I am a PhD student at DePaul, since Fall 2005.
My main research area is applications of Machine Learning in Network Security.
I finished my Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Alexandria University, Egypt in 2004 where
I have been awarded a graduate fellowship for academic excellence. Since then, I worked in the industry while holding a teaching position in the same university till I joined the Multimedia Networking lab at DePaul.
Projects:
PolicyGen: Synthetic access-control list policy generation.
FireCracker: Firewall policy discovery.
QoS Policy Analysis: Modeling and analysis of Quality-of-Service policies.
Taghrid Samak, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Hong Li, "QoS Policy Modeling for Conflict Analysis", The ninth International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2008), Palisades, NY, USA 2008. (Best Paper Award)
Taghrid Samak, Sahar Ghanem, and Mohamed A. Ismail, "On the Efficiency of using Space-Filling Curves in Network Traffic Representation", In the 11th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2008
(in conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2008), Phoenix AZ, USA
Taghrid Samak, Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer, "FireCracker: A Framework for Inferring Firewall Policy using Smart Probing", In the fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'07), Beijing, China, October 2007. [PDF]
Taghrid Samak, Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Mohamed Ismail, "A Novel Visualization Approach for Efficient Network-wide Traffic Monitoring". In the 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMon'07, In conjunction with IM 2007), Munich, Germany, May 2007.
Adel El-Atawy, Taghrid Samak, Zein Wali, Ehab Al-Shaer, Sheng Li, Frank Lin, and Christopher Pham, "An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement", The eighth International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2007), Bologna, Italy, 2007
Adel El-Atawy, Taghrid Samak, Ehab Al-Shaer and Hong Li, "On Using Online Traffic Statistical Matching for Optimizing Packet Filtering Performance", INFOCOM 2007.
Taghrid Samak, Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer, Hong Li, "Firewall Policy Reconstruction by Active Probing: An Attacker's View", NPSec 2006 (In conjunction with ICNP 2006, Nov'06, CA, Santa Barbara).[pdf]
Taghrid Samak, "Firewall Policy Reconstruction by Active Probing: An Attacker's View", Presented at 2nd Midwest Security Workshop (MSW) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sep 30 2006.
Taghrid Samak, Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer, "Using Space Filling Curves to Improve Large Scale Network Traffic Visualization", Poster at 1st MSW, DePaul University at Chicago, May 6 2006.
Adel El-Atawy, Taghrid Samak, Khalid Ibrahim, Hazem Hamed, Ehab Al-Shaer, "Intelligent Testing Framework for Network Security Devices", Poster at 1st MSW, DePaul University at Chicago, May 6 2006.
