chales Davis, Saman Zonouz, Rakesh Bobba, Robin Berthier, Luis Garcia, Peter Sauer, William Sanders, A Cyber-Physical Modeling and Assessment Framework for Power Grid Infrastructures, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2015.
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Mohammad Haghighat, Saman Zonouz, Mohammed Abdel-Mottaleb, CloudID: Trustworthy Cloud-based and Cross-Enterprise Biometric Identification, Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications, 2015.
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Saman Zonouz, Julian Rrushi, Stephen McLaughlin, Automated PLC Code Analytics for Detection of Industrial Control Malware, IEEE Security and Privacy, 2014.
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Jill Jermyn, Gabriel Salles-Lousta, Saman Zonouz, An Analysis of DoS Attack Strategies Against the LTE RAN, Journal of Cyber Security, 2014.
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Saman Zonouz, Matt Davis, Kate Rogers, Rakesh Bobba, Robin Berthier, Peter Sauer, William H. Sanders, SOCCA: A Security-Oriented Cyber-Physical Contingency Analysis in Power Infrastructures, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2014.
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Saman Zonouz, Himanshu Khurana, William Sanders, Timothy Yardley, RRE: A Game-Theoretic Intrusion Response and Recovery Engine, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013.
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Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier, Himanshu Khurana, William H. Sanders, Tim Yardley, Seclius: An Information Flow-based Consequence-Centric Security Metric, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013.
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Saman Zonouz, Parisa Haghani, Cyber-Physical Security Metric Elicitation in Smart Grid Critical Infrastructures Based on System Administrators' Responsive Behavior, Elsevier Computers and Security, 2013.
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Saman Zonouz, Katherine M. Rogers, Robin Berthier, Rakesh Bobba, William H. Sanders, and Thomas J. Overbye, SCPSE: Security-Oriented Cyber-Physical State Estimation for Power Grid Critical Infrastructures, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2012.
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Stephen McLaughlin, Brett Holbert, Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier, A Multi-Sensor Energy Theft Detection Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructures, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, 2012.
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Saman Zonouz, Amir Houmansadr, Robin Berthier, Secloud: A Cloud-based On-Demand Security Solution for Resource-limited Mobile Phone Devices, Elsevier Computers and Security, 2012.
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Saman Zonouz and Parisa Haghani, Approximate Core Allocation for Large Cooperative Security Games, ISRN Communication and Networking, 2012.
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Saman Zonouz, Sajed Miremadi, Seyyed Ghasem Miremadi, Parisa Haghani, A Fuzzy Markov Model for Scalable Reliability Analysis of Advanced Metering Infrastructure, submitted to International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2012.