FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah
- Emailmsalsabah@hbku.edu.qa
- Phone4 542 257
- Office locationA148
Biography
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before that, Dr. Al-Sabah was an Assistant Professor at the computer science and engineering department at Qatar University. Her research interests lie in the areas of network security and privacy enhancing technologies, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology. She has published papers that were featured in various magazines such as Wired and New Scientist, and was awarded the Education Excellence Day Platinum Award for PhD holders in Qatar in 2014. Dr. Al-Sabah obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2013 and later spent 16 months at MIT as a visiting scientist.
Research Interests
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Network Security
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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Cryptocurrency
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Blockchain
Experience
Senior Scientist
QCRI (cyber security)
May 2019 - presentScientist
QCRI (cyber security)
Mar 2018 - May 2019Assistant Prof
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
Sept 2013 - Feb 2018
Lecturer
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
2007 - 2013Teaching Assistant
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
2005 - 2007
Education
Visiting Scientist at CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
March 2014 - June 2015Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
June 2013M.A.Sc., Computer Networks
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
May 2007
B.S., Computer Science
American University in Cairo, Egypt
June 2004
Selected Publications
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Yazan Boshmaf, Husam AlJawaheri, and Mashael AlSabah. BlockTag: Design and Applications of a Tagging System for Blockchain Analysis.
Accepted to appear in 34th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection,
June 2019 -
Mashael AlSabah, Ryan Riley, and Gabriele Olegeri. Your Culture is in Your Password: An Analysis of a Demographically-diverse Password Dataset.
Elsevier Computers and Security,
April 2018 -
Mashael Al-Sabah, Alin Tomescu, Ilia Lebedev, Dimitrios Serpanos, and Srini Devadas. PrivIPK: Certicateless and Secure Email Communication.
Elsevier Computers and Security,
April 2017 -
Mashael Al-Sabah, and Ian Goldberg. Performance and Security Improvements for Tor: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Impact: CSUR has a high impact factor. An earlier version of this paper has been used as assigned reading in a Computer Security course at University of California, Berkeley
September 2016 -
Albert Kwon, Mashael Al-Sabah (joint first author), David Lazar, Srini Devadas, and Marc Dacier. Circuit Fingerprinting Attacks: Passive Deanonymization of Tor Hidden Services.
24th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2015. [Impact: This paper received significant media attention, and was featured in more 15 news articles. This paper has also been used as an assigned reading in various computer security courses in various leading universities such as John Hopkins University, University of Waterloo, and University of California, Berkeley]
August 2015 -
Mashael Al-Sabah, and Ian Goldberg. PCTCP: Per-Circuit TCP-over-IPSec Transport for Anonymous Communication Overlay Networks.
20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
November 2013 -
Mashael Al-Sabah, Kevin Bauer, Tariq Elahi, and Ian Goldberg. The Path Less Travelled: Overcoming Tor's Bottlenecks with Traffic Splitting.
13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013. [Impact: This paper received Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2013.]
2013 -
Mashael Al-Sabah, Kevin Bauer, and Ian Goldberg. Enhancing Tor's Performance using Real-time Traffic Classification.
19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2012.
October 2012 -
Tariq Elahi, Kevin Bauer, Mashael Al-Sabah and Ian Goldberg. Changing of the Guards: A Framework for Understanding and Improving Entry Guard Selection in Tor.
11th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society,
October 2012 -
Mashael Al-Sabah, Kevin Bauer, Ian Goldberg, Dirk Grunwald, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey Voelker.
DefenestraTor: Throwing Out Windows in Tor. 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2011.
July 2011 -
Gabriele Lau, Mashael AlSabah, Muhammed Jaseemuddin, Nejad Bhuiyan.
Conextaware RAON Middleware for Opportunistic Networks. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing,
July 2017
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