Dr. Ali Gholami


Department for Computational Science and Technology (CST)
PDC Center for High Performance Computing
CSC School of Computer Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Teknikringen 14, Room 510
SE-10044, Stockholm
Telephone: +46-8-790-6356
Email: gholami@kth.se

About me

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science with the specialization in High Performance Computing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2016. I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science at Tehran Polytechnic in 2005 and then pursued graduate studies at the School of Information and Communication Technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2006. From there I was awarded an M.Sc. in IT with an emphasis on Software Engineering for Distributed Systems. During the summer 2014, I was research intern at the NYU School of Computer Science and Engineering, where I carried out research on buliding secure user-level sandboxing mechanisms. My research focuses on the security and privacy concerns to handle sensitive data. Another area of my research includes applying machine learning techniques on massive amount of datasets.

Education

  • Ph.D. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2011-2016)
    PDC Center for High Performance Computing
    CSC School of Computer Science and Communication
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Thesis title: Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing

  • M.Sc. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2006-2008)
    School of Information and Communication Technology
    Degree: Master of Science
    Thesis title: Benchmarking of Integrated OGSA-BES with the Grid Middleware

  • B.Sc. Tehran Polytechnic, Iran (2000-2005)
    Dept. of Computer Science
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Degree: Bachelor of Science
    Thesis title: An extension of ATAM for Evaluating Software Architecture of Distributed Systems

Projects

  • Lead Cloud Security Architect, BiobankCloud
  • Big Data Security Architect, eCPC
  • Security Officer, PRACE
  • Big Data and Cloud Architect, VENUS-C
  • Research Engineer, OMII-Europe

Publications

  • Design and implementation of the advanced cloud privacy threat modeling.
    Ali Gholami, Anna-Sara Lind, Jane Reichel, Jan-Eric Litton, Ake Edlund, Erwin Laure, International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2016.

  • Big Data Security and Privacy Issues in the Cloud.
    Ali Gholami, Erwin Laure, International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), Vol. 8, No. 1, January, 2016.

  • Advanced Cloud Privacy Threat Modeling.
    Ali Gholami, Erwin Laure, The 4th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Zurich, Switzerland, Jan Zizka et al. (Eds) : CCSIT, SIPP, AISC, CMCA, SEAS, CSITEC, DaKM, PDCTA, NeCoM - 2016 pp. 229–239, 2016.

  • Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing - A Survey of Recent Developments.
    Ali Gholami, Erwin Laure, Seventh International Conference on Network & Communications Security (NCS 2015), David C. Wyld et al. (Eds): NCS, Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiMoNe-2015), pp. 131 - 2015 pp. 131–150, 2015.

  • BiobankCloud: a Platform for the Secure Storage, Sharing, and Processing of Large Biomedical Data Sets.
    Alysson Bessani, Jörgen Brandt, Marc Bux, Vinicius Cogo, Lora Dimitrova, Jim Dowling, Ali Gholami, Kamal Hakimzadeh, Micheal Hummel, Mahmoud Ismail, Erwin Laure, Ulf Leser, Jan-Eric Litton, Roxanna Martinez, Salman Niazi, Jane Reichel, Karin Zimmermann, the First International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, Hawaii, USA, 2015 (invited as keynote).

  • A Security Framework for Population-Scale Genomics Analysis.
    Ali Gholami, Jim Dowling, Erwin Laure, The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, pp. 106–114, July 2015.

  • Privacy Threat Modeling for Emerging BiobankClouds.
    Ali Gholami, Anna-Sara Lind, Jane Reichel, Jan-Eric Litton, Ake Edlund, Erwin Laure, Journal of Procedia Computer Science, vol. 37, pp. 489 – 496, 2014. The 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2014)/The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2014)/ Affiliated Workshops, Halifax, Canada, 2014.

  • Privacy-Preservation for Publishing Sample Availability Data with Personal Identifiers.
    Ali Gholami, Erwin Laure, Peter Somogyi, Ola Spjuth, Salman Niazi, Jim Dowling, Journal of Medical and Bioengineering, vol. 4, pp. 117–125, April 2014.

  • Cloud Privacy Threat Modeling.
    Ali Gholami, Ake Edlund, Erwin Laure, The 8th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management for Emerging Services and Technologies, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2013.

  • ScaBIA: Scalable Brain Image Analysis in the Cloud.
    Ali Gholami, Gert Svensson, Erwin Laure, Matthias Eickhoff and Götz Brasche, CLOSER 2013- Proceedings of the 3rd the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, Aachen, Germany, pp. 329–336, 2013.

  • Adaptive Data Management in the ARC Grid Middleware.
    David Cameron, Ali Gholami, Dmytro Karpenko and Aleksandr Konstantinov, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Grid and Cloud Middleware, Vol. 331, 2011.

  • Benchmarking of Integrated OGSA-BES with the Grid Middleware.
    Fredrik Hedman, Morris Riedel, Phillip Mucci, Gilbert Netzer, Ali Gholami, M. Shahbaz Memon, A. Shiraz Memon and Zeeshan A. Shah, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, Vol. 54152, 2009.

Technical Reports

Teaching

  • Principles of Computer II (C++ Programming), Spring semesters 2004, Course Supervisor: Dr. E. Shiri, Computer Science Dept., Tehran Polytechnic.
    My responsibilities were running the lab sessions, correcting assignments and grading student projects.

  • Internet Technology and E-Commerce, Spring and Winter semesters 2004, Course Superviosr: Dr. M. A. Daryani, Iranian Entrepreneurship Center.
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Experience

    After the second year of my undergraduate studies, in 2003, I started working as a part-time software engineer at the Naji Research and Development Company. There I participated in developing a nation-wide project to issue passports and driving licenses Iranian citizens. In 2004, I joined the research department at the Raahbar Informatic Services Company as a software quality engineer for the Iranian e-trade project lead by Prof. A. Abdolahzadeh. Furthermore, during the period 2008-2009, I worked as an IT consultant for the telecom companies Telenor and Ericsson in Sweden. I also worked as a research engineer for the Nordic Data Grid Facility before starting my doctoral studies in 2011.
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