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Imad M. Abbadi

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Dr Imad M. Abbadi
Research Assistant

Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

My research interest is in the area of Trustworthy Cloud, Enterprise Rights Management, Organizational Security, and Trusted Computing.

Biography

Dr. Imad Abbadi B.Sc. (Hons), Pg.D., M.Sc. (distinction), Ph.D. I finished my MPhil/Ph.D. in Information Security, from Royal Holloway - University of London (2008) in the area of digital rights management. Prior joining Oxford in Oct 2010 I was engaged in various senior roles at a community Cloud provider. I am currently leading the role of Oxford University in TClouds project aiming to establish trustworthy Clouds. I am also leading the development and teaching of the newly proposed MSc course in Cloud security.

I have more than 15 years of industrial experience at various senior roles in Information Technology leading staff and projects to achieve goals. My experience covers almost all technologies behind today’s Cloud infrastructure. I have extensive experience in architecting, deploying and managing highly available, scalable, reliable, and resilient solutions. Moreover, I have in depth knowledge in information security, risk analysis and management, multi-tier web application deployment, UNIX operating system, and database management system.

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Clouds Trust Anchors

Imad M. Abbadi

In The 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust‚ Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom−11) (to appear). IEEE. June, 2012.

TClouds: Privacy and Resilience for Internet−scale Critical Infrastructures

Alysson Bessani‚ Imad M. Abbadi‚ Sven Bugiel‚ Emanuele Cesena‚ Mina Deng‚ Michael Gr�ne‚ Ninja Marnau‚ Stefan N�rnberger‚ Marcelo Pasin and Norbert Schirmer

In Dana Petcu and JoseLuis Vasquez Poletti, editors, European Research Activities in Cloud Computing. Chapter 6. Pages 160–186. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. March, 2012.

Middleware Services at Cloud Virtual Layer

Imad M. Abbadi

In DSOC 2011: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Dependable Service−Oriented and Cloud computing . IEEE Computer Society. August, 2011.

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