Arian Niaki
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About me
I'm Arian, a 5th year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. As a member of Calipr Lab, I'm working under the supervision of Dr. Phillipa Gill. My research interest broadly lies in the areas of networking and Internet measurement.
Work Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2017 - Present
- Conducting research in the areas of Internet Measurement, Privacy and Security.
- Investigating DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS.
Research Intern
June 2021 - August 2021
- Worked on the worldwide deployment of a traffic measurement project.
Research Intern
June 2020 - September 2020
- Worked on analyzing and comparing CDN performance globally
- Analyzed web performance data from PSQL databases
Research Intern
May 2018 - August 2018
- Worked on a research project about DNS cache probing
- Performed DNS cache probing to estimate the population of IoT devices
June 2015 - July 2016
- Worked on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Web Services Using High Level Extensions of Petri Nets.
- Supervised by Dr. Reza Entezari Maleki and Prof. Ali Movaghar
Software Engineering Intern
January 2016 - July 2016
- Produced, designed and analyzed models for software information systems and web applications.
- Designed a database for web applications.
Software Developer
January 2014 - December 2014
- Developed several Android mobile applications
- Designed, developed, and maintained Django/Semantic-UI web applications
- Designed, developed a web crawler with Scrapy Spider
Publications
Published in To appear in USENIX Security 2021
Authors: Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Jakub Dalek, Jeffrey Knockel, Pellaeon Lin, Bill Marczak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Phillipa Gill, Michalis Polychronakis
Published in To appear in PoPETS 2021
Authors: Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Phillipa Gill, Michalis Polychronakis
Published in In Proceedings of the 22nd Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2021)
Authors: Arian Akhavan Niaki, William Marczak, Sahand Farhoodi, Andrew McGregor, Phillipa Gill and Nicholas Weaver
Published in In Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet. FOCI 20. USENIX 2020
Authors: Anonymous, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Phillipa Gill and Amir Houmansadr
Published in In Proceedings of ACM ASIACCS 2020
Authors: Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nikita Borisov, Phillipa Gill and Michalis Polychronakis
Published in In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2020
Authors: Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Michalis Polychronakis and Phillipa Gill
Published in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland). IEEE. 2020
Authors: Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Abbas Razaghpanah, Nicolas Christin, and Phillipa Gill
Published in In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2019
Authors: Fangfan Li, Arian Akhavan Niaki, David Choffnes, Phillipa Gill, and Alan Mislove
Published in Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
Authors: Abbas Razaghpanah, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Johanna Amann, and Phillipa Gill
Published in Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). London, UK.
Authors: Fangfan Li, Abbas Razaghpanah, Arash Molavi Kakhki, Arian Akhavan Niaki, David Choffnes, Phillipa Gill, and Alan Mislove
Published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2017
Authors: Reza Entezari-Maleki, Sayed Ehsan Etesami, Negar Ghorbani, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Leonel Sousa, Ali Movaghar