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Shahriyar Amini

Ph.D. Student

http://kettle.ubiq.cs.cmu.edu/~samini/

Shahriyar is a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. His research interests include computer systems in general with a particular focus on mobile and embedded computing. His research explores privacy and security aspects of location-based services and applications. He has built a number of mobile solutions targeting user privacy, mobile local search, and activity and healthy monitoring.

Publications

Trajectory-Aware Mobile Search Shahriyar Amini, A.J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Jaime Teevan, and Amy Karlson ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Short Paper
Expectation and Purpose: Understanding Users’ Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing Jialiu Lin, Shahriyar Amini, Jason Hong, Norman Sadeh, Janne Lindqvist, and Joy Zhang International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) Full Paper
Caché: Caching Location-Enhanced Content to Improve User Privacy Shahriyar Amini, Janne Lindqvist, Jason Hong, Jialiu Lin, Eran Toch, and Norman Sadeh Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Mobisys) Full Paper