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General Information

Full Name Amir Al Sadi
Email Academic a.al-sadi@imperial.ac.uk; private enquiries alsadi.amir@gmail.com
Languages English, Italian

Work

  • 2025-now
    Postdoctoral Researcher, NetSys group
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    • C3Infer - built Mica, a platform for confidential and sandboxed AI workflows
      • AISI-funded project to run secure multi-component AI inference pipelines by restricting and attesting communication between confidential components.
      • Designed and developed Mica across the host-to-CVM stack on Arm CCA, including kernel modifications, QEMU emulation, the secure monitor in the EL2 Arm stack, and an OpenCCA performance embedded board.

Education

  • 2022-2025
    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    • Thesis in Programmable Data Plane for Network Security.
  • 2019-2021
    MSc Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    • Thesis in Link Delay Measurement using P4.
  • 2016-2019
    BSc Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    • Thesis in Cloud integration of OT plants.

Experience

  • 2023-2024
    Visiting Ph.D. Student
    University College London, London, UK
    • Carried out a project to detect pulse-wave attacks using a programmable data plane.
    • Supervised by Prof. Stefano Vissicchio.
  • 2019-2020
    Visiting MSc Student
    University California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
    • Winner of a scholarship for a semester abroad.
    • Fully funded by UCEAP.

Awards

  • 2023
    Merit Scholarship
    • Winner of an Italian government scholarship of 2000€ for study merits, from INPS.
  • 2019
    Overseas Scholarship
    • Winner of Unibo scholarship of 350€/month and fully paid fees for a semester at the University of California, Riverside.
  • 2018
    Merit Scholarship
    • Winner of Unibo scholarship of 1300€ for study merits.

Certifications

  • 2024
    Global Talent Visa
    • UKRI accelerated endorsement for the Global Talent Visa.
    • Awarded by the British Home Office.
  • 2018
    English certification
    • IELTS certification, Europass level C1.
    • Awarded by British Council, IDP, and Cambridge Assessment English.