Saeid Tizpaz-Niari is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.
He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado Boulder.
His research interests are at the intersection of SE, AI, and cybersecurity.
His research group builds debugging tools and techniques for safety-critical and socio-critical problems.
His findings help discover multiple performance bugs in popular ML libraries, fairness bugs in the training process of ML algorithms, and timing side-channel vulnerabilities in critical Java libraries.
Tizpaz-Niari has received two NSF awards from Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) and Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) programs,
a Gold Research Award from the ECEE department at CU Boulder, and the second prize for his submission to the First Microsoft Open-Source Challenge.
Prior to his PhD, he obtained an MS degree from CE department at Sharif University
of Technology in 2013 and BS degree (with first-class honor) from ECE department of Tabriz University
in 2011.