Sonia Jahid

PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
sjahid2 AND illlinois AND edu

Latest

Feb 08, 2012: Travel Grant to attend PerCom at Lugano, Switzerland!
Dec 27, 2011: Our paper 'DECENT' got accepted to SESOC 2012.
Aug 16, 2011: I am a TA for CS425/CSE424/ECE428, 'Distributed Systems' this semester.
Aug 15, 2011: Got a Scholarship Sponsored by Symantec to Attend GHC at Portland, OR
Jun 06, 2011: Got a Travel Grant to Attend PETS 2011
Jun 06, 2011: Started an Internship at Xerox Research Lab, Webster, NY
Apr 15, 2011: Successfully Passed Preliminary Exam!
Dec 05, 2010: My paper on EASiER is accepted to ASIACCS 2011.
Nov 20, 2010: My paper on MyABDAC is accepted to ACM CODASPY 2011.
Aug 16, 2010: I am a TA for CS461, 'Information Assurance' this semester.
Jul 09, 2010: I received a scholarship to attend and present my poster on Encryption in Social Networks at GHC 2010.

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I am advised by Professor Nikita Borisov and Professor Carl A. Gunter. I received my undergraduate degree from the Departmenet of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Please send me an email for the latest copy of my CV.

Research

My area of interest is access control in online social networks. Currently I am working on a decentralized architecture for online social networks. My recent works include attribute-based access control over databases, and countermeasure of denial of services. Here is a summary of my works.

Current Works

Social Networks: Attribute-based encryption for online social networks, security and privacy of decentralized social networks.

Past Works

Healthcare: Experience-based access control for healthcare system.
Databases: Attribute-based access control for databases.
DoS: Client puzzles as denial of service countermeasure.
Information Retrieval: Entity search (e.g., email, phone) from web, and analysis of various information retrieval tools.

Publications

Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia
DECENT: A Decentralized Architecture for Enforcing Privacy in Online Social Networks
4th IEEE International Workshop on SEcurity and SOCial Networking, 2012
[pdf ][pptx][bib]
Sonia Jahid, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov
EASiER: Encryption-based Access Control in Social Networks with Efficient Revocation
6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, 2011
[pdf ][pptx][bib]
Sonia Jahid, Carl A. Gunter, Imranul Hoque, Hamed Okhravi
MyABDAC: Compiling XACML Policies for Attribute-Based Database Access Control
1st ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2011
[pdf ][ppt][bib]
Ellick M. Chan, Carl A. Gunter, Sonia Jahid, Evgeni Peryshkin, and Daniel Rebolledo
Using Rhythmic Nonces for Puzzle-Based DoS Resistance
ACM Computer Security Architectures Workshop, 2008.
[pdf ][ppt][bib]

Tech Reports

Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia
DECENT: A Decentralized Architecture for Enforcing Privacy in Online Social Networks
CoRR arXiv technical report, 2011

Posters

Sonia Jahid, Nikita Borisov
Enhancing Security and Privacy of Online Social Networks (Poster)
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2011
Google CS Grad Forum, 2012
[pdf]
Sonia Jahid, Nikita Borisov
Encryption-based Access Control in Social Networks (Poster)
ACM Student Research Competition, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2010
[pdf][bib]
Sonia Jahid, Imranul Hoque, Hamed Okhravi, Carl A. Gunter
Enhancing Database Access Control with XACML Policy (Poster)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2009
[pdf][poster][bib]

Drafts

PIRATTE: Proxy-based Immediate Revocation of ATTribute-based Encryption

[Please send me an email for copies.]

Teaching

Teaching Assitant:

Distributed Systems (CS425) - Fall 2011.
Information Assurance (CS461) - Fall 2010.
Introduction to Computing with Application to Business and Commerce (CS105) - Fall 2007

Lecturer:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (July 2005-July 2006).

Talks

Apr 19, 2011: Invited Talk on EASiER to Symantec Research Labs (SRL). [pptx].
Mar 23, 2011: Presentation on EASiER at ASIACCS (by Prof. Nikita Borisov). [pptx].
Mar 10, 2011: Survey of Privacy Techniques Based on Cryptography in Social Networks in the Course Advanced Internetworking (CS598MCC). [pptx]. [The slides are almost the same with March 08 talk, except some minor changes]
Mar 08, 2011: Survey of Privacy Techniques Based on Cryptography in Social Networks in the Course Computer Security II (CS463).[pptx]
Feb 11, 2011: Presenation on "MyABDAC: Compiling XACML Policies for Attribute-Based Database Access Control".[pptx]
Apr 01, 2009: Presenation on "SPrint: A Smart Printing Service for Siebel Center".[pptx]
Oct 11, 2007: Lecture on Email Spam.[ppt]