Sajad Shirali-Shahreza
Assistant Professor · Computer Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN
I am Sajad-Shirali Shahreza. I started working as an assistant professor at Software Engineering group of the Department of Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN. My main research domain is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and my goal is to design systems that can be used by everyone (i.e., Usability 4 All). Before that I worked as an Software Engineer at Google Canada.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017 from Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. My PhD supervisors were Prof. Yashar Ganjali and Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan. My PhD thesis title is FleXight: Flexible Information Channel for Software-Defined Networking. After completing my PhD, I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, under supervision of Prof. Gerald Penn.
I earned my MSc in Software Engineering from Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology in September 2007. My MS project title is "JABER, A Persian Human Interactive Proof System" and my supervisor was Prof. Movaghar. You can find more abuot this projcet on its site: www.hip.ir. After that, I was a Ph.D candidate in Software Engineering at Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, from September 2007 till May 2010. My supervisor was Dr. Abolhassani. I received my Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Software Engineering (Computer Engineering) from Computer Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in 2006. My BS project was "Persian Printed Text Page Segmentation" which was done under supervision of Dr. Manzuri.
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Speech Communications
- Computer Networks
Selected publications
All publications →Better Naturalness Evaluation of TTS Systems
S. Shirali-Shahreza, G. Penn
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 7:296–304, 2026
Delayed Installation and Expedited Eviction: An Alternative Approach to Reduce Flow Table Occupancy in SDN Switches
S. Shirali-Shahreza, Y. Ganjali
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 26(4):1547–1561, 2018
Protecting Home User Devices with an SDN-Based Firewall
S. Shirali-Shahreza, Y. Ganjali
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 64(1):92–100, 2018
MOS Naturalness and the Quest for Human-Like Speech
S. Shirali-Shahreza, G. Penn
2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2018), pages 346–352, 2018
Efficient Implementation of Security Applications in OpenFlow Controller with FleXam
S. Shirali-Shahreza, Y. Ganjali
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Annual Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI 2013), pages 49–54, 2013
FleXam: Flexible Sampling Extension for Monitoring and Security Applications in OpenFlow
S. Shirali-Shahreza, Y. Ganjali
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN 2013), at ACM SIGCOMM 2013, pages 167–168, 2013
SeeSay and HearSay CAPTCHAs for Mobile Interaction
S. Shirali-Shahreza, G. Penn, R. Balakrishnan, Y. Ganjali
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), pages 2147–2156, 2013
High Capacity Error Free Wavelet Domain Speech Steganography
S. Shirali-Shahreza, M. T. Manzuri-Shalmani
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), pages 1729–1732, 2008