Education

• PhD (Software, Systems and Computing), 2019
• Universidad Politecnia de Madrid (UPM) Madrid (Spain)
• Thesis: Lineage Inference of Packed Malware using Binary Code Similarity
• MS (Information Technology), 2010
• NUST, Islamabad (Pakistan)
• Thesis: Analysis of P2P Traffic on Anomaly Detection Systems

• BS (Computer Science), 2007
• Virtual University (Pakistan)

Publications

• [COSE 2018] “Malware Lineage in the Wild”
  Irfan Ul Haq, Sergio Chica, Juan Caballero, Somesh Jha
  In: Computers & Security Journal, Volume 78, September 2018.

• [WODA 2015] “Ayudante: Identifying Undesired Variable Interactions”
  Irfan Ul Haq, Juan Caballero, and Michael D. Ernst
  In: 13th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis, October 26, 2015.
  Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

• [RAID 2010] “What is the Impact of P2P Traffic on Anomaly Detection?”
  Irfan Ul Haq, Sardar Ali, Hassan Khan, and Syed Ali Khayam
  In: 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, September 15-17, 2010.
  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  Acceptance Rate: 23.1%

• [CCR 2010] “On Mitigating Sampling-Induced Accuracy Loss in Traffic Anomaly Detection Systems”
  Sardar Ali, Irfan Ul Haq, Sajjad Rizvi, Naurin Rasheed, Unum Sarfraz, Syed Ali Khayam, and Fauzan Mirza
  In: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 40 Issue 3, July 2010.
  ACM New York, NY, USA

Services:

• Reviewer:
• IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• Elsevier Computers and Security — Journal (COSE)
• International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
• Artifact Evaluation Committee Member:
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)