Research Position at the Sharif Information Systems and Data Science Center
Project Description: Anomaly detection in time series on various datasets, including those related to autonomous vehicle batteries, predictive maintenance, and determining remaining useful life (RUL) upon anomaly detection in products, particularly electric vehicle batteries. The paper deadline for this project is by the end of February. The project also involves the use of federated learning algorithms to support multiple local devices in anomaly detection, RUL estimation, and predictive maintenance on each local device.
Technical Requirements: Two electrical or computer engineering students with strong skills in deep learning, robustness concepts, time series anomaly detection, federated learning algorithms, and a creative mindset, strong and clean implementation skills.
Benefits: Access to a new, well-equipped lab and Research under the supervision of three professors in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research Position at the Sharif Information Systems and Data Science Center
Project Description: Anomaly detection in time series on various datasets, including those related to autonomous vehicle batteries, predictive maintenance, and determining remaining useful life (RUL) upon anomaly detection in products, particularly electric vehicle batteries. The paper deadline for this project is by the end of February. The project also involves the use of federated learning algorithms to support multiple local devices in anomaly detection, RUL estimation, and predictive maintenance on each local device.
Technical Requirements: Two electrical or computer engineering students with strong skills in deep learning, robustness concepts, time series anomaly detection, federated learning algorithms, and a creative mindset, strong and clean implementation skills.
Benefits: Access to a new, well-equipped lab and Research under the supervision of three professors in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Telegram and Signal Havens for Right-Wing Extremists
Since the violent storming of Capitol Hill and subsequent ban of former U.S. President Donald Trump from Facebook and Twitter, the removal of Parler from Amazon’s servers, and the de-platforming of incendiary right-wing content, messaging services Telegram and Signal have seen a deluge of new users. In January alone, Telegram reported 90 million new accounts. Its founder, Pavel Durov, described this as “the largest digital migration in human history.” Signal reportedly doubled its user base to 40 million people and became the most downloaded app in 70 countries. The two services rely on encryption to protect the privacy of user communication, which has made them popular with protesters seeking to conceal their identities against repressive governments in places like Belarus, Hong Kong, and Iran. But the same encryption technology has also made them a favored communication tool for criminals and terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
In many cases, the content resembled that of the marketplaces found on the dark web, a group of hidden websites that are popular among hackers and accessed using specific anonymising software.“We have recently been witnessing a 100 per cent-plus rise in Telegram usage by cybercriminals,” said Tal Samra, cyber threat analyst at Cyberint.The rise in nefarious activity comes as users flocked to the encrypted chat app earlier this year after changes to the privacy policy of Facebook-owned rival WhatsApp prompted many to seek out alternatives.RIML Lab from br
