Behnaz Bostanipour

Computer Science Researcher

I am a computer science researcher with expertise & experience in data privacy, machine learning and designing distributed algorithms for mobile networks. I have a PhD in Information Systems from University of Lausanne and a MSc & BSc in Communication Systems from EPFL, Switzerland. I was also a post-doctoral researcher at Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and Cardiff University, UK where I designed and developed mechanisms for protecting data privacy in online social networks.

Interests

Data Privacy
Applied Machine Learning
Statistical Learning
Federated Learning
Designing distributed algorithms
Mobile ad hoc networks

Education

PhD in Information Systems, 2016

University of Lausanne
MSc in Communication Systems, 2009

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
BSc in Communication Systems, 2006

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Skills

Programming & Databases

Languages (Python, Java, C/C++, MATLAB, SQL, iOS programming/Objective-C, Shell Script), Databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, H2), IDEs (Netbeans, Eclipse), Version Control System (git, SVN).

Deep Learning/AI

Neural Networks (CNNs, RNNs, GANs, VAEs), Tools(PyCharm, Google Colab, Jupyter Notebook), Libraries (TensorFlow 2/Keras, PyTorch).

Cloud Platforms

Google cloud VM instances, Amazon web services.

Web-based Applications

Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) libraries and Web Technologies (EJB, Java Servlet, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML), Application Servers and Web Containers (GlassFish, Eclipse jetty).

Data Analysis Libraries

pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, NumPy, SciPy, Probability and Statistics Libraries (pomegrenate, ebay bayesian belief networks).

Networking

Java Networking API, Java Remote Method Invocation API, Network embedded systems C (nesC)/TinyOS for wireless sensor networks, Network Simulator 2 (ns-2).

AI Certifications

(see my CV for links to my certificates)

Deep Learning Specilaization

Machine Learning Specialization by Stanford University

TensorFlow Developer Professional Certificate

TensorFlow-Advanced Techniques Specialization

TensorFlow-Data and Deployment Specialization

TensorFlow 2 for Deep Learning Specialization by Imperial College London

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization

Projects

Abstractions and Algorithms for Building Proximity-Based Mobile Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

PhD Thesis

Design and Development of a Secure User Access Control for a Sensor Networks Middleware (for GSN project at EPFL)

Internship

Development of an Energy Efficient Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (for SensorScope project at EPFL)

Internship

Securing an Ad hoc Chat

Optional Semester Project (Master)

Sound-based Monitoring of Wireless Sensor Networks

Semester Project (Master)

Development of a Multi-client Server for an agricultural management system based on wireless sensor networks ( for COMMON-Sense project at EPFL)

Internship

How does Anesthesia Change the Complexity of Physiological Signals?

Semester Project (Bachelor)

Publications

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B.Bostanipour, G. Theodorakopoulos. Joint Obfuscation of Location and Its Semantic Information for Privacy Protection. In Elsevier’s Computers & Security Journal, 2021.

B.Bostanipour, G. Theodorakopoulos. Joint Obfuscation for Privacy Protection in Location-Based Social Networks. In Proc. Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Guildford, UK, 2020.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato. A Neighbor Detection Algorithm Based on Multiple Virtual Mobile Nodes for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Elsevier’s Computer Networks Journal, vol. 112, pp. 294–313, 2017.

B. Bostanipour. Abstractions and Algorithms for Building Proximity-Based Mobile Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. PhD thesis, University of Lausanne, 2016.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato. Neighbor Detection based on Multiple Virtual Mobile Nodes. In Proc. IEEE/Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP), pp. 322–327, Heraklion, Greece, 2016.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato. Neighbor Detection based on Multiple Virtual Mobile Nodes. Technical Report DOP-20150615, University of Lausanne, 2015.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato. Effective and Efficient Neighbor Detection for Proximity-Based Mobile Applications. In Elsevier’s Computer Networks Journal, vol. 79, pp. 216–235, 2015.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato. Using Virtual Mobile Nodes for Neighbor Detection in Proximity-based Mobile Applications. In In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), pp. 9–16, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2014.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato. Improving Neighbor Detection for Proximity-based Mobile Applications. In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), pp. 177–182, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2013.

B. Bostanipour, B. Garbinato, A. Holzer. Spotcast – A Communication Abstraction for Proximity-based Mobile Applications. In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), pp. 121–129, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2012.

B. Bostanipour. Multicore Lattice-basis Reduction. Master’s thesis, EPFL, 2009.

J. Panchard, E. Costanza, J. Freudiger, A. Ouadjaout, B. Bostanipour, J.-P. Hubaux. Making the Invisible Audible: Acoustic Interfaces for the Management of Wireless Sensor Networks. LCA Technical report, EPFL, 2008.

Teaching Experience

Senior Teaching Assistant for Emerging Distributed Architectures (EDA)/Middleware Course

I was the senior teaching assistant for Emerging Distributed Architectures (EDA)/Middleware, a common graduate course of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Lausanne.

This course covered the fundamental topics related to development of multi-tier enterprise architectures using Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). More precisely, it covered Java Servlets, Java ServerPages (JSPs), Enterprise JavaBeans or Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJBs), Java Persistence API, Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) and Java Messaging Service (JMS) for asynchronous messaging (producer/consumer, publish/subscribe). It also covered Zero-configuration networking topics such as advertising, browsing and resolving a service (in Java and Objective-C).

Semesters: Springs 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.

My Main Tasks:

Supervising exercise sessions (Java/J2EE and iOS programming/Objective-C),
Writing detailed project guidelines and preparing exams,
Grading projects and exams.

Senior Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Distributed Systems (IDS) Course

I was the senior teaching assistant for Introduction to Distributed Systems (IDS), a graduate course at University of Lausanne.

This course covered the fundamental concepts of distributed Programming in the context of Java/J2SE namely, Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI), Java Concurrent Programming (Threads, Monitors, etc), Java Networking API (Java socket programing TCP/IP and UDP/IP). It also covered the basic concepts of iOS networking using Objective-C.

Semesters: Falls 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.

My Main Tasks:

Supervising exercise sessions (Java/J2SE and iOS programming/Objective-C),
Writing detailed project guidelines and preparing exams,
Grading projects and exams.