CV
An excerpt from my CV.
Education
| Ph.D. Computer Science | Delft University of Technology, Netherlands | 2018 - 2024 | |
| MSc. Computer Science | Delft University of Technology, Netherlands | 2016 - 2018 | |
| BSc. Computer Science | National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan | 2011 - 2015 |
Research/Industry Experience
| Scientific Visitor | Eurecom, France (with Prof. Balzarotti) | Sept 2023 - Nov 2023 | |
| Cybersecurity Visiting Student Researcher | RIT, USA (with Prof. Yang) | Jun 2020 - Dec 2020 | |
| Research Intern | Fox-IT, Netherlands | Nov 2017 - Sept 2018 | |
| Research Intern | EPFL, Switzerland (with Prof. Ailamaki) | Jul 2017 - Sept 2017 | |
| Application Engineer | LMKR, Pakistan | Sept 2015 - Jul 2016 | |
| Openlab Summer Student | CERN, Switzerland (with Dr. Lueders) | Jul 2015 - Sept 2015 |
Honors/Awards
Received the Henry Walker Travel Grant to attend SIGCSE’24 in Portland!  
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12-2023 | |
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Won the “Best Demo Award” for our alert-driven attack graph generator at ICT.Open 2023!
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04-2023 | |
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Won the “People’s Choice Award” for our XAI-for-security SoK poster at Alice&Eve 2022!
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11-2022 | |
Our CSE teaching team is nominated (top-3) for the TU Delft Education Team Award, 2022! 
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11-2022 | |
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Won the “Best Poster Award” for our alert-driven attack graph dashboard at VizSec 2022!
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10-2022 | |
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Received the iMentor student grant to attend ACM-CCS.
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11-2020 | |
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Received a Community Engagement Award at ECML/PKDD.
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09-2020 | |
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Got a student grant at the Intl. Summer School of ML & Security @ Padua, Italy.
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09-2019 | |
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Our team won the Robust Malware Detection Challenge @ the KDD AdvML workshop, 2019.
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08-2019 | |
Selected as the Best Graduate of the Faculty of EEMCS, 2019! 
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06-2019 | |
Won the Best Poster award for my MSc. thesis at the Annual PhD Event at EEMCS, TU Delft. 
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11-2018 | |
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Completed MSc. with Cum Laude (top 3% of my class).
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10-2018 | |
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Recipient of the JvEffen Excellence Scholarship worth €55,000.
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09-2016 | |
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Won the Best Lightning Talk award among 40 CERN Openlab interns.
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09-2015 |