Avesta Hojjati
- Champaign IL
Education
Aug 2016 - Aug 2021
Aug 2014 - May 2016
M.Sc in Computer Science (In progress)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
GPA 4.0
Aug 2010 - Aug 2014
B.Sc in Computer Science
Texas Tech University
GPA 3.74
Work experience
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Part Time Instructor
Parkland College
Linux Instructor for CSC 171
Jan 2014 - Present
CEO
Phalanx Investment Properties
As a CEO and co-founder of Phalanx Investment Properties, I manage the day to day operation which includes but not limited to identifying new opportunities to invest and purchasing new properties.
Aug 2014 - Jan 2015
Teaching Assistant for
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Designed and graded machine problems. Machine problems for the entire semester were designed to help students gain knowledge about cyber security.
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
High Performance Computing Administrator
Texas Tech University-Mechanical Engineering Department
Designed and implemented a 146 node High Performance Computer(HPC) to model a real time digital holographic microscope for cell flow interaction.
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Paranoid Intern
Yahoo!
Dec 2014 - Present
Research Assistant
Illinois Security Lab.
Performed research under the supervision of professor Carl. A Gunter. The primarily focus of this research was vulnerabilities in medical devices and designating a "black box" model to record and replay each event.
Publications
Hojjati, A., Molaei, M. and Sheng, J. (2013) ' Development of real time digital holographic microscope for cell flow interaction using High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. ', DFD13, Meeting of the American Physical Society, 1(3012), pp. 72-75.
Darabseh, A., Hojjati, A. and Siemi-Namin, A. (2013) ' Continues Authentication in Real Life Systems using Key Board Activities', International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF), 2(4), pp. 20-21.
Wang, T., Hojjati, A. (2014) 'mAuditor: Mobile Auditing Framework for mhealth Applications' "under review"
Cheh, C., Hojjati A. (2015) 'Framework for Evaluating Privacy-Utility Trade-off in the Context of Social Network Data' to appear in CCS 2015 (Poster)