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M.Sc.

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Computer Science (Software Engineering)

• Thesis: Adaptive rule-based phishing detection against URL obfuscation (Grade: 18/20)
• Supervisors: Dr. Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi, Dr. Abbas Ghaemi Bafghi

B.Sc.

Shomal University of Amol, Iran

Computer Engineering (Software)

• Final project: Design and development of a machine learning-based recommender system for personalizing user experience in e-commerce websites (Grade: 20/20)

Distributed deep learning approach for sentiment analysis using BiLSTM & GloVe Embedding

International Journal of Engineering

K. Mahmoudi, E. Mahmodi. (Submitted)

Intelligent detection scheme using adaptive feature reduction for phishing attack

Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier

E. Mahmodi, et al. (Under Review)

UDIS: Enhancing Collaborative Filtering with Fusion of Dimensionality Reduction and Semantic Similarity

Electronics, 13(20), 4073. MDPI

H. Koohi, Z. Kobti, T. Farzi, E. Mahmodi.

A Novel Trust Computation Method Based on User Ratings to Improve the Recommendation

International Journal of Engineering (IJE)

R. B. Nozari, H. Koohi, E. Mahmodi.

A drift aware adaptive method based on minimum uncertainty for anomaly detection in social networking

Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier

E. Mahmodi, H. S. Yazdi, A. G. Bafghi.

Senior System Programmer

NIUniverse

Vulnerability research and system programming.

• Vulnerability Research: audited diagnostic-tool protection layers, bypassing anti-debugging and V-table obfuscation for integrity analysis.
• System Programming: developed high-speed communication drivers for PC-to-hardware interfacing.

Head of Security & Software Team · Lead Reverse Engineer

Negar-Khodro

Architected ECUProg v2: a comprehensive automotive programming platform in C++17 and Qt 6. Optimized memory footprint by 49% and reduced JTAG overhead by 62%.

• Team Leadership: lead the security and software team, setting technical direction across the product line while personally leading firmware reverse engineering.
• Firmware Reconstruction: led reverse-engineering efforts for TriCore (Infineon) and PowerPC (VLE) architectures; reconstructed logic for diagnostic services (UDS/KWP2000).
• Tuning & Remapping: designed 'Negaremap', a native Persian remapping platform with automated table identification and checksum-correction algorithms.
• AI Automation: prototyped an LLM/RAG pipeline and authored custom Ghidra/IDA Pro plugins to accelerate binary analysis of automotive firmware.

Lecturer & M.Sc. Thesis Advisor — Computer Engineering

Shomal University, Amol

Part-time academic role in the Department of Computer Engineering; applied machine-learning research and teaching.

• Taught the graduate course 'Principles of Data Mining' (2nd semester, 2019–2020).
• Advised two M.Sc. theses on recommender systems — group recommendation via leader/member influence, and collaborative filtering with dimensionality reduction & semantic methods; both students co-authored publications with me.

Research Member — Pattern Recognition Lab & Data and Communication Security Lab (DCSL)

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad — DCSL & Pattern Recognition Lab

Continuing member of both labs since my M.Sc.: Prof. Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi's Pattern Recognition Lab (PRL) and Prof. Abbas Ghaemi Bafghi's Data and Communication Security Lab (DCSL).

• Built data-mining, anomaly-detection, and recommender-system pipelines (C++, Python, SQL) underpinning the ESWA (2020) and IJE (2020) publications.
• Ongoing collaboration on the phishing-detection work currently under review at Future Generation Computer Systems.

GPU-Accelerated Graph Analytics (Empirical Study)

• Tiered baseline-to-CUDA methodology with a sequential correctness oracle and CI-enforced validation; RMAT s18 benchmark (262k vertices, 8.4M edges, max degree 59,714 vs mean 32). Parallel and CUDA tiers in progress.

Cross-Domain IDS Generalization (PyTorch)

• Quantified a 21-point in-domain to cross-domain generalization gap (F1 0.97 to 0.76) via external validation.

Context-Augmented RAG for Binary Analysis

• Tool-independent PLT→GOT→symbol call-context extraction; pluggable LLM backends (mock/OpenAI/Ollama) with an honest method comparison.

SymCC / SymQEMU / SymCC-RT — upstream contributions (EURECOM S3)

• symcc: ABI mismatch — runtime parameters declared as i1 instead of int (issue #175); unclean 32-bit `taken` value passed to _sym_push_path_constraint (issue #83).
• symcc-rt: Z3 reference-count leak in the simple backend. symqemu: NULL-pointer dereference in sym_movcond_internal, plus a README build-path correction.

Bajaj MSE2 ECU Reverse Engineering & Security Audit

• Reconstructed the Fault Management logic (sub_2B2C) and DTC generation thresholds.
• Identified vulnerabilities in the Seed/Key security handshake (Service 0x27) by mapping XOR/bit-shift operations.

PISAD ECU Full Simulator (PowerPC)

• Implemented register monitoring and real-time state analysis for security-bypass verification.

Locomotive GT26 Control System

• Developed a high-speed data-acquisition system using FPGA-to-PC shared-memory communication.

Reviewer Committee Member

ICCKE 2020

10th International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering, Mashhad.