Basil AsSadhan

 

Ph.D. Candidate
KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) 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, PA, USA

Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering      Expected December 2009

Advisor: Professor José M. F. Moura

 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 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 traffic analysis and anomaly detection, statistical signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning.


Work Experience

BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA                                                              Summer 2008

Network Technologies Business Unit,

 

Cisco Systems, Portsmouth, NH, USA                                                                     Summer 2007                                                            

Wireless Networks Business Unit,

 

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Teaching Assistant                                                                                                    

Introduction to Telecommunication Networks                                                            Fall 2007

Applied Cryptography - Graduate level                                                                       Spring 2006

 

King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia                                                           Spring 2001

Electrical Engineering Department

Teaching Assistant                                                                                                    

Communication Networks, C Programming, and Introductory to Circuit Analysis

 

Saudi Telecommunication Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia                                  Fall 2000

Telephone Network Engineer


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, José M. F. Moura, and David Lapsley, “Periodic Behavior in Botnet Command and Control Channels Traffic,” accepted at IEEE GLOBECOM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Nov 30–Dec 4 2009.

Basil AsSadhan, José M. F. Moura, David Lapsley, Christine Jones, and W. Timothy Strayer, “Detecting Botnets using Command and Control Traffic,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, MA, USA, July 9–11 2009.

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), 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 International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2008, Miami, FL, USA, 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 October 11, 2009 3:21 PM