Mohamed Ali Kaafar (alias Dali)

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Mohamed Ali (Dali) Kaafar
INRIA Rhone-Alpes,

France

email: kaafar AT inrialpes.fr

Research Projects

ANA

Autonomous Network Architecture

OneLab

Open Networking Laboratory

OSCAR
OSCAR

Anomaly detection in overlay networks

MUSE

Multi Service Access Everywhere

Network of Excellence in
Emerging Networking
Experiments and Technologies


I am a permanent research scientist at INRIA Grenoble (Rhone-Alpes) and member of the Planete project team. I got my PhD at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. Here you can find information about me and my research activities.
We got two papers in ACM SIGCOMM WOSN 2012. Congrats to Beri and Terence. "Betrayed by your Ads!..." will be presented in PETS 2012. Our paper "I know who you will meet this evening!..." has been accepted in WoWMoM2012 ! Our paper "You are What you Like!:..." has been accepted in NDSS 2012 ! Our paper on Ephemeral Publishing has been presented at ICNP 2011. Project: http://planete.inrialpes.fr/projects/ephemeral-publication/ "IP Geolocation Databases: Unreliable?", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review April 2011. How unique are your usernames? Papers: "How Unique and Traceable are Usernames". Accepted in the 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2011) Best Student Paper Award Press:New scientist, Mit Tech Review Project: http://planete.inrialpes.fr/projects/how-unique-are-your-usernames/ One bad apple spoils the Bunch: Trace and Profile Tor Users exploiting P2P apps. Usenix LEET'11. BitTorrent Over Tor not really anonymous anyway! Papers: Presented In ACM Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, HotPETS, Berlin, July 2010. ACM. poster in the USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'10) INRIA Technical Report. Press: Slashdot story, Tor Project Blog, lemonde(French), CNIS magazine Project: Anonymizing Networks.
Research Interests : certainly among others... need more time to fix that! Online Privacy Network Security and Anomaly detection Internet Measurements Design and Implementation of robust communication protocols