Shahrooz Pouryousef

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). I build networked and distributed systems that remain secure and reliable under uncertainty and adversaries. My research follows two complementary threads:

• Secure & trustworthy AI agents: security and privacy of LLM agents and the infrastructure that serves them.
• Quantum networking & distributed quantum computing: entanglement distribution, quantum data centers, and robust quantum machine learning.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I am honored to have been advised by Professor Don Towsley. My work has appeared at IEEE S&P, USENIX NSDI, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Network, and PAM, and was recognized with a Best Paper Award at IEEE QCE 2023.

Saeefa Rubaiyet Nowmi, Jesus Lopez, Md Mahmudul Alam Imon, Shahrooz Pouryousef, Mohammad Saidur Rahman
➙ Critical Evaluation of Quantum Machine Learning for Adversarial Robustness
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P / Oakland) · 2026 [arXiv]

S. Pouryousef, J. Lopez, S. R. Nowmi, M. M. Kamol, M. Hossain, M. Tran, M. S. Rahman
➙ A Large-Scale Benchmark and Risk Assessment of Traffic Analysis Attacks on Cloud LLM Services
Preprint · arXiv:2609.31877 · 2026 [arXiv] [PDF]

I. Chanis, S. Pouryousef, M. Tran
➙ Adaptive Evasion of Tree-Based BGP Path Hijacking Detectors
ACM CCS · 2026 (Poster)

Shahrooz Pouryousef et al.
➙ Do LLMs Understand Collaborative Signals? Diagnosis and Repair
ACM CHIIR · 2026 [arXiv]

S. Pouryousef, L. Gao, A. Venkataramani
➙ Towards Logically Centralized Interdomain Routing
USENIX NSDI 2020 [USENIX] [PDF]

Shahrooz Pouryousef, Eneet Kaur, Hassan Shapourian, Don Towsley, Ramana Kompella, Reza Nejabati
➙ Benchmarking Quantum Data Center Architectures: A Performance and Scalability Perspective
IEEE Quantum Week (QCE) · 2026 [arXiv]

S. Pouryousef et al.
➙ A Quantum Overlay Network for Efficient Entanglement Distribution
IEEE INFOCOM 2023 [arXiv]

Leonardo Bacciottini, Matheus Guedes De Andrade, Shahrooz Pouryousef, Emily A. Van Milligen, Aparimit Chandra, Nitish K. Panigrahy, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Gayane Vardoyan, Don Towsley
➙ Leveraging Internet Principles to Build a Quantum Network
IEEE Network · 2025 [DOI]

Mahdi Chehimi, Shahrooz Pouryousef, Nitish K. Panigrahy, Don Towsley, Walid Saad
➙ Scaling Limits of Quantum Repeater Networks
IEEE QCE 2023 [arXiv] [DOI]
★ Best Paper Award, IEEE QCE 2023

Shahrooz Pouryousef, Hassan Shapourian, Alireza Shabani, Ramana Kompella, Don Towsley
➙ Resource Placement for Rate and Fidelity Maximization in Quantum Networks
IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering · 2024 [arXiv] [DOI]

Shahrooz Pouryousef, Reza Nejabati, Don Towsley, Ramana Kompella, Eneet Kaur
➙ Network-Aware Scheduling for Remote Gate Execution in Quantum Data Centers
Preprint · arXiv:2504.20176 · 2025 [arXiv]

My teaching experience includes serving as instructor for undergraduate computing courses and as a teaching assistant for networking and security courses.

• Saeefa Rubaiyet Nowmi — Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
• Jesus Lopez — M.S. student, Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
• Sohini Chakraborty — Master's student, Computer Science, Stockholm University (2026)

I have contributed to academic service through workshop organization, program committees, student representation, community-building, applicant mentoring, and peer review.