Known as the top Iranian hacker, Abbas has 10+ years of information security background. He has developed many open source tools and is currently doing PhD research on information security at University of Virginia. He is OWASP chapter leader of Iran, leader of many active OWASP projects (such as "OWASP PHP Security”), and an active security researcher. More about him can be found at https://abiusx.com/cv. Mandana also does graduate research in information security, and has a few years of background in it. She is currently working on distributed systems and cloud security. This young couple run two startups, contribute regularly to the open source world, and enjoy geeky talks at dinner.
