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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?" - George Bernard Shaw Assalam-o-alaikum, I am an Assistant Professor at FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) - Islamabad Campus. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from University Of Southern California (USC) in 2009 with the dissertation title Understanding and Exploiting the Acoustic Propagation Delay in Underwater Sensor Networks under the supervision of John Heidemann. I am the director of Systems and Networks (SysNet) Lab and also lead the Botnet Security Group (BSG) as PI for an ICTRDF funded project on botnet research. My primary interest is to help develop an energy-transference architecture for wireless sensor networks. I am also currently involved in underwater sensor networks, network time-synchronization, high-latency medium access control design, and industrial wireless-mesh networking. My new interest is in the area of Software Defined Network (SDN), malware detection, and distributed systems design and implementation.

Curriculum Vitae:

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Recent Updates (but infrequently updated):

1. Gave a seminar at LUMS titled "From Sensornets to Botnets: Sampling the Spectrum of Systems Research", which provided a broad overview of the research happening at the SysNet lab.
2. Our inital work on botnet security research has been recognized by the community in the form of a poster "Bottleneck: A Generalized, Flexible, and Extensible Framework for Botnet Defense ", at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. This syposium, also more famous as Oakland, is the top publication location in the area of Computer Security and is therefore a great privelige to get our inital idea validated over here. The poster can be found in the publication page.
3. We recently (December 2011) got a grant for botnet security research accepted from ICTRDF. More details on the website of the group,Botnet Security Group (BSG), formed for completing this project.
4. My paper on "Steam-powered Sensing" got accepted at Sensys 2011. It was one of 24 selected at this highly selective conference, with more thatn 300 submission every year. This work was part of my post-doctoral research at USC/ISI and was co-authored by Chengjie Zhang. Will put a revised manuscript after we have a camera ready version prepared. (Jul 2011)
5. I was the only teacher representative from Pakistan to attend the Red Hat workshop for teaching open source, POSSE, arranged at CMU-Qatar in Jan 2011. (Jan 2011)

Interests:

1. Cricket (of course... I am a Pakistani after all), Squash (even got a scar on my chin , thanks to ....,to prove it), Tennis , Badminton (love playing this game), Basket Ball, Swimming.

2. Movies, specially the pure adrenaline pumping action adventure, ones. But my favorites are mostly not from the pure action genre e.g. : BraveHeart,  Dead man walking, Lord of the Rings, Matrix 1, Scarface.

3. I love to travel, as the numerous pictures above will testify, and appreciate the beauty of nature and human architecture. I have been in USA for just 2 years now (gosh.. it seems to have gone by so quickly) and have already visited the following places: Los Angeles (duh!!!), San Franciso, Yosemite, San Diego, Santa Barbra, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, Laughlin, Grand Canyon, Boston, Cape Cod, New York, Matha's Vineyard, Dallas, College Station, Houston, Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Key West.

4. Intellectual discourse about the meaning of our lives, politics, us and Islam - about once every month. 

5. Books - all types. fiction (Ludlum, Cussler, Archer, Clancy), Science fiction (Dune), historical (Sword of Allah, Guns, Germs and Steel), classics (Illiad, Much ado about nothing).

BTW:

    If you want to check out another Website that I helped create check out this link Pakistanis@USC . If you are a Pakistani student or a prospective one, register over there to get tons of information(edit: I think this website is no longer functional, sorry). Also here is a modified DSR for glomosim that allows you to enable disable caching.

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