Hi! This is Mohammad^#, a PhD student in Information Security under the supervision of Andrei Sabelfeld and Daniel Hedin at Chalmers in Sweden, started in September 2019. Prior to that, I lived at Tehran Polytechnic (AUT) for 8 years (BSc in Software Engineering, MSc in Information Security, and PhD candidate in Software Engineering), supervised by Mehran S. Fallah. Since then, I have been pursuing my passion for:

• Language-Based Security
• Formal Methods for Information Security
• Information-Flow Security
• Programming Languages

^{# my full name is Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Ahmadpanah (in Persian: سید محمدمهدی احمدپناه), and here is my voice pronouncing my name:}

Publications

1. Securing Software in the Presence of Third-Party Modules, Licentiate thesis, 2021 [pdf] [video]
   Supervisor: Andrei Sabelfeld
2. Securing Node-RED Applications, Protocols, Strands, and Logic: Festschrift in honor of Joshua Guttman’21 [pdf]
   Mohammad M. Ahmadpanah, Musard Balliu, Daniel Hedin, Lars Eric Olsson, and Andrei Sabelfeld
3. Nontransitive Policies Transpiled, EuroS&P’21 [pdf]
   Mohammad M. Ahmadpanah, Aslan Askarov, and Andrei Sabelfeld
4. SandTrap: Securing JavaScript-driven Trigger-Action Platforms, USENIX Security’21 [pdf]
   Mohammad M. Ahmadpanah, Daniel Hedin, Musard Balliu, Lars Eric Olsson, and Andrei Sabelfeld
5. Improving Multi-Execution-based Mechanisms for Enforcing Information Flow Policies, Master’s thesis, 2017 [pdf]
   Supervisor: Mehran S. Fallah
6. Dynamic Enforcement of Security Hyperproperties: A Survey, Technical report, 2016 [pdf]
   Supervisor: Mehran S. Fallah
7. A Tool for Rewriting-Based Enforcement of Noninterference in While Programs, Bachelor’s thesis, 2015 [pdf]
   Supervisor: Mehran S. Fallah

Teaching

Chalmers:

• Language-Based Security (Graduate)
• Finite Automata and Formal Languages
• Programming Language Technology (Graduate)

Tehran Polytechnic:

• Advanced Programming (Course Responsible)
• Operating Systems Lab (Course Responsible)
• Computer Lab (Course Responsible)
• Discrete Mathematics
• Design of Programming Languages
• Data Structures
• Principles of Compiler Design
• Computer Networks II
• Information Storage and Retrieval
• Software Engineering I
• Computer Architecture

Honors and Activities

• External Reviewer of the conference flagships CSF’22, EuroS&P’22, S&P’21, CSF’20, EuroS&P’20, CCS’19
• Session chair and speaker at SWITS’22
• Recipient of the Adlerbert Foreign Student Hospitality Foundation scholarship, 2021 and 2022
• Fellow of Student Activities committee (2022-2025) and Member of The Iranian Society of Engineering Education, since 2020
• Member of WebSec Project and Chalmers Security Lab, Chalmers, since September 2019
• The 2nd place among PhD students of the department, Tehran Polytechnic, 2018 and 2019
• The Best Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor of the department, Tehran Polytechnic, 2016, 2017 and 2019
• Scientific Talent by the National Elite Foundation of Iran, 2018
• Top 3% among Course Responsibles, Tehran Polytechnic, Spring 2018
• The 1st place among Master’s students in Information Security, 2016 and 2017
• Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Tehran Polytechnic, 2016
• Direct Admission for Master and PhD studies, Tehran Polytechnic, 2015 and 2017
• The Youngest Course Responsible (at age 22), Lab Instructor (at age 20) and Teaching Assistant (at age 16), Tehran Polytechnic
• Member of Formal Security Lab, Tehran Polytechnic, 2015 - 2019
• Member of the university team for the National Scientific Olympiad in Computer Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic, 2014
• Skipped Three grades of Elementary School as an Exceptional Talent, 2002