Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Languages
Timeline
Academic Affiliations
Teaching Courses
Professional Courses And Workshops
Achievements And Awards
Research Interests
Formal Method Tools
Process Mining Tools
BOOKS
Publications
Hobbies and Interests
References
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Mahdi Sahlabadi

Mahdi Sahlabadi

Asan,46

Summary

I am looking for a challenging and productive position that will provide an opportunity to learn, develop, and utilize my existing skills in Research and development to give myself a competitive edge. I have over 15 years of progressive experience and search in different software fields. I have worked in various academic and industrial environments, as indicated here. This exposure has allowed me to gain substantial knowledge and an opportunity to identify future technology trends in Software Architecture, Process Mining, and Cyber Security

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Gig Academic Lecturer

National University of Malaysia
03.2025 - Current

Research Professor

Soonchunhyang University
08.2023 - Current
  • Researching Smart Car, V2X, Mobile Baseband, ICS, PLC, and IoT Device security.

Quality Assurance Manager

BitHolla
03.2021 - Current
  • Developing, implementing, and maintaining an automated testing system with Selenium, Cypress, Gherkin to test the quality and reliability of the organizations products.

Postdoctoral Researcher

UKM
01.2021 - 12.2023
  • Research on software architecture performance and security.

Chief Information Security Consultant

Exir
05.2018 - 07.2020
  • Security operations, DLP, fraud prevention, identity and access management, governance, investigations, forensics.

Software Architect / Cloud Architect (AWS)

Online Exchange of Sharif University
01.2019 - 05.2019
  • Threat mitigation via network security analysis.

Cybersecurity Specialist

UKM
01.2017 - 12.2018
  • Developed new component architecture models and integrated industry standards.

IT Consultant

Persian Search Engine Yooz
02.2015 - 12.2016
  • Technology evaluation, support, and implementation.

IT Manager

Iran's National Elites Foundation
02.2015 - 02.2016
  • Managed and delivered 10 projects on-time and within budget.

Research Engineer

Singapore Management University
08.2014 - 02.2015
  • Conducted R&D; applied research models and experiments.

Research Engineer

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
05.2014 - 08.2014
  • Improved technical processes and developed new tech.

Applications Consultant

Quintiq (Dutch Software Company)
01.2012 - 12.2013
  • Directed software lifecycle tests, designed cross-platform software.

Application Development Analyst

SOFTOM, National University of Malaysia
02.2012 - 02.2013
  • Converted engine raw data into visual formats via custom applications.

Team Leader

BrightSoft
06.2009 - 06.2010
  • Developed websites for businesses.

ERP Developer

Hardmetal Knives Sdn Bhd
12.2008 - 05.2009
  • Developed ERP using Oracle Forms; conducted testing and verification.

Senior Web Developer

Magellan Software Company
03.2008 - 11.2008
  • Web development using ASP.NET, PHP, SQL, AJAX.

Senior Developer

Tarh Gostar Beheshti
02.2007
  • Client collaboration, bug testing, product enhancement.

Development Team Leader

Fara Farzin Rayane
02.2005 - 02.2006
  • Led search engine architecture and NLP/AI research.

UNIX System Administrator

AXA Insurance
01.2004 - 01.2005
  • Provided technical support and troubleshooting.

Education

Ph.D. - Computer Science / Industrial Computing

National University of Malaysia
01.2020

Master of Science - Computer Science / Software Architecture

Multimedia University
01.2011

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering

Iran
Tehran
01.2008

Languages

Persian
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Intermediate (B1)
Arabic
Intermediate (B1)
Japanese
Elementary (A2)
Malay
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Gig Academic Lecturer

National University of Malaysia
03.2025 - Current

Research Professor

Soonchunhyang University
08.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Manager

BitHolla
03.2021 - Current

Postdoctoral Researcher

UKM
01.2021 - 12.2023

Software Architect / Cloud Architect (AWS)

Online Exchange of Sharif University
01.2019 - 05.2019

Chief Information Security Consultant

Exir
05.2018 - 07.2020

Cybersecurity Specialist

UKM
01.2017 - 12.2018

IT Consultant

Persian Search Engine Yooz
02.2015 - 12.2016

IT Manager

Iran's National Elites Foundation
02.2015 - 02.2016

Research Engineer

Singapore Management University
08.2014 - 02.2015

Research Engineer

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
05.2014 - 08.2014

Application Development Analyst

SOFTOM, National University of Malaysia
02.2012 - 02.2013

Applications Consultant

Quintiq (Dutch Software Company)
01.2012 - 12.2013

Team Leader

BrightSoft
06.2009 - 06.2010

ERP Developer

Hardmetal Knives Sdn Bhd
12.2008 - 05.2009

Senior Web Developer

Magellan Software Company
03.2008 - 11.2008

Senior Developer

Tarh Gostar Beheshti
02.2007

Development Team Leader

Fara Farzin Rayane
02.2005 - 02.2006

UNIX System Administrator

AXA Insurance
01.2004 - 01.2005

Master of Science - Computer Science / Software Architecture

Multimedia University

Ph.D. - Computer Science / Industrial Computing

National University of Malaysia

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering

Iran

Academic Affiliations

  • Sharif University of Technology
  • Multimedia University
  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Singapore Management University
  • National University of Malaysia (UKM)
  • Soonchunhyang University, SCH South Korea

Teaching Courses

  • Compiler Design
  • Formal Methods in Software Engineering
  • Architecture of Large Software Systems
  • Software Requirements Engineering
  • Low-Level Design of Software
  • Software Quality Assurance and Testing
  • Software Project Management
  • Advanced Topics in Software Engineering and Software Architecture
  • Security of Computing
  • Component-Based Systems
  • Service-Oriented Architecture Using Web Services

Professional Courses And Workshops

  • Advanced Cybersecurity Course, Kaspersky, 2010-01-01 to 2010-05-31
  • AWS Architecture, AWS Academy, 2014-03-01 to 2014-06-30
  • SharePoint Architecture, Microsoft, 2015-01-01 to 2015-02-28
  • Software Architecture Security and Performance Analysis, 2019-02-24
  • Hacked from Above: How Drones Can Be Turned into Cyber Weapons, The Unmanned System World Congress (UWC), Coex-Seoul, 2025-07-11
  • 3-Minute Thesis Competition, 2018-02-22
  • Kaspersky IT Security Conference, Krakow, 2010-05-01
  • CSM-ACE, Cybersecurity Malaysia, 2012-11-01
  • ICEEI 2013 at UKM, 2013-06-01
  • 6th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference, 2012-12-01
  • 6th ITARC Malaysia, 2010-06-01
  • Green IT at Microsoft Malaysia, 2010-07-01
  • Kaspersky Security Workshop, 2010-11-01
  • ASP.NET Workshop at MMU, 2011-07-01
  • SAP Awareness Camp, 2011-03-01
  • Cloud Computing Talk at Microsoft, 2011-01-01
  • German Day by MMU and German Embassy, 2010-11-01
  • F-Secure Security Awareness, 2009-08-01

Achievements And Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Kaspersky International Cybercrime Conference, 2010-01-01
  • Asia Winner, IT Security Conference for Next Generation, 2010-12-01
  • Award by Iran’s National Elites Foundation, 2016-05-01
  • Three Minute Thesis Competition, Finalist, 2018-02-01

Research Interests

  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data
  • Deep Learning
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Formal Method Approaches
  • Process Mining
  • Biocomputing
  • Dynamic Software Architecture
  • Self-Healing Systems
  • Robotics
  • Social Networks
  • Quality Assurance
  • Data Science


Formal Method Tools

  • Petri Nets
  • Z
  • VDM
  • CSP
  • LOTOS
  • Π-calculus

Process Mining Tools

  • ProM
  • CPN Tools

BOOKS

  • Advancements in Vehicle Intrusion Detection Systems: Enhancing Cybersecurity in Intelligent Transportation, Mastering Intrusion Detection for Cybersecurity, 2025-01-01, 10.5772/intechopen.1008831,
  • Latest Advances and New Visions of Ontology in Information Science, 2023-01-01, 10.5772/intechopen.102276,

Publications


  • Adaptive RNN Hyperparameter Tuning for Optimized IDS Across Platforms, 2025-01-01,
  • Advancements in Vehicle Intrusion Detection Systems: Enhancing Cybersecurity in Intelligent Transportation, 2025-01-01, Threat Classification and Vulnerability Analysis on 5G Firmware Over-the-Air Updates for Mobile and Automotive Platforms, 2025-01-01,
  • Using 2d hénon map, cycling chaos and dna sequence for new secure color image encryption algorithm, 2024-01-01,
  • Security assessment of in-vehicle network intrusion detection in real-life scenarios, 2024-01-01,
  • LPMSAEF: Lightweight Process Mining-Based Software Architecture Evaluation Framework for Security and Performance Analysis, 2024-01-01,
  • Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Email Spam Classification Using TF-IDF and Word Embedding Techniques, 2024-01-01,
  • LEARNT: A Neural Machine Translation Framework for Accurate Binary Lifting to High-Level Representation, 2024-01-01,
  • Security Elements and Threat Analysis of 5G Mobile Network Based on 3GPP 5G NR Standard, 2024-01-01,
  • Cybersecurity in UAVs: An Intrusion Detection System Using UAVCAN and Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2024-01-01,
  • Security of 6G-enabled vehicle-to-everything communication in emerging federated learning and blockchain technologies, 2023-01-01,
  • CF-AIDS: comprehensive frequency-agnostic intrusion detection system on in-vehicle network, 2023-01-01,
  • GDP: Group-based differential privacy framework for secure process mining in the internet of medical things, 2023-01-01,
  • Process Mining Discovery Techniques for Software Architecture Lightweight Evaluation Framework, 2023-01-01,
  • Lightweight software architecture evaluation for industry: A comprehensive review, 2022-01-01,
  • Impact of cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) in healthcare sector, 2022-01-01,
  • Framework for parallel preprocessing of microarray data using hadoop, 2018-01-01,
  • Evaluation and extracting factual software architecture of distributed system by process mining techniques, 2017-01-01,
  • Detecting abnormal behavior in social network websites by using a process mining technique, 2014-01-01,
  • Heterogeneous hierarchical coloured Petri net software/hardware architectural view of embedded system based on system behaviours, 2013-01-01

Hobbies and Interests

  • Hiking
  • Swimming
  • Martial Arts
  • Rumi and Philosophy

References

  • Dr. Ho Chin Kuan, Dean of FIT, MMU, ckho@mmu.edu.my, +60-3-8312-5180
  • Prof. Kunikiho Hiraishi, JAIST, hira@jaist.ac.jp, +81 761 51 1281
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ravie Chandren a/l Muniyandi, UKM, ravie@ukm.edu.my, +60-3-8921-6715
  • Prof. Dr. Zarina Shukur, Cybersecurity, UKM, zarinashukur@ukm.edu.my, +60-3-8921-6729
  • Professor Kangbin Yim, Professor, Dept. of Information Security Engineering, SoonChunHyang (SCH) University, yim@sch.ac.kr, +821089589080
Mahdi Sahlabadi