Basil AsSadhan

 

Ph.D. Candidate and King Abdullah Scholar
 
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Carnegie Mellon University 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
 
Office: Porter Hall, B9
Tel:  +1-412-268-7103
Fax: +1-512-519-7417
E-mail: bsadhan AT ece DOT cmu DOT edu
 


Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering      Expected May 2009

Advisor: Professor José M. F. Moura

 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering        December 2003

 

King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

B.S. Electrical Engineering September          June 2000


Research Interests

Computer networks, network security, network traffic anomaly detection, pattern recognition and machine learning.


Selected Graduate Coursework

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Communication & Computer Networks

Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Detection and Estimation Theory

Pattern Recognition Theory

Computer & Network Security

Wireless Communications

Operating Systems

Optical Networks

Cryptography


Publications

Basil AsSadhan, Hyong Kim, and José M. F. Moura. “Long-Range Dependence Analysis of Control and Data Planes Network Traffic,” in Proceedings of the Saudi International Innovation Conference (SIIC 2008), Leeds, UK, June 9–10, 2008.

Basil AsSadhan, Hyong Kim, José M. F. Moura, and Xiaohui Wang, “Network Traffic Behavior Analysis by Decomposition into Control and Data Planes,” in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN’08) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2008, Miami, FL, April 18, 2008.

Basil As-Sadhan, Ziad Al Bawab, Ammar El Seed, and Mohamed Noamany, “Comparative Evaluation of Different Classifiers for Robust Distorted Character Recognition,” in Proceedings of SPIE, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIII, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan 15-19, 2006.


Relevant Academic Projects

Comparison between different variants of TCP using Network Simulator (NS)

Studying and Applying the Wavelet Transform to Signal Scrambling and Compression

Studying the development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), B.S. Graduation Project


Activities

Saudi Students House, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh

President

1/2006 – 4/2006

Vice President           

5/2005 –12/2005

Social Coordinator

1/2005 –12/2005


Last updated July 22, 2008 4:22 PM