Mohsen Shirali

Short bio

I received both my Ph.D. (2025) and M.Sc. (2013) degrees in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran. My research has primarily focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), data analytics, process mining, and security and privacy. Since August 2026, I have been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), KU Leuven, Belgium.

From July 2024 to July 2026, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at ICTEAM, UCLouvain, where my research focused on anomaly detection, time-series analysis, system modelling, and digital twins for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Previously, I served as a research assistant at the LIRIS group at KU Leuven (2023-2024) and the Chair of IT-Security at the University of Passau, Germany (2019-2020). I have also served as a lecturer at SBU and Ahvaz Sama University. Alongside my academic career, I have several years of industrial experience as a Research and Development (R&D) specialist. I have been awarded scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT), and I have authored multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aug 2026 - Present
Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), KU Leuven (Belgium)
  • Research Topics: Machine Learning, Language Models, IoT, Multimodality
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Jul 2024 - Jul 2026
    ICTEAM, UCLouvain (Belgium)
    • Research Project: Robustness in Complex Systems
    • Topics: ML-based anomaly detection, time-series analysis, system modelling, digital twins

    Researcher

    Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
    Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), KU Leuven (Belgium)
    • Using process mining in multimodal IoT systems

    Lead Researcher & Head of Network Architecture Group

    Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
    5G Research Group, Shahid Beheshti University (Iran)
    • Radio Access Network (RAN) deployment requirements for 5G
    • Architectures: central/distributed/edge/cloud; joint project with MCI

    R&D Specialist

    Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
    Arad Company (Iran)
    • Agile software design & development
    • Software architecture (conceptual and physical design)
    • Led an IoT-related project to integrate sensorial data

    Research Assistant & Visiting Researcher

    Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
    Chair of IT-Security, University of Passau (Germany)
    • Security and privacy of IoT and smart homes

    Lecturer

    2012 - 2022
    Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) & Ahvaz Sama University (Iran)
    • Teaching and project supervision (undergraduate & postgraduate)

    Education

    Ph.D. in Computer Engineering — Computer Architecture

    Sep 2015 - Jul 2025
    Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

    Thesis: An energy-efficient and privacy-preserving IoT-based solution for mental healthcare applications

    M.Sc. in Computer Engineering — Computer Architecture (Distinction)

    Sep 2011 - Nov 2013
    Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

    Thesis: A Novel Group Key Management Scheme for Using Broadcast Encryption in WSNs

    B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Distinction)

    Sep 2006 - Sep 2010
    Islamic Azad University, Tehran-North Branch, Tehran, Iran

    Thesis: Introducing Industrial Network Standards, Protocols and Applications

    Selected Publications

    • Synergy of Information in Multimodal Internet of Things Systems— Discovering the Impact of Daily Behaviour Routines on Physical Activity Level Sensors (MDPI) (2025) — DOI: 10.3390/s25185619
    • Context-Enriched Process Discovery from IoT Data Sources for Human Behavioral Monitoring PoEM 2025Best Paper Award — DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-12063-2_14
    • An Interactive Error-correcting Approach for IoT-sourced Event LogsACM Transactions on Internet of Things (2024) — DOI: 10.1145/3680289
    • LLM-based Event Abstraction and Integration for IoT-sourced LogsBP-Meet-IoT @ BPM (2024) — DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78666-2_11
    • A Survey on Anonymous Communication Systems with a Focus on Dining Cryptographers Networks IEEE Access (2023) — DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3242870

    Projects

    Critical Embedded Systems in Intelligent, Trustworthy and Sustainable Transport

    2025-2026

    Robustness in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

    2024-2026

    ML-based Nitrate Reduction Front Prediction in Flanders

    2023–2024

    Radio Access Network Architectures of 5G Cellular Networks

    2022-2023

    Administrative IoT-based System for Agriculture Management

    2020–2022

    Interactive Process Mining for Behaviour Modelling

    2018–2024

    DCN-based Anonymous Communication for Privacy Preservation of IoT Devices

    2019–2023

    Awards and Achievements

    2025

    Best Paper Award

    The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2025)

    Best Paper Award for "Context-Enriched Process Discovery from IoT Data Sources for Human Behavioral Monitoring, December 2025"

    2019

    DAAD scholarship

    Short-Term Research Grant

    Research stay at University of Passau, 1/10/2019–31/3/2020

    2019

    MSRT scholarship

    Six-Month scholarship

    Research stay at University of Passau, 1/04/2019–30/09/2019

    2020

    Patent

    Innovative neurofeedback system for cognitive rehabilitation of ADHD

    Patent IR-10052, issued Jan 2020

    2022

    Certificate

    Process Mining: Data Science in Action

    Eindhoven University of Technology (Coursera), Aug 2022

    2022

    Certificate

    Process Mining — From Theory to Execution

    Celonis Academy, Jun 2022

    Contact

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