Ali Akhavani
Research Assistant At Systems Security Lab (SecLab) at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAli Akhavani is a security researcher and PhD candidate at Northeastern University with a decade of hands-on experience building and protecting web-scale systems. He blends academic research in web security and privacy—focused on HTTP request smuggling, WAF bypass via automated fuzzing, and browser fingerprinting—with four years of industry DevOps and software engineering work on high-throughput microservice platforms. At TAPSI he helped scale ride volume 4x, architect containerized deployments, and led incident response, and he now applies those skills to detecting emerging consumer internet threats at Upstream Labs. His research projects, including PriveShield and Browserprint, emphasize practical defenses that reduce tracking and harden browsers, reflecting a pragmatic approach to privacy. Comfortable across full-stack engineering, cloud infrastructure, and offensive research, he combines startup grit (co‑founder experience) with rigorous, reproducible research methods.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of TehranDiploma Mathematics and Physics, Diploma Mathematics and Physics at Alavi High School
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
fingerprinting10
stream9
browser8
testing7
nodejs7
grammar7
privacy7
streaming7
streamer7
mutation6
js6
amazon-waf6
amazon-ec26
sailsjs6
bmp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sa-akhavani/browserprint
Nov 2019 - Nov 2021
An Analysis of the Impact of Browser Features on Fingerprintability and Web Privacy
Contributions:191 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years
browserfingerprintingprivacy
sa-akhavani/i3lock-script
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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