Biography
Maryam Karimi received her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems in the School of Computing and Information. She is also a holder of the CISSP and CC certificates, demonstrating her expertise in the field of information security. Her thesis was on security of the internet of things (IoT) for which she achieved second place in the ACM graduate research competition at the Grace Hopper conference 2019. Maryam's expertise in computer science has led to numerous publications in top conferences such as CCGRID, ACM MSWIM, IEEE LCN, and others. She is also the winner of the first place in the international RoboCup competition in 2014. Her research interests span a wide range of topics, including security, IoT data integrity, wireless Software Defined Networks, and machine learning. Currently, Maryam is a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist in the innovation and future of industry research group at FM, where she is creating a testbed to conduct research in security and vulnerabilities of industrial IoT.