About me

My research interests include mobile computing and security and privacy. My primary research centers on the advancement of the security, privacy and usability of mobile computing technologies. In today’s world, where modern devices are ubiquitous and technology is deeply integrated into various aspects of our daily lives, there is an ongoing effort to develop advanced systems that enrich user experiences while also preserving their security and privacy.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University, where I was advised by Professor Z. Berkay Celik at the PurSec Lab. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Systems Engineering from Alexandria University. I am also an alum of the Wireless Research Center in Egypt, where I was mentored by Professor Moustafa Youssef.

Publications

  • ATTention Please! An investigation of the App Tracking Transparency Permission.
    Reham Mohamed, Arjun Arunasalam, Habiba Farrukh, Jason Tong, Antonio Bianchi, and Z. Berkay Celik
    Usenix Security Symposium 2024 [PDF]

  • LocIn: Inferring Semantic Location from Spatial Maps in Mixed Reality.
    Habiba Farrukh, Reham Mohamed, Aniket Nare, Antonio Bianchi, and Z. Berkay Celik
    Usenix Security Symposium 2023 [PDF]

  • iStelan: Disclosing Sensitive User Information by Mobile Magnetometer from Finger Touches
    Reham Mohamed, Habiba Farrukh, He Wang, Yidong Lu, Z. Berkay Celik
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS) 2023 [PDF]

  • FaceRevelio: A Face Liveness Detection System for Smartphones with a Single Front Camera
    Habiba Farrukh, Reham Mohamed Aburas, Siyuan Cao, He Wang
    26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), 2020 [PDF]

  • Heartsense: Ubiquitous accurate multi-modal fusion-based heart rate estimation using smartphones
    Reham Mohamed and Moustafa Youssef
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp), 2017

  • Accurate Real-time Map Matching for Challenging Environments
    Reham Mohamed, Heba Aly and Moustafa Youssef
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016

  • SemanticSLAM: Using environment landmarks for unsupervised indoor localization
    Heba Abdelnasser*, Reham Mohamed*, Ahmed Elgohary, Moustafa Alzantot, and Moustafa Youssef
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2015

  • Accurate and efficient map matching for challenging environments
    Reham Mohamed, Heba Aly and Moustafa Youssef
    ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2014

  • Al-Bayan: An Arabic Question Answering System for the Holy Quran
    Heba Abdelnasser*, Maha Ragab*, Reham Mohamed*, Alaa Mohamed*, Bassant Farouk*, Nagwa El-Makky, Marwan Torki
    EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), 2014 [PDF][Data]

  • MonoPHY: Mono-stream-based device-free WLAN localization via physical layer information
    Heba Abdelnasser*, Reham Mohamed*, Ibrahim Sabek and Moustafa Youssef
    IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC ‘13)