Education

PhD.
Since Fall 2007 		University of California, Irvine
Bren School of Informatics & Computer Sciences
Current GPA: 4.0/4
M.Sc.
Fall 2004 - Fall 2006 		Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Computer Engineering Department, Major: Software Engineering
GPA: 19.26/20

B.Sc.
Fall 2000 - Summer 2004 		Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Computer Engineering Department, Major: Software Engineering

Publications

  • Journal Articles:

    • H. R. Shahriari, Y. Ganjisaffar, R. Jalili, and J. Habibi, Topological Analysis of Multi-Phase Attacks using Expert Systems, International Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE), Vol. 24, No. 3, 2008

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, H. Abolhassani, Towards a Framework for Brokering Semantic Web Services, International Journal of Computers and their applications (IJCtA), submitted 03/13/2006, accepted 02/21/2007.

  • Conference Papers:

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, Sara Javanmardi, Stanley Grant, Cristina Lopes, CalSWIM: A Wiki-based Data Sharing Platform, to appear in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Florida, USA, 2008.

    • M. Neshati, Y. Ganjisaffar and H. Abolhassani, Clustering-based Taxonomy Construction for Semantic Web Services, Proceedings of the 12th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2007), Tehran, Iran.

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, H. Abolhassani and M. Neshati, A Similarity Measure for OWL-S annotated Web Services, Proceedings of The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 621-624.

    • S. Javanmardi, M. Amini, R. Jalili, and Y. Ganjisaffar, SBAC: Semantic Based Access Control, The 11th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT-systems, Linkping, Sweden, October 2006, pp. 157-168.

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, H. Abolhassani and R. Jalili, An Architecture for a context-aware Service Broker in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, International Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems & Application (PerCSA 2006), UAE, March 2006, pp. 1097-1100.

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Ghodsi and H. Abolhassani, Parallel Online Ranking of Web Pages, The 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), UAE, March 2006, pp. 104-109.

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, H. Abolhassani, Context-aware Semantic Web Service Brokering, 11th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2006), Jan. 2006, Tehran, Iran.

    • H. Shahriari, Y. Ganjisaffar and R. Jalili, A Connectivity Based Method for Analyzing Network Vulnerabilities, Proceedings of the 3rd Iranian Society of Cryptography Conference (ISCC'05), Isfahan, Iran, Sep. 2005, pp 273-284 (Received best paper award).

  • Thesis:

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, A Framework for Brokering Semantic Web Services, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, M.Sc. thesis, January 2007.

    • Y. Ganjisaffar, Design and Impelementation of an Automatic Course web site Generator, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc. thesis, October 2004.

Talks

  • Semantic Based Access Control, NordSec'06, Linkoing, Sweden

  • Service Brokering in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, PerCSA'06, Sharjah, UAE

  • Parallel Online Ranking of Web Pages, AICCSA'06, Sharjah, UAE

  • Context-aware Semantic Web Service Brokering, CSICC'06, Tehran, Iran

Honors & Awards

  • Phd Admission and Fellowship offer from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2007

  • Phd Admission and Fellowship offer for three years from University of California, Irvine, 2007

  • PhD Admission with a Fellowship offer for two years of support from University of California, Riverside, 2007.

  • Phd Admission and Fellowship offer for two years from University of Alberta, 2007

  • 1st Rank in cumulative GPA among M.Sc. students of the department, Fall 2004 beginners, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2006.

  • Best Paper Award, 3rd Iranian Society of Cryptography Conference, ISCC'05, 2005.

  • 5th Rank in National Scientific Olympiad in Computer Engineering, Stage II, Tehran, Iran, Summer 2004.

  • 2nd Rank in National Scientific Olympiad in Computer Engineering, Stage I, Tehran, Iran, Spring 2004.

  • 2nd Rank among over 8,000 students in the National Graduate Entrance Examination in Computer Engineering,

  • Accepted in Sharif University of Technology, the best university of Iran.

  • Ranked top 0.04% among over 350,000 applicants in Iran's Nationwide University Entrance Examination, Summer 2000.

  • 1st Rank in Computer Programming Contest in Kerman Province, 1998.

TA Courses

Professional Experiences

  • Microsoft Live Search, Software Developer Intern
    Summer 2008
    Involved in developing an online clustering engine for Microsoft Live Search Engine.

  • Toorintan Software Company, Software Developer
    January 2007 - September 2007
    Involved in developing a search engine for Persian documents on the Web (involved in the design and development of the crawler, indexer, clustering engine and ranker components).

  • Zaravand Software Company, Software Developer
    February 2005 - December 2006
    Involved in developing a nationwide MIS for managing the quality of buildings that are built by governmental organizations. This information system was developed using Microsoft .NET framework and Microsoft SQL Server database management system. I designed a hierarchical architecture for this system for gathering data of hundreds of clients which were spread all around the nation.

  • AICTC, Software Developer
    Summer 2004
    Developed a Multi-language e-Learning Portal using PHP and MySQL.

  • Nokhbegan-e-Sharif Institute, Software Developer
    October 2003 - August 2004
    Designed and implemented an image storage and retrieval system for news agencies using Visual C++
    Developing an e-Voting web site using PHP.