Assistant Professor, School of Computing
| sghavamnia@uconn.edu | |
| Mailing Address | University of Connecticut 371 Fairfield Way, Unit 4155 Storrs, CT 06269-4155 |
| Campus | Storrs |
| Link | Research Website |
Brief Bio
My name is Seyedhamed (Hamed) Ghavamnia (written as سید حامد قوام نیا in Persian) and I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing at University of Connecticut.
I completed my PhD at the Computer Science Department of Stony Brook University under the supervision of my advisor, Prof. Michalis Polychronakis where I worked on software security and more specifically on attack surface reduction. Prior to that I was the team lead for the security software development team in Irisa. I obtained my B.E. in Software Engineering from University of Isfahan and my M.S. in Computer Engineering with concentration on Network Security from Sharif University of Technology. My Master’s thesis was about traffic analysis.
- System/Software Security
- Attack Surface Reduction through Program Analysis
- Memory Safe Languages
- LeakLess: Selective Data Protection against Memory Leakage Attacks for Serverless Platforms
Maryam Rostamipoor, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2025, San Diego, CA. - C2C: Fine-grained Configuration-driven System Call Filtering
Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). November 2022, Los Angeles, LA. - Decap: Deprivileging Programs by Reducing Their Capabilities
Md Mehedi Hasan, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, Defenses (RAID 2022). October 2022, Limassol, Cyprus. - Confine: Automated System Call Policy Generation for Container Attack Surface Reduction
Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, Azzedine Benameur, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, Defenses (RAID 2020). October 2020, San Sebastian, Spain. - Temporal System Call Specialization for Attack Surface Reduction
Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Tapti Palit, Shachee Mishra, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium. August 2020, Boston, MA - xMP: Selective Memory Protection for Kernel and User Space
Sergej Proskurin, Marius Momeu, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P). May 2020, San Francisco, CA. - Classifying IDS Alerts Automatically for Use in Correlation Systems
Mohammadhosein MirshahJafari, Hamed Ghavamnia, Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC)
2014 11th International ISC Conference, Tehran, Iran
Journal Publications
- Confine: Fine-grained System Call Filtering for Container Attack Surface Reduction
Maryam Rostamipoor, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, and Michalis Polychronakis. In Computers & Security (to appear). 2023.