Sara Abbaspour is a researcher and associated senior lecturer working in the Cyber-Physical Systems Analysis group at Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden.
She was a Post Doc researcher from 2018 until 2020 at Mälardalen University. She has completed her PhD and defended her PhD thesis entitled “Concurrency Bugs: Characterization, Debugging and Runtime Verification” and her Licentiate thesis entitled “Bugs and Debugging of Concurrent and Multicore Software” in 2018 and 2016 respectively.
She received a Master’s degree in Software Engineering at Faculty of Computer Science and Information at University of Malaya, Malaysia. The field of her research during the Master’s degree was Web Engineering. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Iran. Her research area was focused on Image Processing.
She also has work experience in various aspects of industrial environment such as Mobile Development Systems, Multimedia Technologies and eLearning application, RFID, Smart Cards Technologies, and Software System Testing.
Her main research interests include:
Enhancing Cybersecurity through Comprehensive Investigation of Data Flow-Based Attack Scenarios (Oct 2024) Sara Abbaspour, Shamoona Imtiaz, Alireza Dehlaghi Ghadim, Mikael Sjödin, Marjan Sirjani Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy (JCP)
A Systematic Approach Towards Enhancing Digital Privacy in Industrial Applications (Jun 2024) Sara Abbaspour 12th International Conference of Security, Privacy and Trust Management (SPTM)
CRYSTAL framework: Cybersecurity assurance for cyber-physical systems (Apr 2024) Fereidoun Moradi, Sara Abbaspour, Bahman Pourvatan , Zahra Moezkarimi, Marjan Sirjani Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP)
Tiny Twins for detecting cyber-attacks at runtime using concise Rebeca time transition (Feb 2024) Fereidoun Moradi, Bahman Pourvatan , Sara Abbaspour, Marjan Sirjani Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC 185)
SARAF: Searching for Adversarial Robust Activation Functions (Jun 2023) Maghsood Salimi, Mohammad Loni, Marjan Sirjani, Antonio Cicchetti, Sara Abbaspour The 6th International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications (ICMVA'2023)
Cyberattacks: Modeling, Analysis, and Mitigation (Sep 2022) Sara Abbaspour 6th International Conference on Computer, Software and Modeling (ICCSM)