Dr Zahra Pooranian

Zahra is Lecturer in Computer Science at University of Reading since August 2023.

Zahra Pooranian was a postdoctoral fellow in Network Security at the 5GIC & 6GIC, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK since 2020 to July 2023. Zahra has participated in/contributed to two projects: PASSCOINFOG (funded by Huawei-finalized) and AUTOTRUST (Funded by European Space Agency-ongoing). Before, she was a postdoctoral at The Alan Turing Institute and worked on National Privacy Project in London, UK. She was working on Enhancing Security and Privacy of National Identity Systems project. From 2017 to 2019, she was postdoctoral in network security under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Conti at the University of Padua, Padua, Italy. She was part of the Security and PRIvacy Through Zeal (SPRITZ) research group and worked on a European H2020 project, TagItSmart! - Smart Tags-driven service platform for enabling ecosystems of connected objects. Her main activities include but are not limited to cloud/fog storage security and privacy and applying AI/ML techniques for malware detection. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in February 2017. She was honored to be supervised by Prof. Enrico Tronci on Automating Design of Smart Grid Systems. Besides, she was involved in the FP7 project SmartHG (Energy Demand Aware Open Services for Smart Grid Intelligent Automation).