Publications

 You can also find the list of my publications at Google Scholar and DBLP. 

Technical Report:

[T1] Jeff Burdges, Alfonso Cevallos, Peter Czaban, Rob Habermeier, Handan Kılınç Alper, Fabio Lama, Ximin Luo, Syed Hosseini, Fatemeh Shirazi, Alistair Stewart, Gavin Wood (alphabetic order):

Overview of Polkadot and its Design Considerations,

41 pages, technical report, 02 June 2020. 


[T2]  Oana Ciobotaru, Fatemeh Shirazi, Alistair Stewart, Sergey Vasilyev,

Accountable Light Client Systems for PoS Blockchains

eprint paper, September 2022.


[T3] Jeff Burdges, Alfonso Cevallos , Handan Kılınc ̧ Alper , Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Fatemeh Shirazi, Alistair Stewart,

Efficient Execution Auditing for Blockchains under Byzantine,

eprint paper, June 2024.


Refereed Journal Papers:

[J1] Iraklis Symeonidis, Gergely Biczok, Fatemeh Shirazi, Cristina Perez-Sola, Jessica Stoers, Bart Preneel:

Collateral Damage by Facebook Applications: a Comprehensive Study,

to appear in Elsevier Journal Computers & Security, 31 pages, 2018.

[J2] Fatemeh Shirazi, Milivoj Simeonovski, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Michael Backes, Claudia Diaz: 

A Survey on Routing in Anonymous Communication Protocols, 

ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 51, issue 3, article 51, 39 pages, May 2018.  


Refereed Conference / Workshop Papers:

[R1] Alex Sanchez-Keller, Alistair Stewart, Fatemeh Shirazi

Bridging Sapling: Private Cross-Chain Transfers

IEEE ICBC, Shanghai, May 2022. 

[R2] Iraklis Symeonidis, Fatemeh Shirazi, Gergely Biczok, Cristina Perez-Sola, Bart Preneel:

Collateral Damage of Facebook Apps: Friends, Providers, and Privacy Interdependence,

in Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC'16), pages 194-208, the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series, volume 471, Springer, Ghent, Belgium, May/June 2016.

[R3] Fatemeh Shirazi, Claudia Diaz, Joss Wright:

Towards Measuring Resilience in Anonymous Communication Networks (short paper),

in Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'15), pages 95-99, ACM, Denver, Colorado, USA, October 2015.

[R4] Fatemeh Shirazi, Matthias Goehring, Claudia Diaz:

Tor Experimentation Tools,

in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'15), pages 206 - 213, IEEE, co-located with the 36th symposium on Security and Privacy, San Jose, California, May 2015.

[R5] Fatemeh Shirazi and Melanie Volkamer:

What Deters Jane from Preventing Identification and Tracking on the Web?

In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'14), pages 107-116, ACM, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November 2014.

[R6] Bernd Conrad and Fatemeh Shirazi: 

Analyzing the Effectiveness of DoS Attacks on Tor (fast abstract), 

in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN'14), 4 pages, ACM, Glasgow, UK, September 2014. 

[R7] Bernd Conrad and Fatemeh Shirazi:

A Survey on Tor and I2P,

in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP'14), pages 22-28, IARIA, Paris, France, July 2014.

[R8] Fatemeh Shirazi, Stephan Neumann, Ines Ciolacu, Melanie Volkamer:

Robust electronic voting: Introducing robustness in Civitas,

in Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Requirements Engineering for Electronic Voting Systems (REVOTE'11), pages 47 -55, IEEE, August 2011.


Book/ Book Chapters/Magazine Article/Poster:

Book:

[B1] J. Buchmann, R. Capurro, M. Löw, G. Müller, A. Pretschner, A. Roßnagel, M. Waidner, K. Eiermann, M. Eldred, F. Kelbert, D. Nagel, M. Nebel, C. Ochs, M. Peters, P. Richter, F. Shirazi, H. Simo (alphabetic order): 

Internet Privacy: Options for adequate realization,

edited by Johannes Buchmann, 112 pages, Springer Vieweg, 2013 edition, June 2013.


Book Chapter:

[C1] Johannes Buchmann, Maxi Nebel, Alexander Rossnagel, Fatemeh Shirazi, Hervais Simo, Michael Waidner (alphabetic order):

Personal Information Dashboard: Putting the Individual Back in Control,

chapter in Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2013, edited by M. Hildebrandt et al., pages 139-164, ISO Press, September 2013.

[C2] Florian Kelbert, Fatemeh Shirazi, Hervais Simo, Tobias Wüchner, Johannes Buchmann, Alexander Pretschner, Michael Waidner (junior researcher/supervisors in alphabetic order):

State of Online Privacy: A Technical Perspective,

chapter in "Internet Privacy. Eine multidisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme/ A multidisciplinary analysis", acatech STUDIE, edited by Johannes Buchmann, pages 189-279, Springer Verlag Heidelberg, September 2012.


Magazine Article: 

[M1] Fatemeh Shirazi: 

Blockchain Interoperability and Outlook for 2021

Outlook 2021, Bitcoin Suisse Magazine, January 2021. 


Poster:

[P1] Fatemeh Shirazi: 

Oana Ciobotaru, Fatemeh Shirazi, Alistair Stewart, Sergey Vasylev: 

Accountable Light Clients for PoS Blockchains

Poster at Financial Cryptography and Information Security conference, May 2022. 


Blog Posts:

[W1] Fatemeh Shirazi

Elastic Scaling

Polkadot Forum, March 2024. 

[W2] Fatemeh Shirazi

No privacy solution is an island

in progress

[W3] Fatemeh Shirazi, Logan Saether, Alistair Stewart, Rob Habermeier, Gavin Wood

Polkadot’s Messaging Scheme,

Medium, Web3 Foundation account, 14/01/2020. 

[W4] Fatemeh Shirazi, Jeffrey Burdges, Edward Thomson, and Ignasio Albero:

Messaging Protocol Workshop Outcomes -  An initiative to design and implement a privacy-preserving communication system for decentralized applications

Medium, Web3 Foundation/Status/Validity Labs meetup review, 21/02/2019.

[W5] Elena Andreeva and Fatemeh Shirazi:

Novel Approaches for Anonymous Communication

COSIC blog posts, 24/11/2017.


Theses:

Ph.D. thesis:

Investigating and Improving Anonymous Communication Systems,

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 

supervisor: Prof. dr. Claudia Diaz, co-supervisor: Dr. Markulf Kohlweiss,

240 pages, 5 July 2018.

Master thesis:

Formal Security Policies for Separation,

Universität des Saarlandes,

supervisor: PD Dr. Werner Stephan, advisor: Bruno Langenstein,

88 pages, 28 August 2011.