AI for Cybersecurity
Developing machine learning and language-model-based methods to understand software behavior and support security analysis.
Machine learning · Language models · Software security
Software security · Machine learning
MohammadhosseinAmouei
PhD Candidate / McGill University
I study how machine learning can help us understand and secure software when source code is unavailable.
I am a PhD candidate at McGill University, supervised by Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung. My research brings together software reverse engineering, natural language processing, and representation learning.
I focus on binary code similarity: identifying related functions across compilers, optimization settings, and architectures. My broader interests include language models for code and learning-guided vulnerability discovery.
Research directions
Program Analysis and Reverse Engineering
Analyzing source code and binaries to recover program semantics and identify related code across compilers, optimization settings, and architectures.
Binary analysis · Program understanding · Code similarity
Automated Vulnerability Detection
Detecting vulnerabilities in source code and binaries through program analysis, learned representations, and code similarity.
Vulnerability discovery · Vulnerability matching
Software Supply Chain Security
Investigating code provenance, third-party dependencies, and the propagation of known vulnerabilities across reused software components.
Code provenance · Dependency analysis · Software reuse
Selected publications
All publications2026
FIN: Boosting Binary Code Embedding by Normalizing Function Inlinings
JSSJournal of Systems and Software
Improving binary code embeddings by addressing the structural effects of function inlining.
BibTeX
@article{fin2026,
title = {{FIN: Boosting Binary Code Embedding by Normalizing Function Inlinings}},
author = {Mohammadhossein Amouei and Benjamin C. M. Fung and Philippe Charland},
year = {2026},
journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
volume = {231},
pages = {112603},
doi = {10.1016/j.jss.2025.112603}
}
2026
LENA: Llama-based Embeddings of Neutralized Assembly for Cross-compiler/optimization Binary Code Similarity Detection
IEEE TSEIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Llama-based representations for matching binary functions across compilers and optimization levels.
BibTeX
@article{lena2026,
title = {{LENA: Llama-based Embeddings of Neutralized Assembly for Cross-compiler/optimization Binary Code Similarity Detection}},
author = {Mohammadhossein Amouei and Benjamin C. M. Fung and Philippe Charland and Jun Meng},
year = {2026},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
pages = {1--24},
doi = {10.1109/TSE.2026.3705321}
}
2024
AsmDocGen: Generating Functional Natural Language Descriptions for Assembly Code
ICSOFTInternational Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT)
Generating natural-language descriptions of assembly functions with pretrained language models.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{asmdocgen2024,
title = {{AsmDocGen: Generating Functional Natural Language Descriptions for Assembly Code}},
author = {Jesia Yuki and Mohammadhossein Amouei and Benjamin C. M. Fung and Philippe Charland and Andrew Walenstein},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT)},
pages = {35--45},
doi = {10.5220/0012761400003753}
}
2022
RAT: Reinforcement-Learning-Driven and Adaptive Testing for Vulnerability Discovery in Web Application Firewalls
IEEE TDSCIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Reinforcement learning and adaptive search for testing web application firewalls.
BibTeX
@article{rat2022,
title = {{RAT: Reinforcement-Learning-Driven and Adaptive Testing for Vulnerability Discovery in Web Application Firewalls}},
author = {Mohammadhossein Amouei and Mohsen Rezvani and Mansoor Fateh},
year = {2022},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
volume = {19},
number = {5},
doi = {10.1109/TDSC.2021.3095417}
}
Teaching
Programming for Information Professionals
INFS 691 · Instructor · McGill University
Education
PhD in Information Studies
McGill University
2022–presentMSc in Computer Science
Shahrood University of Technology
2018–2021BSc in Information Technology
Shahrood University of Technology
2014–2018Get in touch
For research collaborations or questions about my work, please contact me by email.