Mohsen Shirali

Short bio

I received my Ph.D. (2025) and M.Sc. (2013) in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran. My research focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare, emphasizing system architecture, privacy, data analytics, and process mining. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLouvain, working on anomaly detection in Cyber-Physical Systems. I previously held research positions at KU Leuven (2023–2024) and the University of Passau (2019–2020), and I have lectured at SBU and Ahvaz Sama University. In addition to academia, I have several years of R&D experience in industry. I have received scholarships from DAAD and Iran’s MSRT and have published in journals and conferences. My interests include IoT, data science, security and privacy, anonymous communication, and process mining.

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Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jul 2024 – Present
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 — MDPI Sensors (2025) — DOI: 10.3390/s25185619
  • An Interactive Error-correcting Approach for IoT-sourced Event Logs — ACM Trans. Internet Things (2024) — DOI: 10.1145/3680289
  • A Survey on Anonymous Communication Systems with a Focus on Dining Cryptographers Networks — IEEE Access (2023) — DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3242870
  • LLM-based event abstraction and integration for IoT-sourced logs — BP-Meet-IoT @ BPM (2024)
  • Identifying Variation in Personal Daily Routine Through Process Mining: A Case Study — PODS4H @ ICPM (2023)
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Projects

Robustness in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

2024–2025

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
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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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