Shahrooz Pouryousef

PhD Student
College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS)
University of Massachusetts Amherst

my first name at cs dot umass dot edu



Open for Postdoc / Research Scientist position from Spring 2024.



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About Me


I am a final year PhD student in College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst honored to work with Prof. Don Towsley. My research interests lie at the crossroads of theory and practice, with a focus on resource allocation in quantum and classical networks. Overall, I aim at making networks both more performant and easier to manage.

Prior to my PhD, I earned my master degree in computer science from UMass Amherst in 2019. I also earned a master degree in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2015.
To find out more about my work, check out my google scholar.

NEWS

  • [July 2023] Giving a Talk at 𝗟𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 (remote).
  • [July 2023] Our other paper was accepted to QCE 2023!.
  • [July 2023] Our qVPN paper was rejected from QCE 2023!.
  • [February 2023] Accepted Quantum Research Intern offer at Cisco Quantum Lab.
  • [January 2023] Awarded travel grant to attend NSDI 2023.
  • [January 2023] Serving as a Graduate Representative member at UMass CICS.
  • [September 2023] Giving a talk at UMAss on quantum networks for class CS453 Computer Networks .
  • [December 2022] Our paper was accepted to INFOCOMM 2023.
  • [September 2022] Serving as a Program Committee (PC) member at UMASS CICS PAST.
  • [Jun 2022] Serving as a Program Committee (PC) member of UMass CICS social committee.
  • [August 2021] Awarded travel grant to attend ACM SIGCOM 2021.
  • [June 2021] Serving as a Program Committee (PC) member of UMass CICS social committee 2021.
  • [February 2020] Our paper was accepted in NSDI 2020 .
  • [December 20, 2019] Our paper was accepted in PAMM 2020.
  • [Jun 20, 2019] Our paper was rejected from PETS 2020!.
  • [August 2018] Our Paper was accepted in IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE 2018.

Publications


  • Scaling Limits of Quantum Repeater Networks paper
  • Mahdi Chehimi, Shahrooz Pouryousef, Nitish K Panigrahy, Don Towsley, Walid Saad
    QCE 2023. Bellevue, Washington, USA (Sep 2023).

  • A Quantum Overlay Network for Efficient Entanglement Distribution paper
  • Shahrooz Pouryousef , Nitish K. Panigrahy, and Don Towsley.
    INFOCOM 2023. New York, USA (May 2023).

    Robust Path Selection in Software-defined WANs using Deep Reinforcement Learning paper
    Shahrooz Pouryousef , Lixin Gao, and Don Towsley.
    The Fifth International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN), INFOCOM 2023. New York, USA (May 2023).

    Tradeoff between Privacy and Utility for Location-based Recommendation Services paper
    Gao, Zhaoyu, Ahmad Sepahi, Shahrooz Pouryousef ,Lu Zhou, and Haojin Zhu.
    ICC 2022. Virtual (May 2022).

    Towards Logically Centralized Interdomain Routing paper
    Shahrooz Pouryousef , Lixin Gao, and Arun Venkataramani.
    USENIX NSDI 2020. Santa Clara, California, USA (February 2020).

    Extortion or Expansion? An investigation into the costs and consequences of ICANN's gTLD experiments. paper
    Shahrooz Pouryousef , Daniyal Dar, Suleman Ahmad, Phillipa Gill, and Rishab Nithyanand.
    PAM 2020,University of Oregon, USA (April 2020).

Teaching


  • [Fall 2023] Lecturer on Introduction to Modern Computing as a First Year Seminar.
  • [Spring 2023] Teaching Assistant CS453 Computer Networks course.

Services


  • Reviewer. IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN).