Security
Systems Security
Trusted hardware, storage systems, and secure system design.
Computer Science PhD Student
Amir Farid
Security, privacy, and safety for connected systems
I am Amir Farid, a Computer Science PhD student at Michigan Technological University. My research focuses on security, privacy, and safety for connected systems, especially IoT, embedded, edge, and distributed environments.
My work sits at the intersection of systems security, trusted hardware, distributed storage, file-system and flash-storage behavior, and emerging AI/ML-assisted methods for detecting and mitigating malicious behavior in real-world connected infrastructures.
Current Research Focus
A compact view of the systems and security problems I am currently organizing my work around.
Storage
Distributed Storage
Decentralized storage, erasure/network coding, audit and repair mechanisms.
Safety
AI/ML-Assisted Security
LLM-assisted detection, prompt-injection/jailbreak analysis, and safety for connected systems.
Featured Projects
Selected research and teaching infrastructure projects.
Submitted
HiDCE
Trusted-hardware-assisted decentralized storage with erasure coding, self-audit, and self-repair mechanisms.
Role: Researcher
Technologies: C/C++, Intel SGX, erasure coding, distributed storage, cryptographic verification
Completed prototype
K-12 LLM Security Hackathon Infrastructure
Infrastructure and challenge design for teaching jailbreaks, prompt injection, and LLM security concepts to K-12 students.
Role: Infrastructure and challenge designer
Technologies: Python, Ollama, HAProxy, Raspberry Pi, prompt-injection challenges
In progress
NC-DCS
Audit-less file-system-friendly decentralized cloud storage using network coding and FTL-assisted authenticated write classification.
Role: Researcher
Technologies: C/C++, OpenNFM, FTL, network coding, storage security
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