People.

The students I advise, and the advisors and collaborators I am lucky to work with. If you want to join this page, my inbox has a soft spot for hard problems: h.pasandi@berkeley.edu.

01 · students and mentees

The students I advise

Mahsa Tavasoli

Ph.D. student, North Carolina A&T (committee member)

Lead author, rural connected-vehicle communication survey, IEEE Access 2025; lead author, CAN intrusion detection for rural CAVs, ACM CoNEXT '25 Student Workshop.

Radwan Rouzky

Ph.D. student, North Carolina A&T

Lead author, smart-farming data-governance review, Information Processing in Agriculture, 2026.

Mohammad Sepahi

Rivian, formerly Old Dominion University (Master's thesis mentor)

Coauthor, VIN2VICTIM, USENIX VehicleSec '26.

Nourchene (Noor) Bargaoui

Co-advised with Prof. Tamer Nadeem

02 · advisors and collaborators

The people this work is built with

Prof. Ion Stoica

Professor of EECS

UC Berkeley

Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy

Professor of CS

UC Berkeley

Prof. Scott Shenker

Professor of EECS

UC Berkeley

Prof. Tamer Nadeem

Professor of CS (PhD Advisor)

VCU

Prof. Gil Zussman

Kenneth Brayer Professor

Columbia University

Dr. Juan A. Fraire

Researcher, Agora Team

INRIA Lyon

Prof. Hervé Rivano

University Professor

INSA Lyon / INRIA

Prof. Franck Rousseau

Associate Professor

Univ. Grenoble Alpes

Prof. Haniyeh B. Pasandi

Associate Professor

Prof. Mohsen Lesani

Associate Professor

UC Santa Cruz

Prof. Zhaowei Tan

Assistant Professor

UC Riverside

Prof. Tianyin Xu

Associate Professor

UIUC

Farideh Parastar

Collaborator, MSc