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Department of Computer Science and Technology

  • PhD Student

I am a PhD candidate at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge and my research focuses on analysing existing and emerging software  security threats and develop a software framework that allows developers to quickly and efficiently develop security solutions against these attacks. 

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I was the Chair of Women@CL from 2019-2021 and in the past held Cambridge chair for Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference

Teaching

I supervise following undergraduate courses within the Computer Science Tripos

Publications

Datasets

  • Arif, M., Ainsworth, S. and Jones, T., 2025. Research data supporting "Janitizer: Rethinking Binary Tools for Practical and Comprehensive Security"
    Doi: 10.17863/CAM.113967
  • Arif, M., Zhou, R., Ho, H. and Jones, TM., 2021. Research data supporting "Cinnamon: A Domain-Specific Language for Binary Profiling and Monitoring"
    Doi: 10.17863/CAM.62760
  • Conference proceedings

  • Arif, M., Zhou, R., Ho, HM. and Jones, TM., 2021. Cinnamon: A Domain-Specific Language for Binary Profiling and Monitoring CGO 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization,
    Doi: 10.1109/CGO51591.2021.9370313
  • Arif, M. and Vandierendonck, H., 2018. Reducing the burden of parallel loop schedulers for many-core processors Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming,
    Doi: 10.1145/3178487.3178517
  • Arif, M., Vandierendonck, H., Nikolopoulos, DS. and de Supinski, BR., 2016. A scalable and composable map-reduce system 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data),
    Doi: 10.1109/bigdata.2016.7840854
  • Vandierendonck, H., Murphy, K., Arif, M. and Nikolopoulos, DS., 2016. HPTA: High-performance text analytics 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data),
    Doi: 10.1109/bigdata.2016.7840632
  • Journal articles

  • Lee, J., Vandierendonck, H., Arif, M., Peterson, GD. and Nikolopoulos, DS., 2018. Energy-Efficient Iterative Refinement Using Dynamic Precision IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, v. 8
    Doi: 10.1109/jetcas.2018.2850665
  • Contact Details

    Room: 
    SC08
    Email: 

    ma843@cam.ac.uk