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<h2 class="subtitle">developing authentication protocols to track physical objects</h2>
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<li>Crytographic protocols to authenticate objects</li>
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<h2 class="subtitle">Side Channel Privacy Leakages</h2>
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<li>Sensor-based privacy leakages</li>
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<li>Verifiable Auditing for Fairness</li>
<li>Decentralised Black-box Auditing of ML models</li>
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<h2 class="subtitle">Socio-Technical perception of trust and trustworthiness in ML
systems
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<li>Trustworthy ML technologies</li>
<li>Trust perception in various ML-based usecases</li>
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<li>Man-in-the-Browser attacks</li>
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<li>Tracking in different platforms</li>
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<h3>Texture-based Paper Sheet Fingerprinting</h3>
<p>a novel, reliable and fast identification adn authentication mechanisms based on unique
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<p>The first in-browser attack to mobile sensors using JavaScript sensor APIs. Here, we
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<li>Patched Severe Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Applie Safari</li>
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<h1 class="title">Research Team</h1>
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<p>I am expanding my team for now so keep an eye on any upcoming hiring notifications.</p>
<h5>Current members:</h5>
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<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/james-m-clarke">James Clarke</a></b> (PhD candidate)</li>
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<h5>Alumni:</h5>
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<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://www.dwresearch.online/">Patrick Wake</a></b> (PhD
candidate,
Global Head
of Information Security, FDM Group), co-supervised with Prof. Sue Black.</li>
<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/amira-a-saleem/">Amira
Alrewetae</a></b> (PhD
candidate), co-supervised with Dr. Gaganjeet Aujla</li>
<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://joshua-harrison.com/">Josh Harrison</a></b> (Research
Project,
2022) --> Software Development Engineer @ Amazon uk</li>
<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-reeves-518669144/">Jack
Reeves</a></b>
(Research Project,
2022) --> Digital Consultant @ Newton Europe </li>
<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jia-xiu-sai-a80825169/">Jia Xiu
Sai</a></b>
(Research Project, 2022)
--> Graduate Software Engineer @ THG</li>
<li class="list-item"><b><a href="https://kjtian.github.io/">Max Dormon</a></b> (Research
Project,
2022)
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Software Engineer @ JPMorgn Chase
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<td>2022-Now</td>
<td><a href="https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W032481/1">AGENCY: Assuring
Citizen Agency in a World
with Complex Online Harms</a></td>
<td>Co-I in EPSRC funded project (See <a href="https://agencyresearch.net/"> project page</a>)</td>
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<td>2021-2023</td>
<td><a
href="https://petras-iot.org/project/cyber-security-and-privacy-in-fertility-technologies-cyfer/">Cyfer:
Cyber security
and Privacy in Fertility Technologies</a></td>
<td>Co-I in PETRAS funded project (See <a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/maryammjd/cyfer-project"> project page</a>)| <i
class="fa fa-vr-cardboard"></i> <a
href="https://royalhollowayartarchives.viewin360.co/share/collection/7Jnt3?logo=0&info=0&fs=1&vr=1&sd=1&initload=0&thumbs=1">Virtual
Cyfer Art Exhibition</a></td>
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<td>2019</td>
<td><a href="https://standict.eu/">StandICT grant</a></td>
<td>Grant to facilitate standardization impact in ICT (see <a
href="https://www.standict.eu/sites/default/files/Final%20Impact%20Report%20Europe%E2%80%99s%20contributions%20to%20ICT%20Standardisation%20globally%20-%20Impacts%20from%20StandlCT.eu%20funding.pdf">
output in W3C annual meeting in Fukoaka, Japan)</a></td>
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<td>2017</td>
<td>Economist and Kaspersky cybersecurity award</td>
<td><a href="./projects/economist.html">Award on using Blockchain for e-voting.</a> Our team was the only winner
outside the USA
in the top three finalists (among many international participations of esteemed
universities such as UCL)</td>
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<h1 class="title">Research Impact</h1>
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<th>Year</th>
<th>Product</th>
<th>Project</th>
<th>Detail</th>
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<td>2023</td>
<td>W3C</td>
<td>Acknowledged in the standardisation for pressure sensors</td>
<td><a href=" https://www.w3.org/TR/compute-pressure/"><i class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></a></td>
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<td>2019</td>
<td>Patent in the USA</td>
<td>Novel method for preventing counterfeiting of an object</td>
<td><a href=" https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ed/48/7c/02b4251a99dd7b/US10680825.pdf"><i
class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></a></td>
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<td>2018</td>
<td>Mozilla Firefox</td>
<td>Mozilla Firefox deployed a fix on
Firefox 46 (CVE-2016-2813) for sensor access model Vulnerabilities</td>
<td><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-43/"><i
class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></a></td>
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<td>2018</td>
<td>Apple iOS</td>
<td>Apple included a fix on Safari in IOS 9.3 (CVE-2016-1780) for sensor
access model
Vulnerabilities</td>
<td><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206166"><i class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></a>
</td>
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<td>2016</td>
<td>W3C</td>
<td>Specific Privacy and Security section added to the Motion/Orientation
standard
document</td>
<td><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-orientation-event-20160818/"><i
class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2014</td>
<td>Apple Safari</td>
<td>Vulnerabilities found in Private Browsing (bug report #14685058)</td>
<td><a href="./projects/economist.html"><i class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<h1 class="title">Media Appearances</h1>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Deep Learning Acoustic Side Channel Attack:</strong> (selected): ACM Communications, E&T,
Keesing, Gizmodo</li>
<li><strong>Polymer Banknote Fingerprinting:</strong> (selected): ACM Communications, E&T, Keesing,
Gizmodo</li>
<li><strong>Paper sheet Fingerprinting:</strong> (selected): the Economist and Wall Street Journal</li>
<li><strong>Mobile Sensor Security:</strong> (selected): NU Press, BBC, Guardian, Telegraph,
Independent, NYPost, Sun, The Australian, Economic Times, TechCrunch, Engadget, Popular Science,
Science Friday (Americal National Radio), ars Technica, Reddit, xda-developers, CBC News, German
Public Radio, Die Welt (German), Sina (Chinese), Masjable (French), Lavoz (Spanish).</li>
<li><strong>blockchain-based e-voting system</strong> CoinDesk</li>
</ul>
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<h1 class="title">Past affiliations</h1>
<div class="content">
<ul>
<li>Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Department of Computer Science, Durham University, (August
2020
2020 - January 2023)</li>
<li>Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) at the Secure and Resilient Systems (SRS) Group
of
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, working with Prof. Aad van Moorsel (January
2019 - August 2020)</li>
<li>Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) at the Secure and Resilient Systems (SRS) Group
of
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, working with Prof. Feng Hao (June 2018 -
January 2019)</li>
<li>PhD at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, under supervision of Prof. Feng Hao,
<a href=/extra/Toreini-Thesis.pdf>Thesis </a>
</li>
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