Maliheh Shirvanian

Staff Research Scientist

Focus areas: Authentication, System Security, User-Centered Security

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Biography

Dr. Maliheh Shirvanian joined Visa Research as a Staff Research Scientist in September 2018. Maliheh received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2019. She received her M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University and University of Tehran in 2006 and 2003, respectively. Prior to joining Visa, Maliheh was a Graduate Intern at VERISIGN, a Lecturer at Islamic Azad University, and over ten years of hands-on experience managing and engineering networking and security projects.

As a member of the Security team, her research interests are in authentication, system security and user-centered security. She is the inventor of five patents and has published 16 papers in several international conferences and journals, including Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Public-Key Cryptography (PKC) and others. 

Conferences

  • Satvat, K., Shirvanian, M., Hosseini, M., & Saxena, N. (2020). CRAPE: A Privacy-Enhanced Crash Reporting System. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy.
  • Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2019). Stethoscope: Crypto Phones with Transparent & Robust Fingerprint Comparisons using Inter Text-Speech Transformations. International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust.
  • Shirvanian, M., Vo, S., & Saxena, N. (2019). Quantifying the Breakability of Voice Assistants. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication.
  • Shirvanian, M., Saxena, N., Jarecki, S., & Krawczyk, H. (2019). A Password Store that Perfectly Hides Passwords from Itself: Design and Usability. IEEE TDSC Journal.
  • Shirvanian, M., Saxena, N., & Mukhopadhyay, D. (2018). Short voice imitation man-in-the-middle attacks on Crypto Phones: Defeating humans and machines. Journal of Computer Security, 26(3), 311–333.
  • Jarecki, S., Krawczyk, H., Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2018). Two-Factor Authentication with End-to-End Password Security. Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2018, 431–461.
  • Shirvanian, M., Saxena, N., & George, J. J. (2017). On the Pitfalls of End-to-End Encrypted Communications: A Study of Remote Key-Fingerprint Verification. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.
  • Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2017). CCCP: Closed Caption Crypto Phones to Resist MITM Attacks, Human Errors and Click-through. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
  • Shirvanian, M., Jareckiy, S., Krawczykz, H., & Saxena, N. (2017). SPHINX: A Password Store that Perfectly Hides Passwords from Itself. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
  • Shrestha, B., Shirvanian, M., Shrestha, P., & Saxena, N. (2016). The Sounds of the Phones: Dangers of Zero-Effort Second Factor Login based on Ambient Audio. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
  • Jarecki, S., Krawczyk, H., Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2016). Device-Enhanced Password Protocols with Optimal Online-Offline Protection. ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
  • Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2015). On the Security and Usability of Crypto Phones. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. 
  • Mukhopadhyay, D., Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2015). All Your Voices are Belong to Us: Stealing Voices to Fool Humans and Machines. The European Symposium on. Research in Computer Security, 2015, 599–621.
  • Shirvanian, M., & Saxena, N. (2014). Wiretapping via Mimicry: Short Voice Imitation Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Crypto Phones. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 
  • Shirvanian, M., Jarecki, S., Saxena, N., & Nathan, N. (2014). Two-Factor Authentication Resilient to Server Compromise Using Mix-Bandwidth Devices. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
  • Shirvanian, M., & Azar, F. T. (2008). Adaptive SVD-based digital image watermarking. International Workshop on Digital Watermarking.

Patents

  • Shirvanian, M., & Agrawal, S. (2019). Second Factor for Secure Password Authentication. U.S. Patent No. 16/567,750. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Shirvanian, M., & Arora, S. (2019). Delegated Biometric Authentication. U.S. Patent No. 16/589,609. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Shirvanian, M., Salajegheh, M., Arora, S. & Zhang, Y. (2019). Acoustic Signatures for Voice-enabled Computer. U.S. Patent No. 16/723,887. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Saxena, N., Krawcyzk, H., Jarecki, S., & Shirvanian, M. (2016). Device-enhanced Password Protocols with Optimal Offline-online Protection and Application. U.S. Patent No. 62/421,660. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 
  • Mohaisen, A., Shirvanian, M., Murray, G. C. (2015). Access control for named domain networking. U.S. Patent No. 14/868,594. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

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