About Myself

• Name: Syed Zain Raza Rizvi (Zain)
• Email Address: szrrizvi AT ucalgary DOT ca
• Office: ICT 625
• Supervisor: Philip Fong
• For more information, consult my Curriculum Vitae.

News

• Launched Here At UCalgary, a podcast series focusing on students from the University of Calgary and learning about who they are.
• General Co-Chair for the Security Researchers and Industry Experts Talks (SecRETs 2019). October 18th, 2019.
• Received the University of Calgary Doctoral Scholarship for 2019-2020.
• Received the Computer Science Department Teaching Award (TA) for CPSC 233 - Fall 2013.
• Software Engineer Internship at Facebook. May - July 2019.
• Received the Blended Instructional Skills Workshop certificate from Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning. August 15 - 22, 2018.
• Received the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate (Doctoral) Scholarship for 2018-2019.
• General Co-Chair for the Security Researchers and Industry Experts Talks (SecRETs 2018). May 7th, 2018.
• "Efficient Authorization of Graph Database Queries in an Attribute-Supporting ReBAC Model" poster presentation at the Computer Science Showcase. April 10th, 2018.
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Publications

• Designing a Programming Bootcamp for Non-Software Engineers
  Mohammad Moshirpour, Robyn Paul, Zain Rizvi, and Hadi Hemmanti
  Proceedings 2019 Canadian Engineering Education Association.


• Efficient Authorization of Graph Database Queries in an Attribute-Supporting ReBAC Model

  Syed Zain R. Rizvi, Philip W. L. Fong
  CODASPY '18 Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2018
  Comment: 21% Acceptance Rate (23/110) + 12 Short Papers.


• Interoperability of Relationship- and Role-Based Access Control

  Syed Zain R. Rizvi, Philip W. L. Fong
  CODASPY '16 Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2016
  Comment: 19% Acceptance Rate (22/115)


• Relationship-Based Access Control for an Open-Source Medical Records System

  Syed Zain R. Rizvi, Philip W. L. Fong, Jason Crampton, James Sellwood
  SACMAT '15 Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, 2015
  Comment: 29% Acceptance Rate (17/59)

Teaching history

• CPSC 233 - Winter 2019 (Course content on D2L)
• ENSF 519 - Fall 2018 (Course content on D2L)
• CPSC 525 - Winter 2018
• CPSC 233 - Fall 2017
• CPSC 233 - Winter 2017 (Head TA)
• CPSC 525 - Fall 2016
• CPSC 102 - Fall 2016 (Instructor)
• CPSC 101 - Fall 2016 (Instructor)
• CPSC 413 - Winter 2016
• TA in Residence - Fall 2015
• CPSC 233 - Winter 2015 (Head TA)
• CPSC 233 - Fall 2014
• CPSC 329 - Winter 2014
• CPSC 233 - Fall 2013

Awards

Projects

• Here At UCalgary: A podcast series focusing on students from the University of Calgary and learning about who they are.
• Google Podcast
• Spotify
• Radio Public
• Attribute-Supporting ReBAC Model (AReBAC).
• Java Games Programming. A series of Java programming tutorials motivated by simple video games development.
• Video Recording and Editing for Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Science (PIMS) - University of Calgary.
• Paolo Mancosu. Paradoxes of the Infinite: Classic Themes and Recent Results. Dec 5, 2018.
• Jeremy Avigad. Philosophy of Mathematics as a Design Science. Mar 15, 2018.
• Michael Bennett. Diophantine equations for fun (and profit?). Sep 21, 2017.
• Emily Grosholz. Theory Reduction, Algebraic Number Theory, and the Complex Plane. Mar 16, 2017.
• Mariel Lavieri. Managing Patients with Chronic Conditions. Feb 23, 2017.
• Tamás Terlaky. Prison Guard’s Dilemma: Optimal Inmate Assignment by Multi-Objective MILO. Jan 10, 2017.
• Rob Deardon. Bayesian study design for nonlinear systems: an animal disease transmission experiment case study. May 3, 2016.
• Stewart Shapiro. Potential Infinity: A modal account. Mar 3, 2016.
• Ronald Graham. Juggling Mathematics & Magic. Sep 17, 2015.
• Steve Awodey. Univalence as a New Principle of Logic. Oct 2, 2014.
• Edward Doolittle. Native American Mathematics. Sep 18, 2014.
• Margot Gerritsen. How Does Google Google? Jan 17, 2013.
• Nicole Wyatt. Turing and Intelligent Machines. Dec 4, 2012.
• Chris Waters. Alan Turing, the Politics of Sexual Science, and the Making of a Gay Icon. Nov 6, 2012.
• Przemysław Prusinkiewicz. Alan Turing and the Patterns of Life. Oct 9, 2012.
• Ravi Vakil. Mathematics of Doodling. Oct 2, 2012.
• John R. Ferris. Alan Turing and Enigma. Mar 27, 2012.
• Michael R. Williams. Turing's Real Machines. Feb 28, 2012.
• Richard Zach. Alan Turing and the Decision Problem. Jan 24, 2012.
• OpenMRS-ReBAC - (Concluded)
• ReBAC Java Library - (Concluded)