د. باسل بن صالح العمير Research Assistant Professor

 Basel Alomair joined the Computer Research Institute (CRI) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in 2011. His doctoral dissertation work was in the area of securing wireless and computer networks. His main research interests are Information Security, Wireless Security, and Applied Cryptography. In particular, he is interested in the design of computationally-efficient and resource-efficient algorithms and protocols that meet the demand of today's communication networks.

His PhD dissertation was recognized by the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing (TC-FTC) and the IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (WG 10.4) through the 2010 IEEE/IFIP William C. Carter Award. He is also the recipient of the 2011 UWEE Outstanding Research Award, and the University of Washington's Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (UW CIAC) Disdtinguished Dissertation Award.

Dissertation:

• Towards Authenticated and Private Computer and Wireless Communications.

Education:

• University of Washington-Seattle, PhD in Electrical Engineering.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, MS in Computer Science.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• King Saud University-Riyadh, BS in Electrical Engineering.

Honors:

• The 2012 UW CIAC Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Awarded by the University of Washington's Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity for fundamental contributions in the field of Radio Frequency Identification.

• The 2011 UW EE Outstanding Research Award.

The award is presented annually to recognize an individual (a research scientist, a postdoctoral fellow, or a graduate student) who demonstrated an outstanding contribution to research in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.

• The 2010 IEEE/IFIP William C. Carter Award.

The William C. Carter Award has been presented annually since 1997 to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research. The award is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing (TC-FTC) and the IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (WG 10.4).

Journal Publications:

• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, Efficient Authentication for Mobile and Pervasive Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), to appear.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, E-MACs: Towards More Secure and More Efficient Constructions of Secure Channels, IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC), to appear.
• Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, Jorge Cuellar, and Radha Poovendran, Towards a Statistical Framework for Source Anonymity in Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), to appear.
• Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, Jorge Cuellar, and Radha Poovendran, Scalable RFID Systems: A Privacy-Preserving Protocol with Constant-Time Identification, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 1536-1550, 2012.
• Basel Alomair, Loukas Lazos, and Radha Poovendran, Securing Low-Cost RFID Systems: an Unconditionally Secure Approach, Journal of Computer Security (JCS), Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 229-256, 2011.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, Privacy versus Scalability in Radio Frequency Identification Systems, Journal of Computer Communications (COMCOM), Volume 33, Issue 18, Pages 2155-2163, 2010.
• Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, and Radha Poovendran, The Power of Primes: Security of Authentication Based on a Universal Hash-Function Family, Journal of Mathematical Cryptology (JMC), Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 121-148, 2010.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, Information Theoretically Secure Encryption with Almost Free Authentication, Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Volume 15, Issue 15, pages 2937-2956, 2009.

Conference Publications:

• Andrew Clark, Basel Alomair, Linda Bushnell, and Radha Poovendran, Leader Selection in Multi-Agent Systems for Smooth Convergence via Fast Mixing, to appear in the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control-CDC’12, December 2012.
• Chouchang Yang, Basel Alomair, and Radha Poovendran, Multipath Flow Allocation in Anonymous Wireless Networks with Dependent Sources, appeared in the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing-Allerton’12, October 2012.
• Chouchang Yang, Basel Alomair, and Radha Poovendran, Optimized Flow Allocation for Anonymous Communication in Multipath Wireless Networks, appeared in the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory-ISIT'12, July 2012.
• Basel Alomair, Authenticated Encryption: How Reordering can Impact Performance, appeared in the 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security-ACNS'12, June 2012.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, Efficient Authentication for Mobile and Pervasive Computing, appeared in the 12th International Conference on Information and Communications Security-ICICS'10, December 2010.
• Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, Jorge Cuellar, and Radha Poovendran, Statistical Framework for Source Anonymity in Sensor Networks, appeared in the 53rd IEEE Global Communications Conference-GLOBECOM'10, December 2010.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, E-MACs: Towards More Secure and More Efficient Constructions of Secure Channels, appeared in the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology-ICISC'10, December 2010.
• Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, Jorge Cuellar, and Radha Poovendran, On Source Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks, appeared in the 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-DSN'10, June 2010. Abstract.
• Basel Alomair, Andrew Clark, Jorge Cuellar, and Radha Poovendran, Scalable RFID Systems: a Privacy-Preserving Protocol with Constant-Time Identification, appeared in the 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-DSN'10, June 2010. Award winning paper.
• Basel Alomair, Loukas Lazos, and Radha Poovendran, Securing Low-Cost RFID Systems: an Unconditionally Secure Approach, appeared in the 6th Workshop on RFID Security-RFIDsec'10, February 2010. One of the two best papers.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, Unconditionally Secure Authenticated Encryption with Shorter Keys, appeared in the 7th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems-WOSIS'09, May 2009. Among the best papers.
• Basel Alomair, Krishna Sampigethaya, Andrew Clark, and Radha Poovendran, Towards Trustworthy Cryptographic Protection of Airplane Information Assets, appeared in the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, April 2009.
• Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran, On the Authentication of RFID Systems with Bitwise Operations, appeared in the 2nd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security-NTMS'08, November 2008.
• Basel Alomair, Krishna Sampigethaya, and Radha Poovendran, Efficient Generic Forward-Secure Signatures and Proxy Signatures, appeared in the 5th European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop-EuroPKI'08, June 2008.
• Basel Alomair, Loukas Lazos, and Radha Poovendran, Passive Attacks on a Class of Authentication Protocols for RFID, appeared in the 10th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology-ICISC'07, November 2007.

Useful Links:

• Crypto and Security Conferences Ranking.
• Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic.
• Crypto and computer security call for papers from the UCL Crypto group.
• RFID Security and Privacy lounge
• Information security database from the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA)