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ameer-mohammed

Academic

Dr.

Ameer A. Mohammed

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02E1173
ameer.mohammed@ku.edu.ku

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D.  Computer Science University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA 2018
M.S.  Information Security Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 2013
B.S. Computer Engineering Kuwait University, Kuwait 2008 

 

Selected Publications

  • Ziad Ali, Ameer Mohammed, and Imtiaz Ahmad, “Vulnerability of Deep Forests to Adversarial Attacks”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024 
  • Ameer Mohammed, Ziad Ali, and Imtiaz Ahmad, “Enhancing Adversarial Robustness with Randomized Interlayer Processing”, Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 
  • Ziad Ali, Ameer Mohammed, and Imtiaz Ahmad, “Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Secret Key-Based Defenses”, IEEE Access, 2022 
  • Maryam Aljame, Ayyub Imtiaz, Imtiaz Ahmad, and Ameer Mohammed, “Deep forest model for diagnosing COVID-19 from routine blood tests”, Scientific Reports, 2021. 
  • Maryam Aljame, Imtiaz Ahmad, Ayyub Imtiaz, and Ameer Mohammed, “Ensemble learning model for diagnosing COVID-19 from routine blood tests”, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2020. 
  • Tassos Dimitriou and Ameer Mohammed, “Fair and Privacy-Respecting Bitcoin Payments for Smart Grid Data”, IEEE Internet of Things, 2020. 
  • Ali Kelkawi, Ameer Mohammed, and Anwar Alyatama, “Incremental Deployment of Hybrid IP/SDN Network with Optimized Traffic Engineering (Best Paper Award), IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2020. 
  • meer Mohammed and Ahmad Ashkanani, “A Conceptual Design of A Blockchain-Based System for Improving Supply Chain Effectiveness”, Kuwait University Research Poster, 2020. 
  • Saed Mahloujifar, Mohammad Mahmoody, and Ameer Mohammed, “Data Poisoning Attacks in Multi-Party Learning”, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019. 
     

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution  Designation  Year/Period  FT/PT 
Kuwait University Assistant Professor 2018 - Present FT
University of California, Berkeley Visiting Researcher Fall 2017 FT
University of Virginia Teaching Assistant Fall 2015 PT

 

Industry Experience
Organization Designation  Year/Period  FT/PT 
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Kuwait  System Engineer 2008 - 2011 FT

 

Community Service

Service Activities

  • ACM Kuwait Chapter Webmaster, Fall 2007 
  • London International Youth Science Forum, Student Representative for Kuwait University, 2008 
  • Reviewer, International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO), 2016 – 2017 
  • Reviewer, EUROCRYPT, 2016 – 2018 
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography (PKC), 2016 – 2018  
  • College of Engineering Innovation Center, Committee Member, 2020 – 2022 
  • Student Affairs Committee Coordinator, Computer Engineering Department, 2019 – 2023 
  • Undergraduate Program Committee Coordinator, 2023 – 2024  
  • Program Co-chair, Cybersecurity Education & Research Conference 2019 – 2023 
     
Other

Certifications / professional registrations

  • Telecommunications Training Course, Zain, Kuwait, 2007 
  • .NET Best Practices, Learning Tree Institute, United Kingdom, 2009  
  • CITI Human Subject Research Certification, 2023

Membership in Professional Organization

  • IEEE, member, 2006 – Present 
  • IEEE Computer Science, member, 2008 – Present 
  • ACM, member, 2014 – Present  
  • International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), member, 2014 – Present  
  • Kuwait Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Society (KARS), founding member, 2021 – Present 
  • Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP), member, 2023 – Present  

Honors and Awards

  • Dean’s Honor List, Awarded by College of Engineering and Petroleum, Kuwait University, 2008. 
  • E-Learning Project Award, Capstone Design Convention, 2008  
     

Recent Professional Development Activities

  • CCNA-1,2,3 Networking Course, Cisco Networks, Kuwait, 2019 
  • SIEMENS MindConnect Workshop, Kuwait, 2023 
     
Full CV